Character Education: How Do You Involve Parents And Guardians? getting Help from the School. Some parents/guardians need confidence and initiativeto seek advice on important role a parent can play is simply to be involved. http://www.ethics.org/character/printable_involve.html
Extractions: How Do You Involve Parents and Guardians? I. Whose Responsibility? A common plea heard throughout the nation is that we must put our "Children First!" That is, first in consideration for school funding, after school programs and physical protection. Politicians have been among the earliest converts to this type of thinking, as evident in the frequency with which the "educating for the future" and "Children First" epitaphs are used during election campaigns. Unfortunately, these notions are premised on the assumption that parents/guardians, as well as educators, already have all the tools needed in order to teach children how to be successful, safe and well-behaved students. For example, many parents/guardians believe strongly that no one has the right or the obligation to teach morality to others, especially to their children, citing freedom of expression and fear of excessive governmental intrusion as key motivators. While people of good intention disagree on whether these concerns are valid, the fact remains that parents/guardians believe (and rightly so) that the job of teaching children right from wrong is theirs. However, parents/guardians have a hard enough time juggling work, family obligations and the often ill-fated attempts at maintaining a social life, that they are already struggling to keep up with the "responsibility" of helping their children with homework, teaching them about sex, AIDS and drugs. And most importantly, it is probably an understatement to say that parents/guardians struggle to find the time (and techniques) to "consciously" teach their children character and moral development.
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Getting Schools Ready: Strategies For Success getting Schools Ready for Children The Other Side of the who are kept well informedand involved can provide The skepticism and suspicion of parents who are http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1994/sreb-gsr/stratsuc.html
Extractions: The Other Side of the Readiness Goal Strategies for Success The idea that schools have a responsibility to meet the needs of all children raises an obvious question. If age is the best criterion for school entry, and grade retention is not a viable option for most children, what can be done to help children who are less ready for school than their peers? The answer to that question is, there is a great deal we can do. In a recent article in the journal Educational Leadership, Robert Slavin and colleagues reviewed research on the effects of various programs designed to prevent early school failure. They concluded that .... a growing body of evidence refutes the proposition that school failure is inevitable for any but the most retarded children. Further, the programs and practices that, either alone or in combination, have the strongest evidence of effectiveness for preventing school failure for virtually all students are currently available and replicable. None of them is exotic or radical. In their review of early intervention programs at the primary school level, Slavin and his colleagues focused on prevention of early reading failure. They found that one strategy stood out clearly from all others in terms of effectiveness – one-to-one tutoring, beginning in the first grade, for children identified as having reading problems. They concluded that "All forms of tutoring were more effective than any other first grade reading strategy," but those which used certified teachers as tutors were most beneficial.
Fsunews.com - Parents Notified Of Underage Drinking vote, then I should be able to do what I want and deal with the consequences withoutgetting my parents involved. . We work with students to teach them how http://www.fsunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/06/03/3cfae5130df7c
Extractions: The Independent Twice Weekly Student Newspaper Covering The Florida State University Front Page News Lifestyles Arts and Entertainment ... Archives Search News options NEWS Capitol Corner Colleges across the country tighten security, plan for emergencies Colleges turning to other ways of encouraging diversity FSU College of Medicine launches new center ... New system to track foreign students doesn't work, colleges say In hopes of cutting down on underage drinking, Florida State University implemented the Parent Notification Policy to inform parents of underage drinkers when they violate the law. The policy was instituted right before the Board of Regents was abolished and replaced by a new Board. "Students under the age of 21 are subject to the parent/guardian notification policy (if caught drinking)," states a memorandum to deans, directors and department heads from Talbot D'Alemberte, president of Florida State University.
