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Parental Involvement in Child'S Education: The Role of Parents

1) Research shows that parental involvement in a child's education improves academic performance, reduces absenteeism, and increases parental confidence. Students with involved parents earn higher grades and test scores. 2) Parents act as role models for learning from an early age by exploring nature, reading together, and doing activities that integrate learning into everyday life. As children grow, parents become learning coaches who help organize time and support interests. 3) Maintaining open communication, finding out what interests a child, reading together regularly, and connecting learning to real-world examples helps children take charge of their education. Limiting TV and learning something new yourself also models the learning process.

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Parental Involvement in Child'S Education: The Role of Parents

1) Research shows that parental involvement in a child's education improves academic performance, reduces absenteeism, and increases parental confidence. Students with involved parents earn higher grades and test scores. 2) Parents act as role models for learning from an early age by exploring nature, reading together, and doing activities that integrate learning into everyday life. As children grow, parents become learning coaches who help organize time and support interests. 3) Maintaining open communication, finding out what interests a child, reading together regularly, and connecting learning to real-world examples helps children take charge of their education. Limiting TV and learning something new yourself also models the learning process.

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PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILDS EDUCATION

The Role of Parents

Introduction
Ongoing research shows that family engagement in schools improves student
achievement, reduces absenteeism, and restores parents' confidence in their
children's education. Students with involved parents or other caregivers earn
higher grades and test scores, have better social skills, and show improved
behavior.
Although a parents role in their childrens learning evolves as kids grow, one thing
remains constant: we are our childrens learning models. Our attitudes about
education can inspire theirs and show them how to take charge of their own
educational journey.
Be a role model for learning. In the early years, parents are their childrens first
teachers exploring nature, reading together, cooking together, and counting
together. When a young child begins formal school, the parents job is to show him
how school can extend the learning you began together at home, and how exciting
and meaningful this learning can be. As preschoolers grow into school age kids,
parents become their childrens learning coaches. Through guidance and reminders,
parents help their kids organize their time and support their desires to learn new
things in and out of school.
Pay attention to what your child loves. One of the most important things a
parent can do is notice her child. Is he a talker or is he shy? Find out what interests
him and help him explore it. Let your child show you the way he likes to learn.
Set aside time to read together. Read aloud regularly, even to older kids. If your
child is a reluctant reader, reading aloud will expose her to the structure and
vocabulary of good literature and get her interested in reading more. Reading the
first two chapters of a book together can help, because these are often the toughest
in terms of plot, notes Susan Becker, M. Ed. Also try alternating: you read one
chapter aloud, she reads another to herself. And let kids pick the books they like.
Book series are great for reluctant readers. Its OK to read easy, interesting books
instead of harder novels.
Connect what your child learns to everyday life. Make learning part of your
childs everyday experience, especially when it comes out of your childs natural
questions. When you cook together, do measuring math. When you drive in the car,
count license plates and talk about the states. When you turn on the blender,
explore how it works together. When your child studies the weather, talk about why
it was so hot at the beach. Have give-and-take conversations, listening to your
childs ideas instead of pouring information into their heads.
Connect what your child learns to the world. Find age-appropriate ways to help
your older child connect his school learning to world events. Start by asking
questions. For example, ask a second-grader if she knows about a recent event, and
whats she heard. Then ask what she could do to help (such as sending supplies to
hurricane victims). You might ask a younger child if hes heard about anything the
news, and find out what he knows. This will help your child become a caring learner.

Help your child take charge of his learning. We want to keep children in
charge of their learning and become responsible for it, says Dalton Miller-Jones,
Ph.D. We want them to be responsible for their successes and failures, show them
how engaging learning is, and that the motivations for learning should be the childs
intrinsic interests, not an external reward.
Keep TV to a minimum. Watching lots of TV does not give children the chance to
develop their own interests and explore on their own, because it controls the
agenda, However, unstructured time with books, toys, crafts and friends allows
children to learn how to be in charge of their agenda, and to develop their own
interests, skills, solutions and expertise.
Learn something new yourself. Learning something new yourself is a great way
to model the learning process for your child. Take up a new language or craft, or
read about an unfamiliar topic. Show your child what you are learning and how you
may be struggling. Youll gain a better understanding of what your child is going
through and your child may learn study skills by watching you study. You might even
establish a joint study time.
Dont do the homework for your child. Most teachers use homework to find out
what the child knows. They do not want parents doing their childrens homework but
do want parents to make sure homework is completed and review any mistakes to
see what can be learned from them.

Find out how your child studies best. You should find the ways your child likes
to study. For example, some kids will learn spelling words by writing them out,
others by closing their eyes and picturing them and saying them aloud, advises
teacher Susan Becker, M. Ed. The sound environment is also important, adds
Michael Thompson, Ph.D. Some kids may want to listen to music, some are helped
by being in the middle of noise, others need absolute quiet.

Effects of parents involvement in their childrens education:


Research on parental involvement in what their children are doing in school reveal
the following:
Pre-school good parenting provides for security, intellectual stimulation and a
good self-esteem.
Modelling of constructive social and educational aspirations and values relating
to personal fulfillment and good citizenship rub off on their wards.
Contacting the childs teachers to keep abreast of the schools rules and
procedures, the curriculum, homework and assessment and all such related matters
instill a sense of commitment in the children.
Visiting their childrens schools to discuss issues that concern them bring the
best out in them.
Participating in their childrens school events brings parents closer to their
childrens teachers to know how such children are faring.

Conclusion:
Since parents are not only models and mirror to their children, they must put their
home in order to reduce and/or erase the high incidence of single parenting while
working class parents should not neglect the welfare and up-bringing of their
children even as they pursue their career.
Although it is the duty of parents to provide for their children, protect and defend
them, this should be pursed within the ambit of decency and reason. The position of
some affluent parents who over-indulge their children and as such abhour hardship
for them is always counter-productive, often working against the interest of such
children.
It should always be borne in mind that what parents do with children at home,
particularly during the childrens school years, is much more significant than any
other factor open to educational influence.

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