Week 4

If you require parents to sign-out youth from your program

The only math activity you can do in after school is drill youth on math facts.

Confidentiality is keeping sensitive information held only among those who need to know

Be visible to parents, they need to know who you are

Youth often have problems that are in context or are written. To help them be successful:

Signing out has policies and procedures around it that you should be aware of

Every parent or caregiver should be greeted and at least once a week given positive comment about the youth.

Another strategy is to read the problem for understanding.

When helping youth master math facts consider:

Be sure to only share what youth did wrong with the parent

During closing it is possible to

Letting the caregiver know something positive is essential whenever possible.

You should focus your closing on:

When working with math academic vocabulary have youth:

When you are confronted by a parent in a setting outside of program and they ask questions about other parents:

One math strategy is to create a picture or graphic of the problem?

When parents pick kids up, don't answer their questions. It's just not your job.

A child's first teacher is his/her parent.

At the end of the day it is essential that

Agreements form the foundation for all conversions and include: