Help Your Child To Succeed Toolkit: The Essential Kit for Helping Parents to Help Their Children - Softcover

Bill Lucas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855391139 ISBN 13: 9781855391130

Publisher: Network Continuum Education, 2003

Synopsis

As a result of the success of Help Your Child to Succeed Parent's Guide - and in resonse to requests from teachers, Family Learning workers and a variety of local authority staff - we have developed this Toolkit of training materials. the Help Your Child to Succeed Toolkit provides learning professionals with everything required to run a programme for parents on helping children to learn and succeed. Like that of the Parent's Guide, the strtructure of the Toolkit is easily accessible, with each section containing a balance of information, reflective activities and practicle suggestions. The Facilitator's Handbook describes in detail ten sessions, each tying in with one chapter from the Parent's Guide and suggesting many possible activities and discussion points. The material is designed for maximum flexibility. You might feel that your potential parent audience would be more comfortable with a shorter course, or with slimmed-down sessions. Or you might decide to use the ideas described to communicate with parents in an entirely different way, for example: a parent's evening session on 'How to help your child learn'; a Saturday School for parents; a series of twilight sessions; a parents' book club; notes sent home via school newsletter; an open course hosted by a school or community centre; part of the core content for childcare classes; a dads' step-dads' and granddads' Help Your Child to Succeed workshop; notes on a school website. The Help Your Child to Succeed Toolkit can play a significant part in getting parents involved in their child's development ast school and home. The pack contains: Help Your Child to Succeed Parent's Guide; Facilitator's A4 Handbook, 96 pages in full colour; 4 sets of 12 A5 double-sided Parenting Cards; 4 sets of 32 A6 Family Game Cards; CD-ROM; World Map Poster

About this title

About the Author

Bill Lucas is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester, UK. One of the UK's foremost educators, Bill is Chairman of the UK's Talent Foundation, a former Chief Executive of the Campaign for Learning, creator of Family Learning Week, and the author of many best-selling books including Happy Families: How to Make One, How to Keep One. Bill appears regularly on TV and radio and is a guest speaker all over the world. Bill is also a very active parent.'

From the Inside Flap

Learning is the key to success in life and family homes are where good learning habits begin. With the Help Your Child to Succeed Toolkit, you can help parents to help their children to succeed, in school and beyond.
The Facilitator s Handbook describes ten course sessions in detail, each exploring ideas from the best-selling Help Your Child to Succeed Parents Guide, by the same authors.
The Toolkit s flexibility of design means there s no need to carry out all sessions, or do them in sequential order tailor the programme to best fit your parent group.
Choose to include as many or as few of the activities as you wish in each session, according to the nature and needs of your group.
The activities can also be used individually in a wide variety of other contexts, from parents evenings to family learning pieces in school newsletters.
The sessions are carefully designed to engage, support and motivate adults from every background, with any learning preference.
The activities are practical and interactive, encouraging reflection, discussion and sharing of experience, and involve parents in little or no reading and writing.
All the Toolkit resources are carefully laid out in an attractive, highly accessible format.
All resource sheets, and copies of all activity cards, are provided on a CD-ROM, and can be printed out in colour, or black-only if preferred.
Apart from basic stationery, the Toolkit provides almost everything you ll need to run the activities described.

Edition details

• Publisher: Network Continuum Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1855391139
• ISBN 13: 9781855391130
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96