Parent Involvement
Getting More Involved in Your Child’s Education
Parent Involvement leads to more student success.
Students have a greater chance of being successful at school if their parents are actively involved in their education and their school.
How can you get more involved with your child’s education?
There are all kinds of ways you can help support your child’s learning.
At home you can do simple things like:
- read with your child
- let your child see you read, so you are a reading role model
- create a quiet space for your child to do homework.
You can go out to:
- your local library and find books for children of all ages
- a Parenting and Family Literacy Centre to find activities for preschool children from babies to 6 year olds.
You can get involved by:
- volunteering to help at a school event, a class trip or with a school group
- becoming a member of your school council
- becoming a parent representative on a Parent Involvement Committee through your school board.
Helpful links for parents
www.ontario.ca/EDUparents has links to resources for parents, including the new School Information Finder. This new tool lets parents search online for any publicly funded school in Ontario, and see a school profile.
You can also find links to various parent organizations, as well as information on Parents Reaching Out grants for school councils.
www.ontario.ca/abc123 offers tips for parents to help children from kindergarten through Grade 6 with reading, writing, math and more. Tips are available in 14 languages.
www.ontario.ca/studentsuccess Ontario’s high schools are changing to meet the individual needs of students with innovative Student Success programs to help more of them succeed.
Questions For Parents
- How engaged are you in your child’s education now?
- What is preventing you from getting more involved?
- What would encourage you to get more involved?
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