Classroom Activities & Family Communication
Teachers and students spend hours every day learning and interacting. One lesson that teachers need to ensure their students understand is the importance of communication within the family unit. Teachers can help students understand via classroom activities and getting parents involved in school activities.
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Parental Involvement
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Children who have parents involved with their lives in school are more successful than children whose parents are uninvolved according to Education World. Getting parents involved in student activities will open the doors for communication among the children, parents and teachers. Teachers can send home parent homework assignments with the children or encourage parent-teacher conferences.
Student Communication Activities
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One way to promote family communication is through the students. The teachers can work on communication activities, such as debates or opinion discussions on class subjects to get students to open up and communicate. One possible subject teachers might bring up is family and various types of family cultures.
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Showing Difficulties in Communication
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Teachers can use class activities to help students understand the difficulty of working together as a family when there is no communication. Teachers should fold a piece of paper and a blanket in the same manner and split up the students into groups of four. Give the students the blankets and folded papers and tell the students to fold the blanket with each student using only one hand and no talking. The students will find the action difficult. Tell students about the challenges a family faces when there is no communication and open up the class for a discussion on problems families might face.
Culture and Family Communication
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Teachers sometimes need to deal with students from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. These differences in culture can make it challenging to explain how to communicate because some cultures might not have the same communication methods. Teachers should open up the room for a discussion of various cultures and their thoughts on communicating, allowing students to input information about their own family and culture. From there, teachers can explain that while cultures might differ in how communication occurs, there are various ways different cultures talk and discuss issues. This helps students appreciate various methods of communication within the family unit.
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