Learning
The Role of Parents in Education
GEMS 3rd annual Parental Engagement Week closes with an invitation to Dubai parents and schools to attend a forum on, “The Role of Parents in Education”.
The Dubai School of Government and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority have teamed to hold an open forum for parents and school members on, “The Role of Parents in Education.”
Date: Tuesday January 31, 2012
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Location: Dubai School of Government
See link below for RSVP and location map
The discussion with a panel of expert speakers will seek to answer a variety of questions;
Parental Engagement is key to creating successful students according to world expert
World Renowned Harvard lecturer and author, Dr. Karen Mapp in the U.A.E. to launch new GEMS Parental Engagement Campaign Dubai, UAE- January 22, 2012: World renowned author, educational expert and Harvard University lecturer, Dr. Karen Mapp says children in families who are into learning at home do much better in school, and in life in general.
“What we know from the research is that students get better grades, and have a more positive attitude and approach to learning new things when parents engage in learning with them at home,” said Dr. Mapp.
Why a Campaign to encourage parents to engage?
At the start of this new year, GEMS is launching a Campaign to encourage parents to engage with their children 3 times a day for educational reasons.
Why are we campaigning? Because it has been shown that when parents engage strongly with their own children - in reinforcing the importance of education and in talking about learning - children do much better at school.
This is something you see all around the world.
On The Ball
Research into the way the brain lays down memories has been used by a British school to teach a complete GCSE module in 90 minutes rather than the usual four months. And for a third of that time the students were playing basket ball or juggling!
Monkseaton High School in Tyne and Wear in the North-east of England, which has a history of pioneering developments in education, experimented with a class of 13 and 14 year-olds teaching them a GCSE science module a year earlier than normal.
For the exercise the pupils watched a 20-minute PowerPoint presentation of 70 slides covering the entire module, narrated by the teacher and then had a ten minute break, playing basket ball or juggling.