National PTA: Common Sense: Parent's Tip Sheet: Get Involved way to share ideas with other parents about being Get involved Quiz How Would YourChild Answer? A video clip about getting involved (school); A Common Sense http://www.pta.org/commonsense/4_family/429_getinvtips.html
Extractions: You may view this page as a PDF . It looks nicer and you can print it too! You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Tip sheet: 10 Steps to Get Involved! Children who have strong bonds with their families and school are least at risk of using alcohol and other drugs. Many of the things we can do to strengthen these bonds such as showing warmth and affection are based on common sense. You may find these ideas helpful in strengthening existing bonds and even creating new bonds with your children. 1. Be a good listener. Let your children know they can always come to you with their problems. Show respect for your children's concerns. Establish eye contact with your child when he or she is talking to you. If you are reading or working on an activity, set it aside so your child will have your full attention. Offer encouragement to help your children share ideas and ask questions.
Safe Surfing - Safety Tips For Parents It starts with our own Tips for parents and Carers getting involved Learn as muchas you can about getting 'Gifts' Unsolicited 'gifts' can contain offensive or http://www.iwf.org.uk/safe_surfing/parents_tips.html
Extractions: document.write(''); Safety Tips For Parents As in the real world, the first line of defence is learning how to behave to keep out of trouble. This section takes you through good practices for all the family. It starts with our own Tips for Parents and Carers on this page (with more detail behind each tip) and then takes you through to our links page where you can find more online resources. Getting Involved Learn as much as you can about the Internet yourself. Surfing should be a family activity, so use the Internet together as often as you can and discuss any problems you encounter. Keep the computer in a room where the whole family can use it. Getting In Touch Get to know who your children are meeting online and make sure they are wary of strangers and never give out any personal information about themselves. Be particularly careful about children using chat rooms. Go through the SMART rules at the "Tips for Children" section of this Web site. Getting Around Keep an eye on the kind of material your children are looking at and make sure that they go to the sites that you want them to see and not to the ones that you don't. Consider using some of the filtering tools that are available to help you.
Extractions: Professional Development Center Archives: VIEW ALL ARTICLES ... Internet Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E The third article in our Getting Started series focuses on simple searching. Teacher Tammy Payton's first graders are the super-est searchers around! Her "easy-as-ABC" project can work at any grade level. Included Ideas for searching across the grades and the curriculum! It's hard to believe that one day, not long ago, Tammy Payton was in the same place a lot of teachers find themselves today. The computer had just arrived in her classroom and she didn't know where to begin! It's hard for Payton to believe too! "I was just getting a handle on how to integrate the computer into my classroom curriculum when they came along and told me that I was also going to have Internet access," says Payton, a teacher at Loogootee Elementary West in Loogootee, Indiana. "I wasn't ready . . . I was overwhelmed!"
Education World ® : Curriculum: Character Education Getting A Boost Character Education getting a Boost. grant for the past three years and involved severalschools in parents and community members are working with teachers to http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr282.shtml
Extractions: Professional Development Center Archives: ... Special Education and Guidance Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E Some schools that received federal funding to pilot character education programs are now going to their state legislatures or local communities to continue them. Included: Links to character education resources from Utah and New Jersey. Encouraging results from federally funded pilot character education programs have prompted some educators to request and receive state funding to continue the efforts. And when legislators did not approve money in some states, school districts have supported the efforts on their own. "There seems to be a great demand for [character education] in the local school districts," according to Kathleen Plato, program supervisor for character education for the Washington State Office of Public Instruction "The key is to have the community buy into it ask the community what character education is, and try to integrate it into the curriculum." Does your school system have a character education program? What kind of results have you seen from these programs? Do you think these programs should be funded by the state? Share your thoughts on an
America Links Up | Grassroots Pamphlet This will help keep you involved while your child is for using the Internet and keeptheir parents up to about myself or my family without getting permission. http://www.getnetwise.org/americalinksup/planyourown/grassroots.html
Extractions: The online world is no longer optional for our children. It has become an increasingly essential component of all of our lives, and our children will be the primary beneficiaries of the vast resources it has to offer. Already, kids across the country use the Internet everyday to research subjects for school and for fun and to communicate with their friends and family. From this, they are developing lifelong learning skills. At the same time, however, ensuring that this new medium is rewarding and safe for our kids is an ongoing challenge. America Links Up will help parents, teachers and all caregivers understand the benefits of this medium, the challenges associated with it and the resources available to address those challenges. This campaign fulfills the commitment made by the participants of the Internet-Online Summit: Focus on Children in December 1997. The campaign reflects the consensus that making the Internet a safe and rewarding place for our children is a responsibility shared by the entire Internet community from industry to parents, from teachers to government, from law enforcement to librarians. What is it?
