|
[Transcript]
Petty Officer Quinn Lyton:
From the AFRTS News Center in Washington,
this is the two-minute report. I’m Petty Officer Quinn
Lyton. Helping your child to learn inside and outside out of
the classroom just got easier. The Department of Defense Education
Activity, DoDEA, has just published a set of Parent Guides to
instruction, like this one. The first set of booklets covers
kindergarten through third grades. Booklets for other grades
will come later. Each booklet is grade and age-specific and
inside are tips and activities aimed at helping your child succeed
in school.
Dr. Elizabeth Middlemiss: We're
very excited about the Parent Guides that have been developed
for pre-kindergarten through third grade because we believe
that parents are their children’s first teacher and because
we want to establish a link between the learning that happens
in the classroom and the learning that happens at home.
Lyton: The booklets
describe DoDEA's curriculum, focusing on reading and language
arts, math, science and social studies. Dr. Middlemiss says
parents will find specific activities that they can do with
their children to help them carry over learning that is taking
place in the classroom.
Dr. Middlemiss: They're
based on the standards that we teach, so that whether your child
is in a classroom in Fort Bragg, or in Okinawa, or in England
or Germany, they're learning basically the same things.
Lyton: DoDEA
is shipping the booklets to schools now. Each school decides
how to distribute them. Dr. Middlemiss says some will send them
home with the children; others will distribute them during parent-teacher
conferences.
Dr. Middlemiss: We
just urge parents to look for these books and to give us their
feedback on how they've helped or additional suggestions for
anything that we might do in the future to make them even more
meaningful.
Lyton: You can learn
more about Department of Defense Education Activity schools at
the DoDEA web site. That's the two-minute report. From Washington,
I'm Petty Officer Quinn Lyton.
|
