Home-school connection
Introduction
Home-school connection, also referred to as home-school collaboration, parent-school involvement, family engagement, family involvement, parent involvement, parent engagement, etc. refers to the active involvement of parents in school matters.
Parent school involvement seems to be particularly useful to favor the integration of culturally and socially diverse populations.
Ponciano (2014) [1] looked the home-school connection, i.e. parent engagement, through technology, i.e. the use of the ABCmouse environment. “A strong connection between home and school, particularly in early childhood, has long been considered the key to educational success (Beveridge, 2005; Esler, Godber, & Christenson, 2002; Hara, 1998; Jeynes, 2007). In K-12, research has found that parental engagement leads to higher achievement in math and reading (Griffith, 1996; Sui-Chu & Willms, 1996). Moreover, research on parental engagement in early childhood has found higher skills in language and literacy (Marcon, 1999; Sheridan, Knoche, Kupzyk, Edwards, & Marvin, 2011).”
NAEYC principles of parent engagement
The (American) National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC, retrieved May 1 2019), defines six principles for family engagement:
1. Programs invite families to participate in decision making and goal setting for their child.
2. Teachers and programs engage families in two-way communication.
3. Programs and teachers engage families in ways that are truly reciprocal.
4. Programs provide learning activities for the home and in the community.
5. Programs invite families to participate in program-level decisions and wider advocacy efforts.
6. Programs implement a comprehensive program-level system of family engagement.
References
Cited with footnotes
- ↑ Ponciano, L. (2014, March). Creating a home-school connection in early childhood through technology: Parent engagement and ABCmouse. com. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1920-1926). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Other
Beveridge, S. (2005). Children, families, and schools: Developing partnerships for inclusive education. London: Routledge Falmer.
Esler, A. N., Godber, Y., & Christenson, S. L. (2002). Best practices in supporting home-school collaboration. In A. Thomas & T. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology IV. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.
Hara, S. R. (1998). Parent involvement: The key to improved student achievement. School Community Journal, 8(2), 9-19.
Jeynes, W. H. (2007). The relationship between parental involvement and urban secondary school student academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Urban Education, 42(1), 82-110. doi: 10.1177/0042085906293818