For Parents

Common core aside, the question facing parents today is "Are we raising children prepared for the real world?"

 

https://youtu.be/_lfxYhtf8o4

 

Information on raising "millenials": 

I. FYI: Raising "Millenials"

  

Our children are a new generation, a different generation...the "net generation".  Technology has been the driving force in the cultural changes between our children and ourselves.  To understand and work successfully with the growing "generation gap" it is important to acknowledge these differences.  Below are helpful websites provided to me by Ms. Nacional of Cherry Ave. Elementary for all of us parenting in the new millenium:

1.Understanding generational differences:

http://www.digitaledge.org/monthly/2001_07/gengap1.html#matures

2. Netiquette:
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/netiquet.htm

3. Highly recommended website for teens and parents (Allison Mills Carroll, Guidance Counselor in the Syosset
Central School District at Harry B. Thompson Middle School.):

http://www.kidshealth.org/

 

 

All lesson objectives, student activities, assignments and assessments in this course are designed to meet the New York State Standards for Social Studies and to prepare students for the New York State Social Studies Regents in June.

Below are helpful parent resources for your information:

New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/socstands/socstand.html