You reap what you sow.
Perhaps one often overlooked criticism of the educational process covering the past 10 years is the disenfranchisement of parents in the schooling process.
Whilst the pressures continue to mount on the teaching resource adopting new targets and procedures we seem to have overlooked one management essential; to work smarter rather than harder.
There are around 7.4 million households in the UK with school aged children (5 – 15 years old). The benefits of the 1:1 interaction between parent and child used to reinforce the schooling process can produce a significant boost to our overall teaching capacity. Coupled with concern from teachers that they are now expected to deal with issues such as diet, citizenship and table manners - historically handled by parents, there is huge scope to re-engage parents in a structured role.
Allowing teachers to manage the curriculum performance through the current average class sizes of 30 and enlist dynamic parental teaching support at home on a structured 1:1 basis can only be beneficial. Children spend 15% of their time in school, and 75% of learning retention comes from practising the lesson content effort at home will activate a highly beneficial outcome for child, teacher and parent.
Alistair Owens
keen2learn
