Parent Advocacy Brochure
Advocacy brochure for parents of ESL students
The English as a Second Language Provincial Specialist Association (ESL PSA) of the B.C. Teachers' Federation has produced a brochure for parents of ESL students in B.C. public schools.
The brochure explains the following to parents:
- what ESL support might look like for their children,
- what is involved in learning a new language,
- how school in British Columbia may be different from what they experienced in their home countries,
- ways they can know how their children are doing at school, and
- what they can do to help their children learn.
The brochure had been translated into fourteen most common languages spoken by students in B.C. public schools:
- French
- Chinese (simplified characters)
- Chinese (traditional characters)
- Hindi
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Russian
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Vietnamese
Each translated brochure is labeled in English to help you identify them for easy distribution. We hope that this brochure will be useful to schools and community groups. Please feel free to print, photocopy and distribute it.
Parent Information Booklets for ESL Learners:
Trying to help parents understand our school system and how we 'do school' is always a challenge. Few districts are lucky enough to have cultural interpreters available to help with this cross-cultural understanding. Luckily a small start on helping with this challenge has begun to take shape. With a grant from federal funders of the Settlement Workers in Schools program and the willing assistance of ESL teachers and cultural workers, a series of brochures is being created to address some of these needs - in various languages. The first 7 of these brochures are now online and accessible for downloading in English and in several languages.
Here is how to access the Parent Information Booklets:
For the English version: http://www.vsb.bc.ca/resources For the different language versions: go to the home page at: http://www.vsb.bc.ca and then click on the appropriate language at the top of the screen.
