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Classroom Teachers as Parent Educators

Explore Epstein's six types of parent involvement: Parenting, Communicating, Volunteering, Learning at Home, Decision Making, and Collaborating with the Community. Learn how teachers can support families, promote home-school partnerships, and foster a conducive learning environment. Discover effective communication tools, volunteer engagement methods, and ways to involve parents in decision-making processes. Enhance parent-teacher collaboration for the benefit of students and the community.

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Classroom Teachers as Parent Educators

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  1. Classroom Teachers as Parent Educators Joyce Epstein Johns Hopkins Univ

  2. Epstein's Six Types of Parent Involvement • Type 1 - Parenting • Type 2 - Communicating • Type 3 – Volunteering • Type 4 - Learning at Home • Type 5 - Decision Making • Type 6 - Collaborating With The Community

  3. Epstein's Type 1 - Parenting: • Support families in their role as parents and assist with child-rearing skills. • Help parents to understand stages of child and adolescent development. • Promote a home environment that supports children at each age and grade level. • Help schools to appreciate all families.

  4. Type 2 - Communicating: • Use effective communication tools to relate school events, policy and student progress, thus strengthen school and home partnerships.

  5. Type 3 - Volunteering • Develop recruitment and training activities, and provide flexible schedules that engage families as volunteers, and as audiences at school and community events.

  6. Type 4 - Learning at Home: • Help parents to be involved in learning activities with their children at home, including homework and other related activities.

  7. Type 5 - Decision Making: • Encourage families to participate in school decisions, and in advocacy through PTA/PTO, school councils, committees, and other parent organizations.

  8. Type 6 - Collaborating With The Community: • Coordinate resources and services for families, students, and the school with businesses, agencies, and other groups, and provide services to the community.

  9. Epstein's Six Types of Parent Involvement • Type 1 - Parenting • Type 2 - Communicating • Type 3 – Volunteering • Type 4 - Learning at Home • Type 5 - Decision Making • Type 6 - Collaborating With The Community

  10. Classroom Teachers as Parent Educators

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