This is the perfect place for parents and family to get involved in their child's success and life-long learning. The Family Education Plan (FEP) is a tool that facilitates your involvement. You can find information About FEP, the first tab on the Family Education Plan web site, where you learn who, why, what, and how. The Family, Education, and Plan tabs provide a great source of information that walks you through the process with thought provoking questions, activities, book lists, evaluations, work sheets and additional reading. The Resources tab offers a long list of additional web sites along with definitions for education acronyms.
Family Education Planning Process
Below is an outline to guide you through the Family Education Plan process using this web site.
Parent pre-planning time (20 minutes)
Parents discuss prior to the family gathering time- lead the family in:
- Create a Family Mission Statement (Plan tab: Work Sheet #2)
- Examine Values and Identify Family Educational Values (Family tab, Education tab, Plan tab: Work Sheets #2 & #3)
- Build upon family strengths (Family tab, Education tab, Plan tab: Work Sheets #1 - #5)
- Identify areas in which our family can improve/enhance (Family tab, Education tab, Plan: Work Sheets #1 & #2)
- Basic Need: Understanding and meeting our families basic needs
- Character& Values: Developing and nurturing character and family values
- Academic Skills: Involving family in lifelong learning
- Set educational goals (Education tab, Plan tab: Work Sheets #3 & #4)
- Plan activities (Family tab, Education tab, Plan tab: Work Sheets #5 & #6)
- Reflect on the success of those activities in helping the family to achieve its goals (Family tab, Education tab, Plan tab: Work Sheet #7)
And though you may expect us to tell you that the rest is up to you, you know that isn't the case once you have used this site. Many organizations exist to support you.
We want to hear from you. Click the Contact Us tab and/or Give us Feedback to send us questions, your successes and failures, what your family has learned, and provide feedback that will help us improve.
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