Connecting Learning:

At Home and School

This café conversation is designed to help parents reinforce their role as their ‘child’s first teacher’ through an opportunity for parents to:

• explore their role in reinforcing their child’s learning at home throughout their schooling.
• explore the connections between play and home activities with the key learning areas at school.
• highlight their strengths and talents and the learning that takes place when sharing these gifts with their children.

Parent leaders and educators will find a thought provoking question to inspire parent conversation, followed by discussion points that can be used to add to and further stimulate the conversation. It is Cafe’s experience that together most parents, given the opportunity, will raise many of the suggested discussion points. In this way the capacity of the group is built, while highlighting collective wisdom. The questions have been designed to lead from one to another but remember this is meant only as a guide to conversation. All of the questions may not be needed to reach the goals of the conversation and your conversation may naturally follow a different path.

For facilitators leading a conversation Café,  the conversation guide below is presented in a Power Point, 2 slides/page format, that permits easy reference between questions and suggested discussion points.

Connecting Learning at Home and School – Conversation Guide

The following set of notes provides additional information for facilitators leading the Café, or parents wishing to delve further into the topic. Each page of information corresponds to one question from the conversation guide.

Connecting home and school facilitator notes

 

Connecting Learning at Home and School:  Accompanying Resources

These suggested quality resources are a starting point to guide parents in making connections with schools and community organizations and institutions working to provide support for learning. Resources are organized in the order they appear and are suggested throughout the conversation notes.  Café graciously accepts suggestions of additional quality resources focusing on the parent-school partnership.  Do you have a resource to share?

Connecting Learning home and school resources