Foster Home Study

In today’s education world, an essentialist viewpoint is most prominent. This means that student learning should be focused on certain crucial subjects and they should be taught the same way in every classroom in our country. This view has led to the prevalence of standardized testing as a focus of teachers and the Common Core State Standards. Whether or not this is the correct way to teach youth, America agrees that everyone deserves an appropriate education. This is expressed in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Included in ‘everyone’ are students who have been placed in foster care. These students struggle in the world of academics. Sanchez (2004), Goemans (2015), Stone (2007). Before introducing ways that teachers can help

Sanchez (2004) The absence of students from school is a difficulty that needs to be acknowledged for teachers to overcome this. As discussed in ‘Strategies’ this is a reason to have social workers involved with the student’s education. This is also a reason to have communication with the student’s foster parents so that they might work together to help the child succeed. It was once thought that foster homes were better for students than group homes in terms of behavioral adjustment and academic success. This has been shown to not be the case. Goemans (2015) Children in foster homes struggle just as much as others in out-of-home placements. The average math and reading grade for children in foster homes is a D, and the older students are, the lower their grades are. Sanchez (2004) clearly there is a need for teachers to intervene with these students if they are to do well in the school system. Sanchez (2004) showed that counseling isn’t enough to help these student do well. Other interventions are

In this particular study, foster parents tutored a child for three hours a week. The majority of this time was spent on reading with some portion on an online math program. This intervention raised the math and reading comprehension scores of students involved with the study. Getting foster parents involved with improving their child’s studying outside of school could benefit their academic success. This was with a research based intervention which would cost school districts or child services organizations money to