10 Ways Teachers Can Help Parents Prepare Their Kids for Assessments

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As students return to the classroom, it’s important to involve parents and families in the conversation about student success. While teachers are directly involved in education, parents also play a crucial role. Utilizing assessment data effectively can help engage families and support student achievement.

Tips teachers can raise they can impart to parents to help them not only understand assessments and results  but also in preparing their children for testing.

1. Have them meet with you as often as needed to discuss their child’s progress. Suggest activities for them and their child to do at home to help prepare for tests and improve their child’s understanding of schoolwork. Parents and teachers working together benefits students.
2. Make sure they have a quiet, comfortable place for their child to study at home.
3. Make sure that their child is well rested on school days and especially the day of a test. Children who are tired are less able to pay attention in class or to handle the demands of a test.
4. Make sure they give their child foods that fuel that their body and mind.
5. Help them understand the importance of providing books and magazines for their child to read at home. By reading new materials, a child learns new words that might appear on a test. Suggest outside reading lists or provide suggestions from the public library.
6. Help them understand the purpose of the assessment – the difference between those used to inform instruction and those needed to meet state requirements.
7. Share with them the tests that are being used in their child’s classroom and how the results of each are used.
8. Share their child’s learning progress using assessment results as well as classroom observation.
9. Point out academic strengths and weaknesses and how they can help address areas of concern outside of the classroom.
10. Provide guidance on the importance of classroom assessments and the need for students to do their best on all tests.

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