Three ways that parents can become meaningfully engaged in their children’s learning in the early childhood education setting.
1. Parent Education and Involvement
Contact between parent and teacher can be awareness of the education of parent. To reinforce parental interest in their children’s education, teachers have children under observation of their behaviour towards parents and then put forward some ways in dealing with these problems such as show them games and toys that are suitable, hold parenting skills workshops, and books and articles are mentioned to interest parents (cited Boyse, 2010). All activities planned are considered to be educational and spontaneous. The idea of parent education and involvement in the early childhood settings is to include a number of programs of family support based on the needs of parents and their children. Also, the promoting of
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Communicating with Parents
According to Stonehouse (2011) parents and teachers communication can be done in many ways with one another. In doing so, teachers show the important role parents play in theirs child’s upbringing and also, parents are aware of what their child is doing in school. Stonehouse (2011) go on to state some common ways teachers can involve and inform parents includes:
Classroom newsletters- This gives information about what the children are doing in school and upcoming events that would be taking place, personal information about babies, vacations and other important events taking place in their children lives.
Bulletin boards-Poster where parents are able to see notices about community resources, library stories hours, childcare and parents meetings. Information regarding programs, toy safety and also cultural events.
Home visits-A home visit can also be used as communication. This relationship might be focused between the child and teacher or the visit might be a way of socializing with the entire family to get acquainted with the teacher.
3. Parent-Teacher