I like the first of all communi to cambridge park some of our parent
community it's great my name's Adam Forbes we're at cambridge park high
school I've currently the Hat the highly accomplished teacher what we do is a
school and how we can improve our communication to parents we've done a
lot of our parent surveys school culture surveys that have identified that
parents art finally had a lot of information regarding student
achievement apart from the reporting period we've decided to implement it
moto exactly how to use Edmodo as a parent and gets get best value out of
utilizing it as a learning platform for your your children I've wanted to make
sure that we that we involve as many parents as possible in that process the
school is located near penrith which is western sydney it's a low socio-economic
area my role is basically to help oversee the implementation of Edmodo
will start to set up your account what I'm doing I'm showing the parents how
the school and the parents can work together as one just look facebook
today's was quite a small group one of the sessions we had 24 parents turn up
which was great you'll end up getting a notification when an assessment task is
placed on the system when the teacher uploads a task i'll upload you will get
a notification on your smartphone you can download the assessment task i want
to make sure that the students can achieve their best and part of that is
making sure they've got support just not at the school level but also that that
continued support at home and that we've been able to establish a partnership
where there are no mixed messages for the kids so there's no excuse for them
not handing a song for not knowing that dates now know that all the information
will be placed on Edmodo so you laughs access to all of your both children's
information they like the structure you know they like to know what's due when
is due and they like to be informed teachers are uploading powerpoints are
doing in class they're uploading revision notes they're uploading
previous HSC examinations a lot of parents and a lot of students been
previously would be reluctant to share at home as well as at school
that's great and now it's become a point of open and open deliberation and
conversation so last term there was an assistant to us at Tom Ted yeah and it
was like a few weeks later that I got a letter home and I thought ah so with
this sort of help these situations what happened last term shouldn't happen
again okay um being from the reason for that is that he's going to be aware that
you're going to get the information that he needs as well uh-huh and that you're
going to be able to support him in regard to completing his stuff on time
part of my role is promoting teaching and learning within the school
supporting and providing professional learning for our staff and trying to
build the capacity of s cool to be able to communicate with parents on a more
open platform you definitely need to be available for that personalized learning
plan meeting with month ya know because it is a section here where you go down
as as the mentor okay each student in our school if they are falling behind
get a staff mentally he's quite bright I look he can achieve whatever he puts his
mind to it's a matter of just applying himself my role is to try and facilitate
that rapport and tomato or that relationship that has developed is one
that is based and grounded at their overall school achievement I have said
to moma she believes that there's a need for Learning Support look when we tasted
me tested for quite high in you seven and okay but if there is any need of
learning support it may just be helping in plan and prepare quite often our
staff are reluctant to call parents you know it can be a confrontational
conversation which staff are quite reluctant sometimes to get involved in
my premise is that if a student does something does something really well
staff should also be contacting home and that's where i work a staff about how to
frame their conversations you know town to be able to get their point across
about something that may not be so positive but to make sure it's in a
dialogue that's very very open and very mutually respectful respectful obviously
that we just need a bit more support and using Edmodo in it and their support
from his mother that I think that we can achieve that yeah yeah it sounds good
yeah I'm really proud of the way it's taken off in the school at the moment
all the rewards that we've seen students students
already completing all their work you know students are asking questions there
they're got formal discussions about content happening between students
across different classes I think having people on the same page parents in
school on the same page is only going to add value to what the kids are
experiencing at school