E-Kit Contents - Drop-In Article When it comes to emergency preparedness, getting tips out Most parents feel they areprepared for emergencies happened, where it happened and who is involved. http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/child/drop-inarticle.html
Extractions: They can't all belong to someone else. Emergencies happen. It could be a fall from a bike...a sudden high fever or seizure...a pot knocked from the stove. What if your child started choking during dinner? What if she was stung by a bee and suddenly couldn't breathe? Would you know what to do? The American Academy of Pediatrics notes that an emergency exists if you think your child could die or suffer permanent harm unless care is received right away. Most parents feel they are prepared for emergencies because they know when and how to call 9-1-1. But often, that isn't enough. Your child may need care before emergency medical service personnel arrive. And being prepared can assure your child isn't further harmed by doing the wrong thing. The Emergency Medical Services for Children, a program of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, has 10 tips to help you be better prepared...because no matter how hard you try to protect your children-emergencies happen.
Now What Do I Do? us do not like all of the messages our children are getting. to help them learn whatis involved in healthy is most important is that you, as parents, are able http://www.siecus.org/parent/now/now0000.html
Extractions: Home Search Site Navigation Contact Us ... Guest Book This booklet is for you - parents of children ages 10-12. This is a confusing time for your pre-teen children. Their bodies are changing, their friends are becoming more important, their thoughts and feelings are growing more mature, and they are getting more interested in sexual topics. SEXUALITY Sexuality is part of our entire being; it is not just what we do with our genitals. It includes all those things in a person's life that relate to being a boy or a girl, a woman or a man. It is shaped not only by our bodies and our feelings, but also by our culture and religion. Parents are the ideal sexuality educators for their own children. Once upon a time parents could sit a pre-teen child down to have "THE TALK." They would explain the wonder, mystery, delight, joy - and perhaps the dangers - of sexuality. Perhaps the child was hearing about sexual matters for the first time. If that time ever existed, it no longer does. Books, magazines, radio, TV, movies, music videos, advertising, computers - and, of course, their friends -all teach our children about sexuality. And most of us do not like all of the messages our children are getting. Parents want to talk with their children. And children want to hear from their parents.
Who Can Help of Health, consistently shows that children with parents who stayed involved intheir MayoClinic.com Alcohol Abuse and Addiction getting treatment . http://www.saferchild.org/whocan.htm
Extractions: Who Can Help With Substance Abuse You Can Help Your Children: Get Them Involved: Get your children involved in activities that don't accommodate substance abuse. For suggestions, go to: Safer Child Parents of Teens Page Safer Child Teens in the Community Page Safer Child Mentoring Page Parents: The Anti-Drug for more suggestions Go to Top Show 'em that you love 'em: Tell and show your children - even while still toddlers - that they are beautiful and capable people who mean the world to you, whose company you enjoy and whose opinion you value. We believe and research confirms that such ongoing affirmation of their self-worth, and attention to their needs, will go a long way toward preventing dangerous, self-abusive, or violent problems as teen-agers. Go to Top Children respond when their parents take time Some parents believe that "kids will be kids," regardless of what parents do or say. But research, including a report from the National Institutes of Health consistently shows that children with parents who stayed involved in their children's lives talking with them, attending their activities, listening to their problems were less likely to engage in harmful activities like drinking, drugs and smoking.
