As a teacher in a high-need school, I expect to encounter many various challenges ranging from lack of supplies to administration blunders and difficult coworkers. Of all the trying situations a teacher is faced with in his or her career, most challenging would be poor parenting. Parents have the greatest influence in a child’s development. They have the greatest impact on their children in most if not all aspects of the child’s personality and outlook on life. Parents, as caregivers and guides, have a responsibility to push their children into the world and to encourage their children to work hard towards their goals. Some take this duty much less earnestly than they ought to, resulting in the types of parents that I often encounter in my daily travels. Parents who sit idly by while their children put on a full public display of their behavioral problems. Parents who’d much rather check their emails on their cell phones than pay attention to what their children are getting into. Parents who have too many other things to take care of, leaving little time for studying together and tak...
”Kids are more successful when their parents are heavily involved in their lives,” a mother concerned about the school rules for parent involvement wrote in a letter to Superintendent Greg Cuttemloose of Hardy Knox Union School District. Parent involvement in schools is positive to the extent that the child is encouraged and they can get help with their homework when they need it. If the child is neglected without any influence that they need from their parents, they would think that there is no use to studying and getting good grades. The letter from a ”Concerned Mother” and the article, ”In Defense of Helicopter Parents” by Lisa Belkin from the New York Times, show evidence of the support of parents being beneficial to a child. The influence
For such families, “sustaining children’s natural growth is viewed as an accomplishment” (Lareau 34). Lareau also reported that many working class and poor parents feel that educators hold the expertise, and usually fear doing the “wrong thing” in school-related matters (Lareau 357). What this usually leads to is trying to maintain a separation between school and home (Lareau 358).
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
Parents are the first teachers of the students in our future classrooms. From the student’s birth until they enroll in a school program, the job to educate them is up to their parents. Once a child has started school, the job of the parent is not finished in regards to their child’s education; the role is just changing. No longer are parents solely responsible for their child’s education. Instead, parents now have a new partner, teachers. As future teachers, it will be part of our job to facilitate this relationship further and to encourage parents to be involved in not only what happens outside the classroom, but what is happening inside the classroom as well.
The scholarly article, Raising Competent Kids: The Authoritative Parenting Style, by Jeanne Ballantine was published on July 26, 2012. The author is a Sociology professor at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (Ballantine 46). The column editor was Write Helen Altman Klein, who is a professor of Psychology at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (Ballantine 46). The Association for Childhood Education International was who published this article, the article was created in hopes that readers will distribute copies to parents, colleagues, and others who work with children. (Ballantine 46).
One of the primary causes of a failing education system is the insufficient amount of support from parents to improve education. For instance, majority of parents who send their children to impoverished schools are not playing an active role in their children’s education. Consequently, there are many factors that keep parents away from supporting their children’s educational needs. Parents may be working more than one job to maintain a roof...
In order to children can grow up healthily, parents need to be pay more attention to their children. Teachers’ education mission is teaching children the knowledge they need, but they cannot be with the children all the time. Immigrant family parents and children have a hard time to be in the U.S. education because of the different educational system and language. Spring said that immigrant groups arrive with a variety of educational backgrounds (Spring, 2014). This means teachers not only need to get more information about these educational backgrounds, but also try to communicate with the children and parents. Low academic parents try their best to provide children an education opportunity. They wish teachers could help their children as much as they could on education because they do not have the ability. However, teachers’ abilities are limited. Based on the same expectation of parents and teachers, school-home connection is the best option to help children to work toward their academic goals. teachers and parents need to share valuable information about the children with each other. For example, teachers would have parents know more about the school educational system, children’s school life, and their performance on study. Parents need to talk about their original educational system, culture, and the children’s home behaviors so that teachers can make an appropriate lesson
Many parents have multiple children, while working a nine to five job, attending family activities and meetings, and staying on top of bills and home duties. Family life can get hectic and parents may not take the time to realize their importance in their child’s academics. Some parents may be too busy, and others may simply not care, but their involvement in their children’s life is essential. Whether parents or children realize it, involvement of parents in children’s lives positively affects their children’s academic success at all grade levels, including elementary, high school, and even college.
A child’s first teacher is his or her mother and father. As a parent, involvement in the education process in the early years includes engaging the child through age appropriate games, regular reading, and simply interacting on a daily basis. A child that is engaged in this way are set up to develop into students who succeed academically. Once that child attends school, parental involvement shows that the parent places value on education. Furthermore, “staying connected to the classroom gives you ideas of how to expand what she learns at school,” (Driscoll & Nagel, 2010) thus providing parents with additional tools to implement in the home to continue the teaching process even after the school day has ended.
Involvement at school may include parents volunteering in the classroom, attending workshops, or attending school plays and sporting events. A parent is the child's first and most important teacher in life and they are expected to play an active role in the child's education because it is believed a parent and child should grow together and gain a rewarding educational experience. This follows subsequently by school life where academic performance is expected to be high. The parent is supposed to be supportive to the child in all aspects which include socially, physically, mentally and also emotionally (Mwirichia,
Parents must have sense of ownership in their child’s success. Parents must know what is going on with their child at school and in their personal life. If there are negative indicators, action must be taken to correct these issues. A child’s success is affected by the interactions of the parents. If there are distracters in the personal life of the child it can be detrimental to their education; therefore, these distractions need to be minimized if not removed.
The support of a parent is the single most important factor in predicting success in school for young children (Bourquin). Parents who make it a point to get involved with the child’s education are communicating the importance of education to their child (Heffer). There are a variety of ways in which a parent can get involved. This can range from at home help and encouragement with homework, attending athletic ...
In the reading it brings up how most parents are only contacted by the school when it is something bad. This is not how it should be. Teachers should be sending home good news notes to the parents praising the students for their hard work in the class. Schools also need to be welcoming to the families and provide workshops to assist in the parent’s knowledge to allow them to help their children with their schoolwork. Having the parents involved and aware of the things that are going on in the classroom and the school are great ways to build that relationship and to enhance the student’s academic achievement and
Parent involvement is one of the most influential aspects of student motivation. The parents are the initial teachers of the child before the child goes to school and encounters education through a teacher. If a parent is completely engaged in the learning process with a child, there can be growth between the child and the parent simultaneously. The parents set an example for the child, so that the child understands that help is in the classroom and at home. Alma Wright, a first and second grade teacher, believes that parents in the classroom are a good way to stimulate children. She says, “Their active participation is a positive influence. The school is open for parents to share their talents and motivate their children” (Drew, Olds, and Olds, 1974, p. 71).
In the mind boggling world of parenting, we discover a variety of parenting techniques. Realizing these techniques usually involves a lunch date with the neighbor and her child, or a lavish birthday party that we were invited to. In these events, we find the parent who is their child’s boss, the parent who has the colossal “Kids will be kids” mentality, and then the one who feels the need to offer an unrestrained amount of discipline. When we become parents for the first time in our lives, we are truly unaware of how much patience and understanding is involved with being an effective parent. As we raise our children, we learn their behavior and they also learn ours. As new parents, we fail to realize that this domino effect soon becomes a mutual agreement between the parent and the child.