Teaching Workshop for parents - anyone been to one?

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or does your school offer it. A friend of mine runs them at her school to help parents teach. I do find it hard to 'teach' help my child with reading and techniques can only be helpful especially with challenging little ones that dont go with the flow.

I was thinking of asking my school to offer this.

We offer reading cafes where we read a story with children and parents, then do an activity based on it (simplistically put I know), idea is that we model reading techniques and questioning etc. County are very keen on it as the lovely ofsted likes schools to show good links with parents. Have also been involved in putting on reading and maths workshops although can be a little dispiriting if not many people turn up. Definitely worth an ask, maybe ask about reading cafes first as they have become the in thing round here?

We have regularly run reading and maths workshops for parents - strangely there is never a great take up for the maths even though parents feel less confident helping their child with maths.

We are exactly the same with Maths mrz, even when we are promoting Maths games and making it explicit that we are not going to make parents do hard Maths! Best take up was an evening of showing methods for the 4 operations, showcased by a child in each year group, instead of talking to the parents in a hall they could wander about and see what the children were showing maybe they were all family members of our helper children!

Yes. Beware... I ended up becoming a teacher! However, that downside apart, it was very helpful - despite being an educated professional, I was nervous about teaching my DCs the 'wrong' way, and the literacy and numeracy workshops I went to got me over that.

All of my dc have had one every blinking year, from Nursery to Yr6 !!!
These are ones that the parent goes along to with the child, and makes something, which they can then use at home to help with learning, or it might show parents ideas they can then continue / adapt at home.

At secondary, we've had 'How maths is taught nowadays' type evenings.

Over the years, I've attended various others - especially where they've introduced new (at the time) ways of teaching reading or writing or phonics or maths or whatever. In Infants there were the 'How to help your child learn to read' type ones.

My school did a maths workshop per KS2 year group this year, but no-one thought to ask the teachers about it, so it all got a bit confusing.

I follow our new calculation policy, yet the meeting talked about the old calculation policy shakes head