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Meaningful family engagement in children?s early learning supports school readiness and later academic success. Parental involvement is a critical element of high-quality early care and education. It has been mandated by the Head Start framework since Head Start?s inception in 1964, built into model programs like Abecedarian, outlined in Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP), and incorporated into NAEYC standards for programs serving young children (Snow, N.D.).
The primary theoretical basis for collaboration between schools, family and community is the Ecological Systems Model (Bronfenbrenner, 1979,1992; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998), given its acknowledgement of the shared systems of all the stakeholders and the dynamic nature of the …show more content…

The majority of the parents also believed that they had the time and energy to help with homework, but fewer said they knew enough about the subject content of homework assigned by school teacher, to be helpful enough to clear the doubts for their children at that very moment when they have …show more content…

This may require special efforts to keep in touch with parents, such as an evening phone call, home visits, parent-teacher dialogue journals, arrangement of?transportation and child care, or events scheduled on Saturdays (Barbour, 2012).

There are also not many opportunities for the parents to be involved in school activities throughout the year. Part of the reason for lack of parental involvement in school activities would be the timing of such activities where parents finds it difficult to absent themselves from work. Plans could be made at the end of the year for such school activities for the whole of next year to be given to the parents so that they can plan their work in advance and join in the activities.
As quoted by OECD (N.D.) the overall findings from parenting programmes indicate that: parents feel more secure in interactions with their children, boost their sense of well-being and benefit their children (Diamond and Hyde, 2000; Scott, 2003; Sylva et al., 2004); parents increase self-confidence in good parenting, particularly for poor families (Epstein,

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Head Start incorporates the whole family and believes that the parent needs to be involved in the care of the children. When I think of this in the relationship to the classroom this is why I think continuity of care is so important. “Continuity of care means that children and their caregiver remain together for more than

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Key Stakeholders Children are key stakeholders in the Head Start Program. The Head Start program helps children in several ways. For example, children learn their basics in education; children also learn socialization skills by interacting with other children within his/her own age group (Castro, Bryant, Peisner-Feinberg & Skinner, 2004). The Head Start Program fosters a set of values to support the overall goal of improving social competence within the family unit and its environment. Single parents are also key stakeholders in the Head Start Program, because they utilize the program to meet child care needs and their children’s educational needs.

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In recent years, our culture has busied itself with work, technology, and parenting. Parents today have micromanaged their children’s time more than ever, a parenting style known as helicopter parenting. In youth sports alone, participation has grown astronomically (Haidt and Skenazy). Extracurricular activities are on the rise due to this trend of parents enrolling their children in more and more activities, causing a decrease in leisure time. Parental involvement even goes beyond extracurricular activities, extending into classrooms and the workplace.

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Parents have been vocal for some time about their young child coming home with homework after spending a solid eight hours in class. Kids and adults alike are frustrated with the push of academic expectancy and minuscule creativity. The

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Children who need to do their homework the most tend to be rather lax and not do their homework. On these grounds, assuredly, awareness will be raised to those who are

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Organizations within Arizona provide support for early learning centers such as First Things First and Thrive to Five. Each organization provides guidance and support for teachers in early childhood education curriculum to best meet the needs of students. The organizations also provide support to parents as the child’s first teacher. Thrive to Five provides parent and teacher workshops, activities, and ongoing support with academic and social concerns for the early learners. Sixteen of the twenty schools have a parent liaison, which serves as the liaison between the families, Thrive to five and the school. The parent liaison helps bring the curriculum alive for families so they can best support their children at

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This includes to welcome every families, and to value each of them equally, for children and families to have the sense of belonging to the community (Cologon, 2014; Garrity, 2016). To build a positive relationship with family, educator need to always be proactive to learn about the families, to understand the abilities and the needs of the child, and adjust the environment and program that allow every children and/or family have the same opportunities to participants (Cologon, 2014; Garrity,

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Children who have a secure attachment to their father tend to have improved developmental outcomes in a variety of ways including having improved social abilities with their peers, having fewer problem behaviors, and the paternal effects on developing a greater level of emotional self-regulation are especially significant. In addition, having a secure father-child attachment relationship can help compensate for potentially harmful effects resulting from an insecure mother-child attachment relationship. A child who is securely attached to his or her father will explore freely while the he is present, typically engages with strangers, is often visibly upset when the parent departs, and is generally happy to see the parent return (McLeod, 2014).

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These parents start out with the full intention of supporting the teachers and their children’s schools. Yet, something goes wrong along the way as they and their children fall into a homework trap. The problem starts in elementary school. The notes come home, and the parents get “the call.” They meet with the teacher and make plans to make sure everyone is on the same page.

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The main purpose of homework is to help children training for a new skill, able to finish the work started in class and find out about a new topic (East Sussex Country Council, 2011). There are some aspects that parents need to take into account. Parents can create rules on when and how their child homework will be completed. For example parents can let their child to start with their favourite subject, take a break after each task and let them know when the time to return to their work is. Parents can give verbal reminder such as “Amanda, just a reminder that there are only three more minutes left in your break”.

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Everyone goes to school, everyone has homework. Homework has been a topic of interest for a very long time. Many students think that homework is not beneficial. However, without homework people wouldn’t remember what they learned in class. Homework gives kids the chance to prove what they have learned.

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As a teacher, it is my responsibility to share information on the development of the child and have a clear and constant flow of dialogue with the family. This will enable both parties to deal with any issues that may arise within the family, school or community. It also my belief that parents should have an active part in their child’s learning and be able to lend a hand whenever necessary, and having open communication with them will allow this transparency and connection between home and school. The community is vital in ensuring that the facilities around the community and school is appropriate for the different children and families to live in and grow. A very good example of this successful collaboration is the Reggio Emilia approach in Italy.

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