Parental Roles
In a University-Model School®, parental involvement in the grammar stage of learning is vital and extremely rewarding. Parents are an integral piece in this model of schooling, serving as tutors in the satellite classroom on days at home. On these days, parents are responsible for seeing out detailed lesson plans created by the classroom teachers. An effective partnership between dedicated parent and teacher is key in assuring that grammar school students gain the strong academic foundation necessary for long term success. Some specific duties that a grammar stage parent can expect to be responsible for include:
- Review new learning (phonics, grammar, math)
- Assist with drill exercises (math concepts, phonics rules, memory work, vocabulary words)
- Monitor handwriting practice
- Check work completed at home and assist with making corrections
- Initiate conversations about topics being studied in class
- Listen to literature being read aloud by students and discuss story elements
- Read aloud to students and discuss history texts
- Partner read
- Assist in editing writing assignments
- Aid in research
- Attend field trips
- Monitor student learning and identify any areas of concern that may need to be addressed
- Regularly communicate with classroom teacher
- Obtain a private tutor if a student is struggling in a particular subject outside the parents’ expertise
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 1:8
“Training may be defined: accustoming the child to do easily and willingly what is commanded. Doing right, doing it habitually, and doing it by choice–this is what we aim for.”
Andrew Murray
Parent Resources
