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Direct Line: (323) 582-2915
Centro de Padres (en espaņol)

For Test-Taking Strategies for your child, click here
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PARENTS AT GAGE:
At Gage, our Parent Center has been a valuable resources to parents (of course!), teachers and staff, and students. Parents are a valuable resource here at Gage. You will see them serving our school as volunteers in any number of capacities. Gage Parents are enGAGED, from making phone calls to assisting in the classrooms; from supervising the playground to chaperoning field trips; from preparing costumes for school plays to preparing luncheons and banquets for special occasions.

Bungalow 21 is the headquarters of the Gage Parent Center, a service to our community. Mrs. Carmen Morgana  serves as our Parent Representatives and helps to coordinate the activities of the Center.

The Parent Center provides:

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Parent Community Services will promote increased student academic achievement by building the capacities of local schools and communities to train, educate, and support parents as partners in their children's education.

Visit the link below:
LAUSD's Parents/Guardian Resources!

TIPS TO HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED IN SCHOOL

Here are some tips to help you with the success of your child:

- Read to your child. This is the most important step a parent can take to help his/her child succeed. Can I read to my child in my native language? Of course!, that is equally effective.

- Have your child read to you, or read together. What can you read? You can read anything that interests you. What counts is that your child is reading.

- Other things you can do with your child: follow a recipe, make a shopping list and estimate how much it's going to cost, check out a book together from the Library, etc.

...NOW, HOW ABOUT HOMEWORK?

- Let your child know that homework IS important

- Make sure your child has a study area and a set time to work on homework.

- Make sure that your child shows you completed assignments, and praise him/her for the effort.

- If you suspect your child should have homework, but he/she says to you: "I don't have homework", you should check with your child's teacher. Maybe your child is forgetting about an assignment ...or two!

How about Test-Taking Strategies for Parents?

PARENT TEST SUPPORT STRATEGIES

Preparing for Testing

·  Note test dates on your home calendar; schedule appointments on non-testing days.

·  Encourage your child to take responsibility for homework and class study.

·  Help your child learn how to find information independently.

·  Praise your child for work done well.

·  Encourage your child to ask questions at home and in class.

·  Get to know your child’s teachers.

·  Attend parent-teacher conferences.

·  Confer with teachers on a regular basis for progress reports. Don’t wait for progress report cards to arrive at home if you have any questions on your child’s academic progress.

·  Gather available test preparation materials.

·  Assure your child knows that you value a good education.

 

Testing Day

·  See that you child is rested and eats breakfast.

·  See that your child arrives at school on time and is relaxed.

·  Encourage your child to do the best work possible.

·  Do not send your child to school if illness is apparent.

·  Do not remove your child from school on test days for appointments.

 

After Testing

·  Examine all test reports sent home.

·  Determine areas of strengths and weaknesses.

·  Praise your child’s testing strengths and make a plan to address identified weaknesses.

·  See our child’s principal, counselor or teacher if additional information is required.

 

TEST ANXIETY

Students may experience anxiety about tests and may experience heightened anxiety before a testing situation.  A certain degree of test anxiety is normal and may help students prepare more effectively, work more efficiently, and remain focused during testing.  Too much anxiety, however, can negatively affect performance.  The following strategies may assist students, parents, and teachers in reducing test anxiety:

 

Parent Strategies for Reducing Test Anxiety

·  Discuss the test openly and in a positive way.

·  Have realistic expectations of your child’s performance.

·  Encourage your child’s best effort.

·  Emphasize that the test in only one measure of academic performance.

 

Test-Taking Strategies Contributed by Ms. L. Herrera, Testing Coach

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