CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Culminating Activity: “What’s a Parent to Do?”
Objective: Students will identify ways to foster parents’ understanding of how they can help
their child be successful in elementary school.
Essential Question: What information might parents need to support their child as a learner?
Activities:
1. Have the students interview parents and teachers of elementary school students about how
parents can help their child to be successful, or have students research how parents can
help their child to be successful in school.
2. Have students create a brochure, PowerPoint® presentation, or letter to parents with tips for
students to be successful in elementary school.
3. Allow students to work either individually or in groups. Tell the students that the completed
brochure or presentation might be shared with an audience (for example, displayed in the
media center, presented at the PTA meeting, or shared with high school students who are
studying child development) if they choose this assessment option.
Materials:
• Handout: “Parenting Elementary-Aged Children”
Assessment:
Brochures, presentations, or letters may be the culminating assessment. See the evaluation
rubric for “What’s a Parent to Do?” brochure.
Time:
15 minutes in class t