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Academic Activity Seminar for Parents. [insert presenter name Name of school Date and time]. Welcome and Introductions. 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
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Academic Activity Seminar for Parents [insert presenter name Name of school Date and time]
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
Discuss • How do you currently help your child with schoolwork? • What strategies have you found to be successful? Unsuccessful?
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
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
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
Logging In • How do I log into InSync Education? • How do I stay logged into InSync Education? • What if I forgot my password?
Conducting Searches Search for resources in InSync Education in four ways: • by searchingkeywords • by searching Common Core Standards • by browsing an index of resources
Discuss • Does your son or daughter struggle with any specific topics? • Is there a particular subject that your son or daughter finds especially difficult?
Searching by Keywords • Keywords could anything from a topic, to a grade level, to a subject.
Viewing Resources • Overviews • Activities • Additional Resources • Favorites • Print Screen • Print All
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?
Viewing the Index Lists all resources in InSync Education by subject and grade. Sorts resources by: • Resource number • Grade • Category (type of resource) • Title
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?
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?
Activity Stations Station 1: Reading/Language Arts Activity Station 2: Math Activity Station 3: Science Activity Station 4: Social Studies/History Activity
Contact Information [contact information of parent trainer]