Family involvement is an important aspect of students learning and education experience. Parents taking a role in the literacy learning of their children lead to more engagement and higher readiness levels of individual students. By creating a partnership with families, education becomes an experience spanning both in the classroom and at home. It is evident in many forms that the more parents work with their child at home and the more they show interest in their students learning, the more the student wants to learn. In Laureate Education’s Literacy Learners piece, many of the student interviews as well as the parent synopsis mention how they read, do homework or in other ways work together at home. These students showed enthusiasm for learning
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While teachers may be reaching out to families, these families may not be receiving the information in ways intended. The article Barriers to parental involvement in education: an explanatory model, by Hornby and Lafaele, looks at the factors that affect the involvement of family in education. While many parents and families want to take an active role in their students education, not all are capable of providing the essential support needed based on various factors. Hornby and Lafaele hit on topics related to the parent (feelings about school involvement, class, ethnicity, or gender, life contexts or barriers, perception of the invitation to participate) student factors (age, talents, difficulties, and behaviors) and factors between parents and teachers (goals, attitudes, language) societal factors (demographics, politics, economics). A combination of these factors results in varying differences in parental involvement in the classroom. Taking a closer look …show more content…
“Interaction between the two spheres is at a maximum when the school and the family function as genuine partners within an overall program that includes a number of shared activities.”(Olmstead, 2013, p30). I feel, an easy way to do such, is technology. A simple way to include parents in the classroom and keep them up to date on student learning is through
While teachers may be reaching out to families, these families may not be receiving the information in ways intended. The article Barriers to parental involvement in education: an explanatory model, by Hornby and Lafaele, looks at the factors that affect the involvement of family in education. While many parents and families want to take an active role in their students education, not all are capable of providing the essential support needed based on various factors. Hornby and Lafaele hit on topics related to the parent (feelings about school involvement, class, ethnicity, or gender, life contexts or barriers, perception of the invitation to participate) student factors (age, talents, difficulties, and behaviors) and factors between parents and teachers (goals, attitudes, language) societal factors (demographics, politics, economics). A combination of these factors results in varying differences in parental involvement in the classroom. Taking a closer look …show more content…
“Interaction between the two spheres is at a maximum when the school and the family function as genuine partners within an overall program that includes a number of shared activities.”(Olmstead, 2013, p30). I feel, an easy way to do such, is technology. A simple way to include parents in the classroom and keep them up to date on student learning is through