Filosofia
As raízes da alfabetização da família como método educacional vêm da crença de que "o pai é o primeiro professor da criança". Estudos demonstraram que os adultos que têm um nível mais alto de educação tendem a não apenas se tornarem cidadãos produtivos com capacidade social e econômica aprimorada na sociedade, mas seus filhos têm maior probabilidade de ter sucesso na escola. Os pais alfabetizados são mais capazes de apoiar o aprendizado de seus filhos. O estabelecimento de programas de alfabetização familiar é a estratégia mais eficaz para aumentar o envolvimento dos pais e o desenvolvimento da alfabetização. O objetivo do currículo de alfabetização dos pais é aumentar o desempenho acadêmico dos alunos. Quando os programas de alfabetização familiar são estabelecidos, os pais se tornam defensores da alfabetização de seus filhos. Simultaneamente, a alfabetização dos alunos se destaca à medida que os pais ficam capacitados. Quando os pais são capacitados, eles se tornam participantes ativos ao longo da vida na educação de seus filhos
Visão geral
Os serviços abrangentes de alfabetização familiar fornecem uma abordagem holística, totalmente integrada e focada na família, proporcionando aos pais e filhos mais que precisam melhorar suas habilidades de alfabetização com serviços educacionais e não educacionais intensivos, frequentes e de longo prazo. Os serviços de alfabetização familiar fazem mudanças sustentáveis em uma família, integrando todas as seguintes atividades:
Adult Education: designed to extend basic academic level, think critically and creatively, solve problems, set and achieve goals, and acquire successful workplace and interpersonal skills.Childhood Education: designed to promote the growth and development of young children and to engage parents in their child's educational program in order to foster meaningful involvement that will be maintained throughout the child's educational career.Parent Education: provides instruction on how children grow, develop, and learn. It addresses issues critical to family well-being, connects parents with community resources, and provides opportunities for parents to network and develop mutual support systems.Interactive Parent/Child Activities: provides parents and children the opportunity to share their newly developed literacy experiences. Parents and children interact together, enriching their relationship through reciprocal learning that takes place, enabling them to become true partners in education.
Exemplos
Adult Education: The goal of educating parents is to empower and provide resources to parents who are a child's first teacher. Adult Education helps to rebuild relationships between parents and the school's faculty and staff. Some classes and activities provided for parents at the Prairie State College Family Literacy Project are English as Second Language classes, Adult Basic Education classes, General Education Development certifications, and vocational training.Building Family: The Leadership Program's nationally recognized Building Family program invites parents into school communities with workshops that are hands-on, informative, and fun. These successful workshops meet a wide variety of parent needs and interests: from personal health and professional growth to nurturing the creative spirit and parenting strategies for promoting children's academic achievement. Backed by The Leadership Program's decades of experience facilitating more than 2,000 Building Family workshops for over 20,000 public school parents, this inspiring guidebook includes thirty-three complete workshops with convenient step-by-step instructions. Use it to lead dynamic experiences that will inspire enduring parent engagement in your own school community.Childhood Education: Helping to involve parents can be done in a child's learning through play groups, sharing stories and books together, and child-directed play time that all help the child to bond with their parents.Parent Education: The family literacy program developed in Illinois at the Prairie State Family Literacy Program provides parental support about health issues, good nutrition, discipline, and takes parents and children on field trips to purchase books for children to read at home.Interactive Parent/Child Activities: The Prairie State Family Literacy Program has developed a special time for interactive activities that they call "P.A.C.T." time. During this P.A.C.T. time there are play groups that involve both parents and their children working together. They are separated by age groups to help guide the interaction and activities.Greenman Elementary in Illinois established the first family literacy project called P.A.L. Parents Advocating Literacy in district 129. Since 2010 over 100 parents have become members of P.A.L. (Parents Advocating Literacy.) P.A.L. is a family literacy project that teaches parents strategies that teachers use in the classroom every day. Establishing P.A.L. is the most effective approach to increase parental involvement in reading development. The purpose of family literacy curriculum is to increase students’ achievement by connecting school and home. When family literacy is established parents become advocates for their child's literacy. Through P.A.L. parents become empowered and become lifelong supporters of their child's education. P.A.L. was implemented district wide in 2013. P.A.L. is also in other districts throughout Illinois.F.R.E.D.:Fathers Reading Every Day is a family literacy program developed at Texas A&M University. In this program, fathers or father figures such as grandparents, uncles, or family friends are encouraged to read to their children every day for four weeks.
Veja também
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family LiteracyNational Center for Families LearningEven StartFamily Education Network