GSU Blogger - Dr. S. Kahrs
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Creating Awareness
Part of the IB authorization process is creating awareness for parents and the school community. I decided to develop a quarterly workshop call IB MYP101. On October 29th I had my 1st workshop. This workshop was to inform the parents and community about the core tenet of IB, the learner profile. In creating this workshop, I decided to use station to station activities to engage the participants. In one station, I invited a seasoned MYP Coordinator to come speak about the importance of the learner profile to the IB curriculum. Another station, I enlist the services of a community organization and the PTA to organize materials that will help parents through this process. Another station, involved a matching activity that exposed participants to the learner profile vocabulary. The last station was a video presentation of the learner profile. The feedback that from the workshop was very positive. Participants stated that the workshop was very informative and engaging. I would have loved to have had more community members at the workshop. I informed the parents and community two weeks in advance. Yet the turn out was disappointing. How can I increase community involvement for the next workshop?
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Omar, this sounds great and sounds like you put a lot of time and energy into preparation. It's unfortunate that more community members did not attend. I, too, am having the same problem with our community. I have been asking, searching, begging community members to get on board with our school in a program that we have started. It's a great program to support students academically. But I can only get 4 community members on board. And of those 4, only 2 are consistent. It is disappointing. I am continually reaching out to them in all forms of communication. the constant reply I get is "I just don;t have the time." So what do we do?? I am interested in hearing what others are doing or if they are having the same problems.
ReplyDeleteOmar, you may want to tie your event to an event that sees more parental and community involvement. We are a Title I school and our once a semester Conference Nights seems to be our biggest draw. If you have something like that, you may want to tie your event with them when you have more parents and community members in the building. I work with another AP with our current seniors. This semester, we tied our 'Graduation Night" , our event intended for our vastly off track 2012 cohort students to give parents options. Almost half of the parent showed up
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