Home-school connection

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Introduction

Home-school connection, or family engagement or parent engagement refers to the active involvement of parents in school matters.

Ponciano (2014) [1] looked the home-school connection, i.e. parent engagement, through technology, i.e. the use of the ABCmouse environment. {{quotation|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

  1. 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).