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    Lauren Hughes 2.1 Family Engagement 4.6.1 Describing The Advantages and Importance of Family or Caregiver Involvement in Learner Development

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    Family engagement is important for student success but difficult for teachers given different parent personalities and involvement levels. Research shows students perform better and stay in school longer when parents are involved. Teachers must be flexible and use multiple approaches like newsletters, parent-teacher conferences, and meetings to engage families. Student-led conferences teach skills while informing parents and addressing issues. Overall, parent communication and involvement benefits students, parents, teachers, and schools.

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    Family engagement is important for student success but difficult for teachers given different parent personalities and involvement levels. Research shows students perform better and stay in school longer when parents are involved. Teachers must be flexible and use multiple approaches like newsletters, parent-teacher conferences, and meetings to engage families. Student-led conferences teach skills while informing parents and addressing issues. Overall, parent communication and involvement benefits students, parents, teachers, and schools.

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    Lauren Hughes

    2.1 Family Engagement

    4.6.1 Describing the advantages and importance of family or caregiver involvement in

    learner development

    Family engagement is a huge obstacle for teachers to maneuver. Students come to school

    and it is the teachers job to make sure they are learning and excelling, however, once the students

    leave school and go home the teachers cannot monitor or motivate these students. This is where

    parent involvement is vital. The National Center for Education Statistics wrote an article about

    parent involvement in public elementary schools. The research provided in this article is from

    Strong Families, Strong Schools​ (U.S. Department of Education 1994) and it states, “when

    parents are involved in their children's learning, children earn higher grades and test scores, and

    they stay in school longer … when parents are involved in a variety of ways at school, the

    performance of all children in the school tends to improve,” (evidence 2.1.1). Parent involvement

    does not only help teachers and students, but parents and the school as well. For example,

    parents are more aware of their child's education and schools experience better community

    support (evidence 2.1.2). There are several types of involvement levels and personalities of

    parents that teachers will have to work with, and use several approaches to reach out and interact

    with the families.

    Similar to the students in a classroom, all parents have different personalities and

    outlooks on their child's education. Some parents are very involved in their child’s education and

    interactive with their teachers, some may be involved but don’t communicate with the teacher,

    and others may not be involved at all. There are countless variations of parent engagement which
    makes it difficult for teachers to find one way to successfully interact with families. This forces

    teachers to be flexible and patient. For example, a student is put in a regular math class. The

    parents make their child switch to the more advanced math class and refuse to keep them in the

    class they were put in. A few weeks into the year the student is caught cheating on a test because

    the advanced class is too hard. This scenario is an example of a demanding parent; the parents

    expect more from their child than what the child can achieve. So, as a teacher what do you do? In

    this case, a few options may include talking to the student first to see how they feel and what

    class they think they should be in or schedule a meeting via phone call or email with the parent

    to have a conversation about the student. The conversion could be giving the parents an

    opportunity to understand that grades are not as important as the student retaining and

    understanding the content or giving them the chance to switch the class and show that their

    student could excel with his/her own knowledge (2.1.3).

    In addition to contacting parents separately when issues arise or special accomplishments

    are made, teachers can provide general weekly information for all parents by sending out

    newsletters. Newsletters can be sent via email or even printed out and sent home with the

    students. These newsletters can include information about homework for the week, upcoming

    events at school, “star students”, what the class is currently learning or anything relevant to the

    class and school that parents should be aware of (2.1.4). These should be an easy and quick read

    for the parents, especially for very busy parents who may have trouble finding time to engage in

    their child’s education. This gives parents an easy and quick opportunity to be in the loop and

    know what their child is doing and what they may need to do at home.

    Student led parent - teacher conferences are also another way to engage parents as well as

    teaching students skills such as communication, organization and goal setting. While preparing
    for these conferences teachers need to include the students but make sure they reach out to

    parents as well just in case the message doesn’t make it home. A way to do this could be to have

    the students make a flyer as a class to send home but then also send an email telling parents that

    a flyer should be coming home and giving extra information. During the conference students

    could talk about what they are proud of and what they could work on from the previous quarter

    as well as goals they want to achieve during the remainder of the year. The teacher should also

    make sure the parents have his/her email and know that if they have any questions or concerns

    they can reach out. After the conferences the teacher could also hold one-on-one meetings with

    each student and talk about how they felt during the conference and give feedback (2.1.5).

    Finding one way to successfully engage with families is very difficult which is why

    teachers need to be flexible, open minded and patient. Family engagement has been proven to

    increase a students performance including higher test scores, grades and they stay in school

    longer. Not only does a parent being active in their child's academic life benefit the student, but

    also the parents, teachers and school of the student. Parents communicating with teachers and

    being involved with their child is vital for everyone's success.

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