By: Joselyn Aguilar, Mayra Iguasnia, Adriana Lara, Angely Ocaña, Blanca Santacruz

1. Joselyn Aguilar
Mayra Iguasnia
Adriana Lara
Angely Ocaña
Blanca Santacruz
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL
DE CHIMBORAZO
UNIVERSIDAD
NACIONAL DE
CHIMBORAZO
Parents and teachers
working together to
improve the learning
process will help to achieve
excellent outcomes.
By:
Languages Career
National Standards
for Parent / Family
Involvement

2. 1.- PARENTING: Help all families establish home
environments to support chil-
dren as students.
* Parents should create a spe-
cific environment for reading
using some fairy tales and
children magazines in order to
develop in them the reading. It
will help students to improve
their reading skills, compre-
hension and understanding.
* Parents should establish
routines for children’s home-
work. So they will do their ac-
tivities in an unconscious way.
* Parents should use TICS to
reinforce student’s knowledge
at home because it lets stu-
dents to set update all infor-
mation.
3.– VOLUNTEERING.- Recruit and organize parent
help and support.
* Volunteer parents will provide an extracurricular
support to the students who have a low academic per-
formance. It will be helpful for
the teacher in order to rein-
force what he or she already
taught and to clarify any
doubts about the class.
* Groups of volunteer parents
will monitor students’ perfor-
mance and they are going to
report the other parents about
what is happening in the class-
room. Because it will create a
communication environment among parents.
* A volunteer parent will enter to the class to evaluate
how is the relationship among teacher and students to
check if the purposes established at the beginning of
the scholar year are fulfilled or not. Doing this activity
parents will realize if the methodology applies by the
teacher is appropriate or not.
4.– LEARNING AT HOME: Provide information and
ideas to families about how to help students at home
with homework and other curric-
ulum-related activities, decisions,
and planning.
* Teacher should present a kind
of lesson plan with the topics
that are going to be developed
along week. Because they need
to know what the children are
going to learn so they will be able
to help in students’ homework.
* Parents should read in advance the coming topics
that will be taught in the next class. It will help stu-
dents to be preparing in advance and to have a previ-
ous knowledge on the coming content.
* Parents should act as guides in developing their
children homework but jut monitoring and supporting
their work since it is not a good idea to develop the
children’s tasks, it is better let them do by themselves.
National Stan-
dards for Pa-
rent / Family
Involvement
Program
2.– COMMUNICATING.-
Design effective forms of
school-to home and home-to
school communications
about school programs and
children’s progress.
* Teacher should have
meetings with all the par-
ents and especially with
those who have disciplinary problems because it
will let teachers to act as a counselor and provide
some solutions to solve those problems.
* Teacher should ask parents to attend to motiva-
tional lectures so they will make them reflect on
how they are educating their children and if they
are doing well or not.
*Authorities, school principals and teacher assign
a schedule for parents to ask for their academic
children performance. It will be mandatory for
parents to attend at list twice a month. It will be
suitable to establish a link between parents-
children and teacher-children.
5.- DECISION MAKING: Include parents in school
decisions, developing parent/leaders and repre-
sentatives.
* Teacher should ask parents
to attend to a leadership course
so they will be ready to help in
making decisions at school. It
will help parents to know how
to manage a group and deal
with problems.
* Teacher should also ask par-
ents to attend to a meeting in
order to choose the representa-
tives of each class because they will work with the
teacher to improve the teaching – learning process.
* After choosing the representatives of each class,
school’s principal should encourage parents to con-
tinue working for the development of each class and
students. The committee is going to represent all
the parents with ideas and suggestions for creating
a good learning environment, overcoming the main
problems and achieving good outcomes.
6.– COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY: Identify
and integrate resources and services from the com-
munity to strengthen school programs, family prac-
tices, and student learning and development.
* Teacher should work with
parents in extracurricular
activities like organizing
some competitions al
school or any kind of enjoy-
able activity. It will help
students and parents to
feel relaxed and it will be helpful to make the learn-
ing process easier .
* To organize a summer program to get students,
parents and teachers engaged and enjoying as a
group, that will help them to create a link beyond
the classroom in order to become friends and work
together in a better way.
*To ask some members of “Defensa Civil” to attend to the
school in order to give to parents and students a lecture
about what should they do in case of Tungurahua volcano
eruption.