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1. Parents education and Family support

2. How Parental Involve­ment and Fam­i­ly Sup­port Dri­ve Stu­dent Success If you could wave a mag­ic wand that would improve the chances of school suc­cess for your chil­dren as well as their class­mates, would you take up that challenge? For decades, researchers have point­ed to one key suc­cess fac­tor that tran­scends near­ly all oth­ers, such as socioe­co­nom­ic sta­tus, stu­dent back­ground or the kind of school a stu­dent attends : parental involvement The extent to which schools nur­ture pos­i­tive rela­tion­ships with fam­i­lies — and vice ver­sa — makes all the dif­fer­ence, research shows. Stu­dents whose par­ents stay involved in school have bet­ter atten­dance and behav­ior, get bet­ter grades, demon­strate bet­ter social skills and adapt bet­ter to school. Ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion is a peri­od of learn­ing that occurs after birth until age 5, when a child’s brain is rapid­ly devel­op­ing . High-qual­i­ty ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion pro­grams can yield  sig­nif­i­cant life­long ben­e­fits  for stu­dents, accord­ing to the Nation­al Edu­ca­tion Association .

3. Chil­dren who spend their ear­li­est years learn­ing in a pos­i­tive and pro­duc­tive envi­ron­ment are:  less like­ly to repeat a grade; more pre­pared aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly for lat­er grades; more like­ly to grad­u­ate from high school; and high­er earn­ers in the workforce. Fam­i­ly involve­ment in ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion more secure­ly sets these stu­dents up to devel­op a  life­long love of learn­ing , which researchers say is key to long-term success. A gen­er­a­tion ago, the Nation­al Par­ent Teacher Asso­ci­a­tion found that three key par­ent behav­iors are the most accu­rate pre­dic­tors of stu­dent aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment, tran­scend­ing both fam­i­ly income and social status: cre­at­ing a home envi­ron­ment that encour­ages learning; com­mu­ni­cat­ing high, yet rea­son­able, expec­ta­tions for achieve­ment; and  stay­ing involved in a child’s edu­ca­tion at school. What’s more, researchers say when this hap­pens, the moti­va­tion, behav­ior and aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance of all chil­dren at a par­tic­u­lar school improve, accord­ing to researchers. Sim­ply put, the bet­ter the part­ner­ship between school and home, the bet­ter the school and the high­er the stu­dent achieve­ment across the board.

4. What Is Parental Involve­ment and How Is It Dif­fer­ent From Parental Engagement? Parental involve­ment is the active, ongo­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion of a par­ent or pri­ma­ry care­giv­er in the edu­ca­tion of a child . Exam­ples of par­ent involve­ment in schools include:  read­ing with children; help­ing with homework; dis­cussing school events; attend­ing school func­tions, includ­ing par­ent-teacher meet­ings; and vol­un­teer­ing in classrooms .

5. While both parental involve­ment and parental engage­ment sup­port stu­dent suc­cess, they have  impor­tant dif­fer­ences . Parental involve­ment:  A set­ting where par­ents par­tic­i­pate in school events or activ­i­ties while teach­ers hold the pri­ma­ry respon­si­bil­i­ty of set­ting edu­ca­tion goals. In this sce­nario, the teach­ers pro­vide the learn­ing resources and infor­ma­tion about a stu­den­t’s grades. Often­times, how­ev­er, fam­i­lies and care­givers have impor­tant infor­ma­tion about their chil­dren that teach­ers may not know. Hav­ing both edu­ca­tors and fam­i­lies engaged enrich­es the stu­dent experience.  Parental engage­ment:  A set­ting   where home and school come togeth­er as a team. Schools empow­er par­ents and care­givers by pro­vid­ing them with ways to active­ly par­tic­i­pate, pro­mot­ing them as impor­tant voic­es in the school and remov­ing bar­ri­ers to engage­ment. Exam­ples include encour­ag­ing fam­i­lies to join the fam­i­ly-teacher asso­ci­a­tion or arrang­ing vir­tu­al fam­i­ly-teacher meet­ings for fam­i­lies with trans­porta­tion issues.

6. Why Is It Impor­tant to Involve Par­ents in School? Parental Involve­ment Ben­e­fits Stu­dent Aca­d­e­m­ic Performance S tu­dents expe­ri­ence numer­ous aca­d­e­m­ic ben­e­fits  when schools and fam­i­lies work togeth­er. These ben­e­fits include: bet­ter grades; high­er test scores; high­er grad­u­a­tion rates; and stronger enroll­ment rates in post­sec­ondary education. Among the research find­ings that sup­port the impact of stu­dent involve­ment in improv­ing school performance: 

