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Academic Activity Seminar for Parents

Join a seminar to explore InSync Education for academic assistance in core subjects. Learn strategies and try activities to aid your child's learning. Understand how to navigate the library of resources and engage effectively in your child's education.

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Academic Activity Seminar for Parents

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  1. Academic Activity Seminar for Parents [insert presenter name Name of school Date and time]

  2. Welcome and Introductions

  3. Objectives • share successes and challenges of helping your child with schoolwork • learn how to use InSync Education to find academic resources in all four core subjects • try out four academic activities that you can do at home with your child

  4. Discuss • How do you currently help your child with schoolwork? • What strategies have you found to be successful? Unsuccessful?

  5. Overview of InSync Education • InSync Education is a web-based library of resources in Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies for our parents. • We chose this system because it’s easy to use, developed specifically for parents, and aligns to our instruction. • You can learn more about InSync Education at: • www.insyncedu.com

  6. Key Features InSync Education has four key features: • Activities in four core subjects • Math • Science • Language Arts • Social Studies • Searchable • Standards-based • Available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole languages

  7. Signing Up for InSync Education • Go to http://www.insyncedu.com/insync • Enter your District Code: ENTER CODE HERE • Create your username/password and set your preferences • Click Create your Account to login. * After the initial sign-up you can login with the username/password you selected

  8. Logging In • How do I log into InSync Education? • How do I stay logged into InSync Education? • What if I forgot my password?

  9. Conducting Searches Search for resources in InSync Education in four ways: • by searchingkeywords • by searching Common Core Standards • by browsing an index of resources

  10. Discuss • Does your son or daughter struggle with any specific topics? • Is there a particular subject that your son or daughter finds especially difficult?

  11. Searching by Keywords • Keywords could anything from a topic, to a grade level, to a subject.

  12. Viewing Resources • Overviews • Activities • Additional Resources • Favorites • Print Screen • Print All

  13. Discuss Imagine that your 11-year-old son or daughter was having trouble in math class dividing numbers and a big test was coming up. What would you do?

  14. Viewing the Index Lists all resources in InSync Education by subject and grade. Sorts resources by: • Resource number • Grade • Category (type of resource) • Title

  15. Printing Resources and Favorites • How do I print a resource? • How do I save a resource I want to use later? • How do I see resources I’ve added to favorites?

  16. Discuss • What do you like about InSync Education? • How do you think InSync Education could help you? • What do you want to learn more about?

  17. Activity Stations Station 1: Reading/Language Arts Activity Station 2: Math Activity Station 3: Science Activity Station 4: Social Studies/History Activity

  18. Questions?

  19. Contact Information [contact information of parent trainer]

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