How can a pre school setting promote adult learning?

Question

How can a pre-school setting encourage improvement with literacy and numeracy skills in parents of their children. Apart from signposting them to adult learning course do any of your settings have any schemes running currently as my nursery setting is not in a position to do this but at college they still expect me to do an assignment on it and write about what my setting does to help! My simple answer is Nothing! Not really good enough is it .Help!

Answer 1

Well for a start they can encourage parents to come into the settings and read stories with the children this helps both children and parents gain confdence as well as improving literacy skills. Having parents come in and help out in the setting along side there child for a couple hours is also a good idea - letting them see what happens and what they do to promote literacy and numeracy skills so they can get ideas. To be honest there is not a lot they can do because they are there for the kids..im a nursery nurse but im doing a degree in early years and i have never come accross a lot of ways to promote this in a setting. The main thing they can do is offer courses within the setting or send them to courses away from the setting.

Answer 2

1. pictoral schedules -

2. labels - or step by step picture i

3. number lines -

4. calendars

5. simplicity

6. organization

Answer 3

One to try have a parent evening and have an agenda cheese and wine and also some guest speakers from the adult learning cuircuit ok maybe it is false pretenses but if it gets them there let the adult learning experts do the rest after a glass of wine parenst sign up to alot of things they normally wouldnt.

Answer 4

My answer would be to encourage parent - helpers.  The assigned parent would maybe have 1 morning a term where they are rostered to come in and spend the day learning beside the children.  Reading to them, painting with them, learning through water play or measurement or even building a confidence course with the children.  Where I used to teach this was a part of the programme for each morning to have a parent helper and all families knew when their preschoolers were enrolled that this was expected once a term.....