This past week I worked on my second goal primarily of turning my website into a strong resource for the students and parents. I have begun to create a survey and used information that I obtained during parent teaching conferences. A main theme during conferences parents inquired multiple times how they could help build their child's comprehension. (This is the component of the DRA assessment that keeps many students from meeting grade level expectations.) To respond to this request I placed some links to articles and other helpful information. I have already see this to be an effective action because students have come to tell me that they were on my website with their parents.
One thing I learned though is that many parents did not even realize what my website had on it, despite the fact that I gave the address out at Back to School Night and telling/showing the students frequently. One thing I am considering doing in my instructional practices to help alleviate this is to occassionally incorporate my website into homework assignments. One way I can do this would be along the lines of "Use the US Census Data to answer the following questions. The link to the information is on the my website." This way the parents and students would be visiting the site regulary and seeing the additions and changes I make.
I have not really had any new questions in regards to my website development at this point. I also do not see the need to alter my GAME plan until I get the surveys out and gather the feedback from the students and their families.
Here is the address of my school website if you are curious. Suggestions and comments welcome! http://www.nplainfield.org/14912092201835780/site/default.asp?
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Your initiative in getting parents involved in the learning of their children has worked well. This is a great challenge and you seem to have succeeded from looking at the response you are getting from your students. I very much wanted to look at your website but for some reason, unable to view it. I would also like to try something like this in my class but am not sure how responsive the parents would be.
ReplyDeleteThe link I posted is working for me... but you can try these steps to find it if you are interested.
ReplyDeletewww.nplainfield.org
In the top left corner is a drop down menu... select West End School
Select the link West End Staff and under M is the link to my site. Moscatello, Christina, K-4