Essay On Parent Involvement

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ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

Title of Project: Parent Involvement

AREA OF FOCUS: What is your chosen area of focus? Why did you choose this area? How does it directly impact you?
Factors which affect parental involvement in the Early Education arena. The Researcher is trying to improve the academic achievement of her students. The Researcher is an Early Education Instructor of culturally diverse, low income students; whose parents traditionally are young, lack transportation, and have complicated work schedules. The children of these parents are students in the Researcher’s class the objective is to determine if children whose parents participate in all required activities do better on weekly and standardized tests.

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The Researcher will conduct a survey for the teachers at the center and take the results to implement the strategies and suggestions made by the co-workers. The researcher will increase the communication between the Researcher and the parents and will reward parents for parent participation and record the academic success of all children calculating the differences in level of those children whose parents are cooperative and the parents who fail to be involved. By documenting the parents who participate and those who don’t and evaluating the weekly instruction and the results of the Dial 4. DATA COLLECTION: What data will be collected? How often? What tools will be used?
Copies of tools will go in appendixes. The Researcher collected data from a survey given to the other Early Childhood teachers; there were two mandatory home visits and two parents’ teacher conferences, as well as, PTA meetings. Although the word mandatory is used the parents are not penalized if they do not attend. Their children are not removed from the class room setting. Each meeting is documented and the results of the meeting recorded. This record will be used to evaluate which students are exhibiting the most success. …show more content…

Phase IV Evaluate completed data and develop an action plan. Look for trends that emerge among the various forms of data.
DOCUMENTATION OF ADJUSTMENTS: How did the plan change during the course of the Action Research timeline? What prompted the change? What were the effects of the changes?
• Obtaining a letter of approval from the director- I mailed the director a copy of the informed consent and a letter explaining the study. I asked for his approval to continue with the research study. After a few weeks and still no reply, I sent an email attaching a copy of the informed consent and a letter explaining the study asking for his approval. I stopped into the office on various occasions to check on the status of the approval letter without any luck. Finally after the initial letter was sent, the director approved my research study.
• Delay of teacher responses- Approval from the director pushed the study farther than anticipated. After getting the approval I had the teachers fill out the consent form and questionnaire.
ANALYSIS & REPORTING
REPORTING RESULTS: What are your results and how will you share them? How does the baseline data compare to the ending data? What is the story told by your

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