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Sunday, March 4, 2012

EDLD 5326 Week 1 Discussion

The tenth-grade students at Washington high school. An urban school with a diverse student population, have little knowledge of higher education opportunities and have not began to plan their post-high school futures. Ms.Hall, an English teacher, has recognized that her students need to start planning immediately. She wants to expose students to possibilities, as well as educate them and their families about the wide range of post-high school educational opportunities. What types of family-school-community partnership would be most beneficial to these students  how would Mrs. Hall go about establishing a partnership committee, and what are possible projects to put on agenda for the first meeting ?

Ms. Hall should develop the instructional plan for students to increase knowledge of higher education opportunities and provide the guidance to develop their post –high school plans. The family-school-community partnership would be most beneficial to these students by planning the program as following:

-Consult with career technology education advisors to explore the necessary resources for planning the program and provide the career inventory assessment for students to explore their interests matching the future careers.

-Consult with business communities for planning the field trips for students to visit the workplaces.

-Having one of students’ parent or guardian member to be involved with student’s post-high school graduation plans and acting as a mentor or a guidance to reinforce student’s planning process as part of class instructional requirement. For example, the students will go with the parents or guardian to college or university visiting center to collect the information and a discussion with academic advisors for application requirements and catalog of courses or majors/minors. After the visits the campuses and students will write the essay about reflection of their experiences.

-Having one of students’ parent or guardian member give a presentation about their jobs career, work experiences and tips for job interviews in classroom.

This type of planning will require career advisors or school counselors for their inputs and ideas for planning the program. Also she will need to communicate with university and college visitation centers to provide information or send one of their representatives to help with developing the plan for the program. In addition, she should participate in PTA meetings to bring up her idea for the program and ask for the feedback and inputs from participants this way will increase parents and guardian involvement in students’ educational and provide full communication access between staffs and parents/guardians. Once she have the program all planned out with reasonable timeline and it is important to having school administrators to review the plans to ensure the program are completely legal compliant and follow the standard procedures, provide feedbacks and allocating the budget for the program.

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