Educating Children 's Academic Achievement

It’s widely recognised that the more involved parents are in their child’s education, the better the pupil performs at school. Whether, it’s just being aware of their progress and understanding their achievements or parents taking a more active role and becoming involved with the school itself.

It can also help to get the parents involved in any major issues to ensure that you are all on the same page and any strategies you put in place are being done at home too.

Family involvement in education can help get families involved in school and knowing what their child is learning

be English Language Learners, (ELL) for them to benefit from this lesson or to meet state

The strategies that got this parent involved in school activities were text messages and notes sent home to the parents. The parents are invited to

when it’s just understood that seniors aren’t going to come to school. Parents pretty much go

Parents Meetings / Evenings– to inform the parent of their child’s progress throughout the school year and where they need to improve.

with their peers. Many people do not consider that a child's life extends further from just school.

An aspect of my teaching that I am interested in making more effective is my ability to engage and involve parents in their children’s learning and development.

As educators, we spend a great amount of time looking for different ways to implementing curriculum, meeting school and district deadlines, assessing, planning, and grading. But do we ever take time to really get to know our students and their families in a personal level? Without event knowing, we hold different biases towards students and their parents; we expect them to have certain knowledge about their community and culture depending on their demographics and socioeconomic status. We completely ignore the fact that many parents can make positive contributions to our classrooms. In the book Funds of Knowledge edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, and Cathy Amanti, we can see how many families have abundant knowledge that the schools/teachers do not know about and therefore do not use in order to teach academic skills.

In what ways might I help parental in their child’s education? By making parents aware of the education system and how to surpass any obstacles they may face.

There time they have to take care of their brothers or sisters because their parents are working all days that cause them to miss school.

The symbiotic relationship between teachers and parents is crucial to the educational success of a student. Parents must be involved with their child’s education through consistent attendance of IEP meetings and advocate for their child and their needs at school. Teachers can encourage parent involvement through, traveling notebooks home and note home programs which establish an open line of communication between teacher and parent. Parent-teacher conferences are a great way for teachers and parents to be involved in the success of the student's educational experience.

“We are open to all parents coming to the school but due to safety reasons there is a high level of security that can deter parents from being more involved. We view parents as a valuable part of a child’s early learning however in our title environment we often see a lack of involvement that hinders their child’s early learning.”

Parental involvement in education is a vital essential for creating a cooperative environment for the student to thrive and succeed in. When a student knows that he or she is receiving support both inside and outside the school, the chances of that child becoming responsible for and active in their education are more likely. I know that there can be difficulties including parents for many reasons. Such parents may be too busy, uninterested or just feel helpless. However, as an educator, I will still have an obligation to reach out to these parents and assist them.