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Responding To Temper Tantrums Attention tantrums are special performances that keep parents involved in tryingto stop the Give them a suggestion for getting your attention in a positive way http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/tips2.htm
Extractions: Power tantrums are the result of children not getting what they want. Parents often feel their only options are to give in or argue, which are both counterproductive. Instead, recognize the child's disappointment at not being able to control the limits. Then shift the focus to what the child can control, by offering choices within the limits you've set. For example, "I know you'd like to have a cookie before dinner. If you're hungry, you can either have a carrot or some grapes." If the child still tries to influence you with a tantrum, restate the choices once, then disengage from the power struggle and ignore any further tantrum behavior.
IS Group Meeting Minutes 11/7/00 some discussion with Marion Clair about the difficulties involved with getting studentphotos us about the very supportive committee of some parents and a http://depts.washington.edu/global/is/minutes/minutes_110700.html
Extractions: Marion Clair AGENDA: 2. JSIS/LATONA UPDATES - Karen Kodama, principal Publicity Karen says the school has had lots of visibility, and some inconvenience and controversy, from press and public, including a visit from local news and the Dr. Laura show (show to be broadcast Nov. 8, 2000). Karen says the Spanish immersion program is going very well, as is the service learning program.
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Extractions: Tips To Avoid Gangs and Drugs There are things you can do about crime and violence in your school. Here are eight things you and your friends can do to be safe and have a successful school year: 1. Talk and watch carefully. Travel with a group or with friends to and from school and school activities. Always be aware of your surroundings. 2. Accept responsibility. Do your part to make your school safe by following all school rules, including behavior codes, dress codes, and safety rules. 3. Never carry a weapon of any kind to school. The risk of harm to yourself and your classmates is too great. Any instrument used to attack another person can be considered a weapon, but firearms pose the greatest risk, multiplying the potential for serious injury and death. 4. Do not join gangs, hang out with gang members, wear gang colors or gang-type clothing, or use gang symbols or hand signs.
Extractions: Homepage CMHS Programs Go to... Child, Adolescent, Family Community Support Coping With Traumatic Events Disaster Services HIV/AIDS Homelessness Managing Anxiety Mental Health Statistics Special Programs and Initiatives State Planning Features Topics Go to... Abuse Adolescents Alcoholism Alzheimer's Anxiety Bipolar Birth Defects Brain Cancer Conduct Disorder Consumer Depression Disabilities Disaster Relief Dual Diagnosis Eating Disorders Expenditures Genetics Grants Homelessness Insomnia Managed Care Parity School Violence Social Work Suicide Schizophrenia Therapy Navigation A Guide for Parents Getting help for your teen is a major step in bringing him or her back from the edge of harms way, and promoting a healthy future. You should also know that sometimes when a child is having serious difficulties, it may be a sign that there are family issues that should be addressed. When seeking help for your teen, consider whether the rest of the family could also benefit from counseling.
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:: NASA Quest > Archives :: Part 4 getting involved. I teach a class here, it's undergraduates, so they are,you know, older than the students I'd probably be interacting with on the http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/hst/video/debate/involve.html
Extractions: transcript of the PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE program Now as the traffic on our super highway continues to build we'll probably break this thing up into separate discussion groups, one for each of the planets that we are talking about. And it's... well just like a regular road, the SuperHighway, you can drive anywhere you want to. As a matter of fact, you can even visit the Space Telescope Science Institute here in Baltimore via the Internet. You can explore its thousands of fantastic pictures already taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, pictures of the target planets we have been talking about, as well as stars, galaxies, black holes, anything you want. The whole universe will be at your command. The Space Telescope Science Institute address on the World Wide Web is http://www.stsci.edu You can gopher by using www.stsci.edu , or transfer files from ftp using ftp.stsci.edu RETA BEEBE on electronic communication: I think the Internet is a fantastic device. Not only do I get communications regularly from people who have just fundamental questions they need to ask, I also get communications that are almost impossible to get any other way. I can talk to a planetary astronomer in Alma Atta over by the Tibetan border two to three times a day on the Internet, and if I tried... if I attempted to send him anything in any other form it takes months for him to get it. So that not only would the Internet provide a way of students... for students to talk to working scientists in this country, it gives them access to the world.
