Sponsoring workshops, family fun night, community festivals, and having a parent resource center would all be opportunities for parents to understand they have value and are an integral part of the school
Gunnie Beacham Ms. Holliday Honors English 10 6 April 2023 Personal Pathways of Possibility The book The Truth Project by: Dante Medema features a girl named Cordelia Koenig and her journey when finding out shocking news through research from her senior project. Koenig thinks she can cruise through the project easily by writing simple poems about her ancestry, but the truth hampers that notion revealed from her DNA test: the dad she has grown up with her whole life is not her real dad. Her biological Dad is a suspicious man living in Seattle with a skeptical past. Cordelia faces several difficult choices throughout the novel and struggles as many normal teens do in handling the news she discovers.
In the article, Are We Adequately Preparing Teachers to Partner with Families? The author Tamera Sewell poses an important question, are teachers fully prepared to work with families. She also explains how problematic circumstances can come into play such as culture and social backgrounds. This can hinder a teacher’s ability to connect with families on an ongoing basis. The author also makes note regarding the lack of research on family centered practices and preparation.
Over the past three decades’ educational leadership has been in search of ways to increase student literacy in urban middle schools in the southeast sections of the District of Columbia. The quest to closing achievement gaps in urban school districts have and will always be an on-going issue for educational leadership (Daly & Chrispells, 2008). Findings from research studies suggest that school leadership accounts for fully one quarter of total school effects on pupils, making it second only to classroom instruction among school-based factors affecting student achievement (Leithwood, Louis, Anderson & Wahlstrom, 2004). There are certain challenges that middle school principals face that pertain only to these middle school principals due to
Students of both low socioeconomic status and high socioeconomic status still achieved at the same level (Hayes, 2011). Consistent communication between home and school throughout a child’s education seems to be an important factor in a student’s academic success. The school can also gain significant improvement from the helping of parents involved. As described in the article, “We are the Professionals: A Study of Teachers’ Views on Parental Involvement in School”, the author provides a teacher’s perspective on parental involvement. Baeck examines teachers’ attitudes and experiences towards parental
Also, parents who become involved with their child’s education will have a better understanding as to why education is important. “For 15 years, PIQE has developed and widely implemented a model for increasing parent involvement in K-12 schools where parent participation has been difficult to achieve.” (Project, 2002). Furthermore, mobility is an issue as to why some children do not get a proper education. “Frequent change of environment keeps the student in a constant state of flux” Reyes, P., Garza, E., & Trueba, E. T.
Parents who don’t get involved at the school are hindering their child success and doesn't even know it. These students end up not going to college and getting jobs that pay minimum wage. Worst case scenario these students drop out and do things that harm the
Leadership is an innovative process that aligns professionals with a goal, objective or vision statement. Leadership is defined as emerging and supporting a vision for instructing by learning and communicating a visional statement effectively. Leadership exemplifies the art of leading others to deliberately create a result. In leadership, leaders display themselves as a guiding tool for others in this case for teachers. In leadership, it is important that leaders coordinate the effective management of resources, namely time, material and people, to ensure that they are conveying an effective teaching and learning environment.
Dietz(1997) argued that when a school limits parental involvement to a particular type of involvement (e.g. fundraising, committee membership) then only a small proportion of parents become involved. As a result the school neither really involves parents, nor reaps the potential benefits from involvement. Instead, a more comprehensive model of parental involvement which elicits a wide variety of parental involvement is advocated (Dauber & Epstein, 1993). Epstein and colleagues (Epstein, 1992) thus developed a typology which aimed to comprehensively categorise the variety of involvement activities in which could potentially engage. These are summarised in the table below.
Parental involvement is essential to school reform. The way parents become involved and the way they should be involved
Therefore, students need to be helped perform at their level of ability in order to succeed. Building a strong parent-teacher relationship will benefit the three participants; the parent, the teacher and most importantly, the child him/herself (Holdaway, 1979). Continuous contact and help from the parents will help the educator relate his/her classroom environment with what the students experience within their home environment. Therefore, this puts the responsibility on all the adults present in the child’s life to ensure that the experiences that the child is facing are helping him/her extend his/her learning achievement (Dombro,
Definitions of Parent Involvement There is a voluminous amount of research relevant to parent involvement and the degree to which parents serves as agents and advocates on behalf of their child’s educational experience (Barnard, 2004). The extensive review of literature helps confirm this work by offering credible insights into the manner in which parents and school have attempted to devise collaborative partnerships that facilitates academic success among students. While there have been numerous strides pertaining to the benefits of parental involvement in the literature, the definition and expectations related to the role of the parent and parent involvement are somewhat mixed (Howard, Tyrone, Reynolds, & Ream, 2008).
Leadership plays a vital role in the success of the school systems and the development of society. As society becomes more complex, so does the leadership that is required to govern it (Balyer, 2012 cited Fullan, 2001). Leadership in its sophistication is said to be transformational. As such, transformational leadership has been of growing interest to many scholars and theorists over the years. The focus of transformational leadership in the school system has resulted in the development of many turn-around schools, as well as, increased leadership performances of school principals.
Teachers are the life-blood of school districts across the United States. They are masters of their specific grade-level content and work tirelessly to manage the learning and well-being of their students. Teachers are the academic leaders of the learning environment within their classrooms and collaborate with their students throughout the year in order to facilitate learning, and foster creativity and problem solving. However, over the last thirty years, teacher leadership has taken on a whole new meaning.
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.
