It is research based that having a constant connection between school and home improves children's results. It helps teachers to get information about their students backgrounds and acting consequently, adapting their daily work to them. The situation at home is going to affect kids perfoming in class in a certain way, so i think that it is crucial to be informed about it for the child's benefit.
Working together (family and school) will create a synergy in the students learning that will increase their possibilities of acquiring knowledge. Linking the 2 most important worlds of kids will surely motivate them and make them feel secure and protected. Additionally, showing what they do in the English class (or in the others) will help them to absorb and memorize the content, besides of making them feel proud of their own work and evolution. If children explain at home their class experiencies, parents can give their oppinions of our work as teachers and children can send them to us. It is also an invitation to parents to participate in their son's learning, seeing them as partners in this exiting work that is teaching.
In conclusion, what children learn in school (including English) hasn't have to end in the classroom. The more we promote the putting into practice of the acquired knowledge the more we will be fostering children's personal enrichement and learning.
I have read your entry Helena and found it very insightful. I especially love the image you have chosen to show the relationship between teachers, students and parents. Did you make it yourself?
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