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Parents and Education
Select three educational settings in your community. Contact members of the program staff and interview them to determine the following:
How does their program de-ne parent involvement? Do they have a policy statement or mission statement? What does their choice of parent involvement activities reveal about their philosophy of parent involvement?
Parent involvement is defined as the parent's attendance to meetings, reviewing their child's reports from the school and assisting children with homework. These settings do have a mission statement. Their choice of parent involvement relates their philosophy of providing the best education possible in a community-based educational setting. They involve the community and parents in their decisions about their programs and are open to what the parents and community has to say about the educational setting.
Parents are involved in many activities at this educational institutions witin the community including various activities such as fall festivals and other regularly scheduled activities at the schools.
b. Describe activities and strategies used to involve parents. How do staff members support these efforts?
There are parent-teacher meetings and teachers send...
What benefits do staff members perceive for children, families, and the program?
The benefits for children and families as well as the program is the interaction of all actors in the child's education.
d. What challenges to participation do parents face that may prevent them from becoming actively involved? What has been (or can be) done to overcome these challenges?
Because the majority of parents are employed and on various shifts this prevents many parents from taking part in the schools' activities. Nothing was noted to have been done in this respect.
2. In a small group, discuss the reasons to support parent involvement for families, programs, and communities. By group consensus, list the three most significant reasons your community should promote family involvement.
Promotion of parent involvement serves to assist children in attaining the best education possible because parents know what is going on in the school and are better able to assist their children in their learning endeavors.
Teachers need parental involvement to understand better how to address learning goals.
Community involvement means that the community has a stake in the outcome of learning.
3. In multiple studies, researchers have discovered differences in parent involvement strategies used by programs and schools. Conduct your own community research, individually or within a team. Interview the parents of children in preschool, kindergarten or primary grades, and middle or upper grades. Ask them:
There are many opportunities for parents to be involved in the child's school programs…
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