Family Involvement

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2. What do you know about family involvement in
education?
 Have parents always been involved in children’s
schools?
 What are the forces that bring parents into
working partnerships in education?
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3. 
Parenting
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Communicating
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Volunteering
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Learning at home
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Decision making
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Collaborating with the community
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5. 
Research on parent involvement
◦ Parents as most important factor in child’s optimum
development
◦ Studies on school success related to parental
involvement
◦ Studies in programs such as Head Start and Early
Head Start, Perry Preschool Project, and
Abcedarian Study.
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6. 
Mandates—parent participation is
required
◦ Head Start
◦ Title I: family centered education
◦ IDEA legislation for education of children
with special needs
◦ Child Care and Development Fund
(CCDF)
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Mandates (continued)
◦ No Child Left Behind legislation
◦ Early Child Environmental Rating Scale
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Professional recommendations
◦ National Association for the Education of Young Children
(NAEYC) accreditation
◦ NAEYC Code of Ethics
◦ NAEYC position statement on Developmentally
Appropriate Practice (DAP)
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9. • Professional recommendations (continued)
– NAEYC standards for professional
preparation
– National PTA standards for family
involvement
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Community concern and efforts to strengthen
families to counteract
social problems
◦ State-funded family support programs
◦ Individual community efforts
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11. If research shows benefits of parent involvement,
and many educational programs mandate such
involvement, why are not all teachers working to
create partnerships with families?
 Why do communities feel that parent involvement
in education benefits all? How does this tie in with
what you read about factors that impact families in
Chapter 2?
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12. 
There are three main forces that encourage family
involvement in their children’s education:
◦ Research that indicates importance of parental
interaction in children’s development and school
success.
◦ Mandates from various funding and accreditation
sources
◦ Community need for strong families.
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