Teachers And Parent Involvement

One of the most significant ecological contexts for children’s learning experience to occur is in a school and classrooms are the primary medium that facilitates children’s school experiences. Classroom teachers are an essential secondary agent of socialization in students’ lives, therefore teacher –student relationships is pivotal to students’ learning experiences (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998; Bowlby, 1969; McCormick, O’Connor, Cappella & McClowry, 2013). Additionally, the extent of the cooperation or discord in the relationship between a teacher and parent encompasses many factors such as a child’s academic skills and behavior experiences (Hughes & Kwok, 2007; Hughes, Lou, Kwok & Lloyd, 2008). Hence, the creation of supportive relationships between teachers and parents tend to foster a more positive behavioral outcome for students over time (Hamre & Pianta, 2001; O’Connor et al, 2011). Parent-teacher relationships may be especially important for low-income children because they tend to be at greater risk for significant behavioral and academic risk than children from higher-income areas (O’Donnell, Hawkins, Catelano, Abbott & Day, 1995).
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Based on this view, research has examined questions such as why, for whom, and under what conditions parent involvement is most effective (Pomerantz, Moorman, & Litwack, 2007). One perspective is parent–teacher relationship in schools. In order to differentiate between parent–teacher relationship and parent involvement, several distinctions between parent behaviors and activities and parent emotions and attitudes have been identified (Kohl et al., 2000; Rimm-Kaufman, La Paro, Downer, & Pianta, 2005; Vickers & Minke,