Immigrant Families: Can Parents Help Children With Their Education?

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Home is the first place that children are in and educated, which means home is children’s first school and parents are children’s first teachers. However, when it comes with the situations that parents do not speak the language well or low academic levels, which means parents themselves do not know the knowledge. What the parents can help children are providing children the educational opportunity and try their best to help children. Besides providing children an educational opportunity, how could parents help children with their education? School-home connection is a good option, but there are two sayings. One is having parents and teachers connected could promote children on education, the other is distract children from successful education. …show more content…

Even though U.S. government offers everyone an equal opportunity to be educated, parents need to work to support their families that they do not have time to go to school. Parents would like to send their children to school because they understand how important education is. Based on the differences of language, culture, and educational system, immigrant parents have hard time to get connection with schools. They do not what they need to do to be involve in school since they do not understand the language. Some immigrant parents speak a little English, but they are not confident enough to express themselves. Parents want to know how their children do at school and help with their study. Teachers also want to help children to achieve their goals. Lareau said that teachers want parents to be involved in their children’s education, to “sign homework, help with projects” and “be positive” (Lareau, 2003). This means school-home connection is important. Parents might not be able to help children with all the homework, but mathematic that parents can check their math homework and sign. Having parents to help with the project is a way for them to involve in children’s study. Parents might not understand what the project is, but they can have their children to explain, and then give children some suggestions. In order to help parents to know more about the school …show more content…

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

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