7. Parental Sup­port Pos­i­tive­ly Influ­ences Children’s Behavior Par­ent involve­ment also impacts the broad­er stu­dent expe­ri­ence — help­ing to sup­port more pos­i­tive behav­iors, bet­ter engage­ment and few­er absences in school. Among the research find­ings that sup­port this perspective: Researchers exam­ined children’s aca­d­e­m­ic and social devel­op­ment across first, third and fifth grades. Their study found that chil­dren with high­ly involved par­ents had  ​“enhanced social func­tion­ing and few­er behav­ior prob­lems”  rel­a­tive to their class­mates whose par­ents were less involved. Anoth­er study looked at fam­i­ly engage­ment across 3,000 schools and com­pared pre- and post-pan­dem­ic changes in edu­ca­tion. It found that schools with weak fam­i­ly engage­ment saw  chron­ic absen­teeism  grow by 16% dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, which was six per­cent­age points high­er than what schools with strong fam­i­ly engage­ment experienced. Two researchers from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty looked at the effect of teacher com­mu­ni­ca­tion on stu­dent engage­ment. Their study found that, on aver­age, teacher-fam­i­ly com­mu­ni­ca­tion  increased the odds that stu­dents com­plet­ed their home­work by 40% , decreased instances in which teach­ers had to redi­rect stu­dents’ atten­tion to the task at hand by 25% and increased class par­tic­i­pa­tion rates by 15 %.

8. Par­ent-Teacher Col­lab­o­ra­tion Improves the Learn­ing Environment Par­ents can be involved in their child’s edu­ca­tion in a num­ber of ways, includ­ing par­tic­i­pat­ing in activ­i­ties like vol­un­teer­ing at school, com­mu­ni­cat­ing with teach­ers and sup­port­ing aca­d­e­m­ic-relat­ed activ­i­ties at home.  The  Nation­al Com­mit­tee for Cit­i­zens in Edu­ca­tion review  notes that schools gain the fol­low­ing ben­e­fits when they work well with families: improved teacher morale; par­ents who rate teach­ers higher;  high­er stu­dent achieve­ment; and bet­ter rep­u­ta­tions in the community

9. How Can Par­ents Get Involved in Their Child’s Education? Make learn­ing a pri­or­i­ty in your home, estab­lish­ing rou­tines and sched­ules that enable chil­dren to com­plete home­work, read inde­pen­dent­ly, get enough sleep and have oppor­tu­ni­ties to get help from you. Talk about what’s going on in school.  Read to and with your chil­dren: Even 10–20 min­utes dai­ly makes a dif­fer­ence. And par­ents can go fur­ther by ensur­ing that they read more each day as well, either as a fam­i­ly or pri­vate read­ing time that sets a good example. Ask teach­ers how they would like to com­mu­ni­cate. Many are com­fort­able with text mes­sages or phone calls, and all teach­ers want par­ents to stay up to date, espe­cial­ly if prob­lems arise. Attend school events, includ­ing par­ent-teacher con­fer­ences, back-to-school nights and oth­ers — even if your child is not involved in extracur­ric­u­lar activities.  Use your com­mute to con­nect with your kids; ask them to read to you while you dri­ve and encour­age con­ver­sa­tions about school.  Eat meals togeth­er: It’s the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to find out more about what’s going on in school. Pri­or­i­tize com­mu­ni­ca­tion with teach­ers, espe­cial­ly if demand­ing work sched­ules, cul­tur­al or lan­guage bar­ri­ers are an issue. Find out what resources are avail­able to help get par­ents involved. 

10. Parental Involve­ment Out­side the Classroom Out­side of the class­room, engaged par­ents more often see them­selves as advo­cates for their child’s school — and are more like­ly to vol­un­teer or take an active role in governance.  Researchers have not­ed that par­ent involve­ment in school gov­er­nance, for instance, helps par­ents under­stand edu­ca­tors’ and oth­er par­ents’ moti­va­tions, atti­tudes and abil­i­ties. It gives them a greater oppor­tu­ni­ty to serve as resources for their chil­dren, often increas­ing their own skills and con­fi­dence. In a few cas­es, these par­ents actu­al­ly fur­ther their own edu­ca­tion and upgrade their job. While pro­vid­ing improved role mod­els for their chil­dren, these par­ents also ensure that the larg­er com­mu­ni­ty views the school pos­i­tive­ly and sup­ports it. They also pro­vide role mod­els for future par­ent leaders. Read­ing and Homework Very ear­ly in their school career — by fourth grade — chil­dren are expect­ed to be  able to read  to learn oth­er sub­jects. But recent research shows that about two-thirds of the nation’s pub­lic school fourth graders aren’t  pro­fi­cient read­ers . To make chil­dren  suc­cess­ful in read­ing , and in school more gen­er­al­ly, the sin­gle most impor­tant thing you can do is to read aloud with them .

11. Group Work 1.Advantage of parental involve­ment of children's education 2. Barriers of parental involve­ment of children's education 3.Disadvantage of parental involve­ment of children's education

12. Family structure Family Structures In the United States, a family was traditionally defined as a heterosexual male married to a heterosexual female who raised their children together in one household . According to the U.S. Census Bureau,  family  is now defined as a group of two or more people (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together .