Funds of Knowledge and Home/School Partnerships
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Discuss using bullet points how funds of knowledge, or the knowledge that the parents and family possess, could be used to cultivate home/school partnerships.
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This solution details how using knowledge found within each students' family can build home to school partnerships. This is useful for trying to understand how everyday knowledge learned from the parents of students can bring families closer to schools.
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How Funds of Knowledge Could Be Used To Cultivate Home School Partnerships
The discovery of funds of knowledge is a process which builds:
- Trust between the family and the teacher and the family and the school
- Visiting households and showing genuine interest in their lives
- Providing a way to build the self esteem of individuals in the family
- The act of enlisting their help
- Verbalizing the worth of what the teacher is learning
- ...
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