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Six Types
Family/School/Community
Partnerships
Learning at Home
Type 4
Based on the work of Joyce Epstein,
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland
PowerPoint presentation by
Parents Plus Inc.
Type 4: Learning at Home
 Involve families with
their children on
homework and other
curriculum-related
activities and
decisions
Sample Practices
 Information for
families on required
skills in all subjects at
each grade level
 Information on
homework policies
and how to monitor
and discuss
schoolwork at home
Type 4
Sample Practices
 Information on how to
assist students with
skills that they need to
improve
 Regular schedule of
homework that require
students to
demonstrate and
discuss what they are
learning in class
Type 4
Sample Practices
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 Calendars with daily or
Calendars with daily or
weekly activities for
weekly activities for
parents and students to do
parents and students to do
at home
in the
at home
or inorthe
community
community
 Summer
learning
packets
Summer
learning
packets
or activities
or activities
 Family
participation
Family
participation
in in
helping
students
helping
students
set set
academic
academic
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year year
for college
and and
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for college
or or
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Type 4
Challenges
 Design and implement
a regular schedule of
interactive homework
(e.g., weekly or bimonthly) for which
students take
responsibility to
discuss important
things they are
learning with their
families.
Type 4
Challenges
 Coordinate familylinked interactive
homework
assignments if
students have several
teachers.
 Involve families their
children in all
important curriculumrelated decisions.
Type 4
Redefine “homework” Type 4
 “Homework” not only
means work that
students do alone, but
also interactive
activities that students
share with others at
home or in the
community, linking
schoolwork to real
life.
Redefine “help”
 “Help” at home means
how families
encourage, listen,
react, praise, guide,
monitor, and discuss
schoolwork with their
children, not how they
“teach” children
school subjects.
Type 4
Results for Students:
Results for Parents:
•Knowledge of how to
•Skills, abilities, and support,
to support,
encourage, and
test scores linked to
encourage,
help
studentand
at home
help
homework and
student
each
year.
at home each
classwork.
year.
•Discussions of school,
•Discussions of
•Homework
classwork, homework,
school, classwork,
completion.
and future plans.
homework, and
•Positive attitude about future plans.
of
•Skills, abilities, and test •Understanding
homework and school. instructional
program
of
scores linked to homework •Understanding
instructional
and
what child is
of parent as
and•View
classwork.
program in
and
each
what
subject.
more similar to teacher learning
is learning in
and of home
as more child
•Homework
completion.
•Appreciation of
each subject.
similar to school.
teacher’s skills.
•Positive attitude about •Appreciation of
•Self-confidence in
teacher’s skills.
•Awareness
of child as a
homework and school.
ability as learner.
•Awareness of child
learner.
•View of parent as more as a learner.
Results for Teachers:
•Varieddesigns
designsofof
•Varied
homeworkincluding
including
homework
interactive
interactive
assignments.
assignments.
•Respect
•Respectfor
forfamily
family
time.
time.
•Recognition of
•Recognition
of
helpfulness
of singlehelpfulness
of
parent,
dual-income
single-parent,
and
all families dualin
income and
all
motivating
and
families instudent
reinforcing
motivating and
learning.
reinforcing student
•Satisfaction
with
learning.
family
involvement
and
support. with
•Satisfaction
family involvement
and support.