Parent and Community Information
Parent Involvement Website (English) Parent Involvement Website (Spanish) Dear Parents: Miami-Yoder School has adopted an additional means of assuring each student’s success while answering a recurring question, "What can I do to help my child?" During the course of your child’s education, there will be hundreds of learning objectives taught and hopefully mastered. Some of these skills are foundation or building block skills and some are considered terminal skills. Foundation skills are prerequisites to future skills. For example, skills that involve fractions are prerequisite skills to learning algebra. Terminal skills include the knowledge of specific dates of events that occurred in history, geographic locations of specific places, and other such information that is important, but not necessarily essential, to future skill development. We have developed a program to ensure that all of the foundation skills have been mastered and reviewed by both you and your child’s teacher. We have created activity booklets for these skills that are available on our web site at www.miamiyoder.org or if you do not have access to the Internet we have a printed booklet available at the school office. We are asking you to spend thirty (30) minutes each week working on a different skill together. This will ensure your child’s academic success. The example set by you, as you exhibit an active interest in teaching or reviewing these skills, will have a positive and lasting effect on your child. Ensuring the mastery of approximately fifty (50) skills each year will definitely mean success for your child and the opportunity for a bright future. Having good questions to ask your child in response to the "nothing" answer when asked, "What did you learn today?" is priceless. Please print out or copy each tutorial as you complete the activity and indicate to the teacher that you have assisted your student. This will establish a new means of communications between you and your child’s teacher. Together, we can make a difference, one student at a time. Sincerely, Miami-Yoder School District JT60