Ultimately, I am planning to create a class blog for parents to access throughout the school year. I teach first grade, and having parents involved in the classroom is extremely important. I just completed my second year teaching, which felt like my first year since my first year was mostly distance learning. I found myself really nervous when parent teacher conferences came around and questioning if I was doing enough to connect with parents. I would send home the occasional reminder, or message about a behavior, but that was it. This blog would help parents feel more connected to the classroom, which in turn creates a better learning environment for my students. When parents get involved in learning, students learn more. My intentions with the blog is to include weekly updates about what their children are learning. These updates will include photos and videos of class activities. They will also include resources for parents to access at home to further support their child's learning. This type of parent engagement would help to create a stronger classroom community between me, my students and their parents.
I have had parents ask me for work to send home with the students, how they can better support them and what I need in the classroom. This blog will be a space for all of those things. I can post content resources: sight word lists, videos of the math concepts we are learning, extra practice, etc. I can also use this space to show families what we are doing in the classroom, share photo and video of activities and the things their children have created. It will also be a space for families to communicate with me. I will have a space where parents can send me emails, messages, make comments, etc. My hope is to better engage parents, which will better help students learn in the classroom.
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