LCB006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jargon, Differentiated Instruction
14 Jun 2018
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How can teachers build authentic relationships with families and their communities?
1. How did the teachers in the video/vignette engage parents in their school?
• Vid 3: Phone calls and texts, classroom wiki, face-to-face chats, private meetings (with
students if possible), diary communication, outside school hours picnic
• Textbook: newsletters, morning teas and lunches with families, evening expo for school work,
meet and greet at classroom door
2. Which ideas did you find useful for your own professional practice?
• Vid 3: Phone calls/texts home
• Textbook: Evening expo
3. What do you think will be challenging for you in your communication with parents of students
with additional needs?
• Vid 3: Parents of students who also have impairments, difficulty contacting parent
• Textbook: difficulty contacting parent again
Strategies to engage parents/carers:
• ESL backgrounds:
o Face-to-face: avoid jargon and acronyms, take a list of main discussion points for parents
to take away
o Interpreter
o Newsletter: native language
o Multicultural events
• Students with disabilities:
o Behaviour plan: stickers as a reward, parents can see these along with notes
o Text instead of phone call for hearing impaired parents
o Hard copies
Skills/knowledge from teacher training to help build authentic relationships within community:
• Empathy
• Phone calls - behaviour, learning
• Positive message/email
• Post cards sent home
SL contribution:
• Work with parents
• Consistency
Critical incident is something that has changed thinking, beliefs, understanding, approach
Can be a positive and enjoyable experience
Possible critical incident: in cross-marking, stating that girl is 'dull' and surprised by her work/ not
typical
Plan a student interview: what they enjoy, what they find challenging, what they want to change,
why subject is difficult, what is going wrong, what support do they think they need, what kind of
support they get. Positives and negatives
Critical incident: new ESL students, don't know what they need until the next week, what to do with
them in the mean time?
Best practice: have groups with mixed ability and then allow groups with similar ability, interchange
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Document Summary
Strategies to engage parents/carers: esl backgrounds, face-to-face: avoid jargon and acronyms, take a list of main discussion points for parents to take away. Students with disabilities: behaviour plan: stickers as a reward, parents can see these along with notes, text instead of phone call for hearing impaired parents, hard copies. Skills/knowledge from teacher training to help build authentic relationships within community: empathy, phone calls - behaviour, learning, positive message/email, post cards sent home. Critical incident is something that has changed thinking, beliefs, understanding, approach. Possible critical incident: in cross-marking, stating that girl is "dull" and surprised by her work/ not typical. Plan a student interview: what they enjoy, what they find challenging, what they want to change, why subject is difficult, what is going wrong, what support do they think they need, what kind of support they get. Best practice: have groups with mixed ability and then allow groups with similar ability, interchange.
