Post on 13-Jan-2016
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Authors Barry Corrigan, Millennium Integrated Primary School, Saintfield, Co Down
Enthuse ChildrenEngage ParentsMake Homework Count
Objectives
Microsoft Community Clips, Microsoft Movie Player, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Learning NI environment, Internet Explorer, Encarta Encyclopedia, Adobe Reader, ACTIVprimary.
Software
Description Pupils access materials used in the classroom to support their learning. The resources are placed in the Learning NI environment provided by C2kNI and they are then supported as they complete homework.
There is email support from the class teacher as well as online discussion forums for the children to participate in.
Learning Areas Homework – Numeracy and Literacy, Thinking Skills, Online Collaboration, Community Forums, Virtual Learning Environment
Class Primary 7 (AGES 10 AND 11)
Parental Engagement and Collaboration;
Homework Support;
Family Learning;
Social Inclusion;
Lifelong Learning.
Keywords
Project Overview
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Project Objectives
Children – Set the Cycle
Can’t understand the
school work!
Find the
homework
difficult!
Don’t
want to
learnNo support or help
Children
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Can’t understand the
school work!
Find the
homework
difficult!
Frustrated
Can’t support or help
Parents!
Project Objectives
Parents – Want to Break the Cycle
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Make the school
work accessibleSet
interactive
activities
Create
Interested
Learners Offer online support
with resources and
Teacher
Project Objectives
Teacher - Breaking the Cycle!
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Teacher Planning and Management
Come on – get involved!
Background & Planning:
Video – Classroom Practice and Homework Follow Up
(See how the classroom is extended into the home environment)
•My pupils love using ICT resources in class.
•If they enjoy it – why not use it?
•Parents see their children using the computer for educational purposes.
•The new Curriculum in Northern Ireland is placing an increased importance on ICT in learning – both in school and at home.
I want that to be a point of contact between the children’s learning and their parents.
Classroom Images:Look at how I build the link between school and home.
DocumentsThe Online Classroom
Background and Planning
Discussion Forums
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Teaching Resources
Student Project Overview:
LearningNI is the virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that the children access for their homework.
Community Clips Video showing some of the areas within LNI
Due to Child Protection live LEARNINGNI access will be available on the floor in Berlin
Student Project Overview:
LearningNI is the virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that the children access for their homework.
Community Clips Video showing some of the areas within LNI
Due to Child Protection live LEARNINGNI access will be available on the floor in Berlin
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Assessment and Standards
So – have we seen the end of the school bell?
Is the school day effectively extended into the home?
Am I meeting my objectives?
Parent Evaluation: What do the parents think?
VIDEO – Parent discussing the benefit for her child who has specific needs
VIDEO – Excellent video of a parent, who is also a teacher, discussing how she sees LNI working for her child.
Classroom Assistant: Looking in from the outside
(Superbly entertaining video demonstrating the excitement of my ‘mature’ Classroom Assistant about the work going on in class and at home)
VIDEO
Parent Evaluation
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Assessment and Standards - Continued
Teacher Evaluation: What do I think?
Assessment and Pupil Tracking: See how the learning is tracked.
COMMUNITY CLIPS VIDEO
(Showing the data screens within LNI)
assessment
Pupil Evaluation: What do the children think?
PUPIL A VIDEO - How homework has changed for him
PUPIL B VIDEO - Discussion Boards
PUPIL C VIDEO - Using the Library Resources
Children's Evaluation
Teacher Evaluation
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Assessment and Standards – Meeting the Objectives
Children – The Cycle is Changed!
Find the class work
interesting
Access
resources to
extend
learning
Can’t wait to
learn
Email support if
needed
Children
Can’t understand the
school work!
Find the
homework
difficult!
No support or help
Don’t
want to
learn
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Can see the classroom
activities
Understand the
homework
activities
Interested!
Can see the resources to
offer help
Parents!
Assessment and Standards – Meeting the Objectives
Parents – See the Cycle Broken
Can’t understand the
school work!
Find the
homework
difficult!Can’t support or help
Frustrated
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Why an Integrated School?
Windows Live MovieMaker film I composed about
Integrated Education in Northern Ireland
Our education system separates children according to their religion!
Integrated schools were started as a means of addressing the violence in Northern Ireland..
Religious differences were at the heart of the violence
If the children could be educated together, then we could make progress on improving the lives of everyone
by breaking down suspicions and sectarianism.
Integrated schools break these religious barriers, bringing children together for a
common purpose – understanding each other, building bridges and to giving an
innovative education!
An Integrated Primary School gives parents the chance to leave the ‘old ways’ of Northern Ireland behind and
make a new beginning!
‘Making Homework Count’Engaging Parents
Millennium Integrated Primary School (School Website)
Barry Corrigan
Who are we? (Link to school prospectus)
Millennium Integrated Primary School opened in September 2000 with just 10 pupils in a house in Newtownbreda Park, Belfast. Five years later it opened its building on the present site on the Belfast Road, Saintfield. The school now has 226 pupils, including a Nursery Unit which opened in September 2008.
Our kids made this excellent video about the school’s history in 2007
PART 1
PART 2
We like to feel that we develop independent, creative and interested pupils.
Who am I?
I am the Vice-Principal, Primary 7 (age 10-11years) teacher and
ICT Co-ordinator.
Why do I do it?I have a keen interest in computers, especially gaming, and have ambitions of having this medium accepted more into mainstream interest through the use of the Nintendo ’Wii’ for Dyspraxic children; incorporation of Nintendo DS into maths classes and future use of Sony’s PS3 game ’Little Big Planet’ for collaborative game design.
Have a look at some of the regional television coverage we have received highlighting our
innovative use of technology - VIDEO