- Parents increase their interaction and discussion with their children and are more responsive and sensitive to their children's social, emotional, and intellectual developmental needs.
- Parents are more confident in their parenting and decision-making skills.
- As parents gain more knowledge of child development, there is more use of affection and positive reinforcement and less punishment on their children.
- Parents have a better understanding of the teacher's job and school curriculum.
(These benefits are only naming a few)
There are many websites that have helped me research about the benefits, the facts, and suggestions about how to increase parental involvement within schools. But working along side many teachers and directors of a center, provides me with the best resources and information. To hear and see the problems, the outcomes, the attempts, the challenges, and the successes daily with these teachers and families has given me more of my own personal challenge to address this issue/plan to more families around. Parental involvement is important, so how do you as an educator promote it within your own classroom or center?
I plan to present my plan to various teachers and the assistant director of the center I have been observing. From there I hope that the teachers can take some of the suggestions I have found and become more aware of the importance of inviting families in their classrooms. I also hope to gain more insight and suggestions from discussing within a group and gain information from one another. I may consider inviting a few parents as well but I'm not sure if I'm that confident yet. My question to others is, who are you presenting to and how to you plan to address your advocacy plan?
