Parenting: Ten Steps ...

Ten Steps to Helping your Child Succeed in School: Volume I

Mychal Wynn

#7201 (5.5 x 8.5, 234 pgs) $9.95

ISBN 1-880463-50-4
978-1-880463-50-5

The "Ten Steps to Helping Your Child Succeed in School" book should be the first PTA/PTSA sponsored parent workshop. Student achievement research clearly mandates that parents become effective advocates for their children, that children be taught by highly-effective teachers, and that children be exposed to enrichment opportunities that assist them in developing a wide range of gifts and talents.

The book demystifies the entire process of supporting a child's development from preschool through high school. Parents are guided through a step-by-step process of identifying a child's personality type, learning style, Multiple Intelligences (or the ways in which they are smart); understanding their child's best and worst learning situations; identifying the best schools, teachers, and programs for their child's unique gifts, talents, needs, and aspirations.

Activities further provide a means of bonding parents and children and they develop action plans and enhance home-school communication through a common vision of increasing student performance and development.

Systemic, sustainable increases in student achievement is impossible without effective home-school communication and parent-teacher collaboration. The "Ten Steps to Helping Your Child Succeed" book and workbook provides the BEST resource for building the necessary home-school and parent-teacher partnership.

Parents learn how to share their information with their child's classroom teachers to better help teachers to make more meaningful connections with children.

Parents also learn how to quickly assess a school's climate and culture; whether or not teachers personalize student success within their classrooms; and whether or not teachers have pre-existing biases toward, and stereotypes of, children.

Parents learn how to become more actively involved in ensuring their child's success in school and success in learning.

Parents also learn how to create a vision; a household of high expectations; and how to help their children stay focused on their dreams.

Includes: Multiple Intelligences Tables; Personality Type Tables; Learning Style Tables; How to Evaluate a School; How to help ensure your child's placement with the right teacher; Homework Rules Chart; How to best communicate with your child's teachers; How to stay focused on your child's dreams and more.