EXED JenLiz

Negative barriers Positive outcomes

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• Issues that are occurring at home stay at home unless communication is brought into the classroom.

• Having communication between parent and child involves the parent in issues that arise in the school from day to day.

When parents and teachers don’t agree with each others decisions about the child, tensions may arise.

The expectations of the child should be the same whether at home or in school.

Family Involvement is ...Any role or activity that enables participating families to have direct and meaningful input into and influence on systems, policies, programs, or practices affecting services or community life for children and families.

“Where we live should be a community, if our children all attend the same school, why shouldn’t we parents get to know each other as well? The single best predictor of our student’s success in school is the level of our parental involvement. That way our community will be more united, and we can create a better future for our children (Berkowitz & Beir, 2005).”

Parents viewed themselves as a separate part of their child’s educational world

Very few parents participated in school programs, volunteered, and took initiative to become involved

Parents were not very supported in

being involved by law makers and administrators

belong in the classroom unwelcome by school personal or

administrators incompetent with the curriculum Fear that they wouldn’t be of assistance

to their children simply didn’t know what they could do

played a role in deciding how involved families could be in their child’s education

didn’t want to spend political money on family involvement, for the fear of getting involved in the federal role of education

didn’t want to be caught in the power struggle between schools and families

School board members and superintendents began to resist any kind of federal mandate for family involvement because the federal law began what was an “alternative” political system to the power of the superintendent

How do you think parents feel about their involvement in schools today?

How do you think law makers view the importance of family involvement?

How do you think administrators and teachers view the importance of family involvement?

How do you think children feel about their family being involved?

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Creating a program that focuses on families becoming more involved in their child’s character education program.

Together teachers, parents, administrators can help students to develop socially in positive ways.

Some schools provide parents with training about social issues that children face every day. (parent workshops)

Helping parents support learning at home by teaching them strategies that relate to curriculum, and how to interpret tests.

Preparing parents to participate in school decision-making-These programs encourage parents to join school committees so that they may make decisions on curriculum policies, parent-involvement activities, the school budget, and reform initiatives.

Family Resource center- Parents as partners in school-wide

restruction Volunteer partnerships-