The Lesson Plan
Presented in ten lessons, HomeWork gives focused attention to ten specific topics deemed valuable for parents to share with their children. Each topic includes descriptive actions and activities that inform, and instruct parents regarding their meaning and potential importance. Included are such areas of focus as: learning, responsibility, creativity, talent, and encouragement. These and other focus areas reflect principles and concepts parents and those in parenting roles may have given informal attention to as they interact with their children. Providing defined attention through the training, learning processes presented in HomeWork will increase the potential for broader awareness and acceptance by parents to positive beliefs, behaviors and support for their children.
HomeWork offers an approach that allows users to:
- Cultivate interest, motivation, and encouragement among parents in valuing learning, goal setting, and accomplishment as important to their children’s success and achievement.
- Prepare parents for success as their children’s teachers by cultivating their personal growth through their completion of the IRRA components.
• Introspection
• Retrospection
• Roundabout
• Action
This original model focuses on the importance of individual awareness and responsibility among parents. It is explained in HomeWork and appears in each lesson. - Promote parents and those in parenting roles as primary, positive resources by establishing, re-establishing their credibility as teachers, role models, mentors and examples for their children, their peers, family and community.
The IRRA Components
Introspection
A reflective look inward; an examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings; self-examination; self-reflection; self-searching, soul searching (Merriam Webster) To look inside; the act of thinking about your own ideas or thoughts; actions; looking inward. Read More.
Retrospection
Directed toward the past; looking backward; contemplating the past; reflecting on, thinking about the past; considering, assessing the past. Read More.
Roundabout
Uniquely, this Roundabout concept can apply as a process for preparing parenting adults for success as their children’s teachers by cultivating their ability to cooperate, collaborate, display sensitivity for and awareness of the rights of others. Read More.
Action
This component allows parents to examine and consider the lesson through Introspection, Retrospection and Roundabout, and prepares them well to perform related Actions. Read More.
Activities Completed Together
A.C.T. offers a formal opportunity for parents and children to work together, applying what parents have studied during their lessons in each area of focus. Read More.