Parents’ Involvement in Their Students’ Education.
Parents
are the first aspect that determines children future life and who have a
connection the most with the children’s desires, needs, and interests. Children
who finally become successful in their lives, normally influenced by their
parents’ upbringing at home and parents’ involvement at their children
education. International proof suggests that parents with high aspirations are
involved more in their children’s education (Gutman and Akerman, 2008). It
means that encouragement of the parents for their children to pursue the
brighter future may shapes the children’s educational ideology which become a
motive of students’ successful academic studies. Further research also found
out an evidence that higher levels of parental involvement are related to academic
success for children (Epstein, 2001). However, this paper will discuss the
parents role for their children better education accomplishment during
preschool and upper grades .
Parents
can take a part comprehensively in their children learning from preschool
stage. As stated by Davis in her study (2000), parents can give a significant
impact to a child’s achievement from early childhood through high school. This
statement literally agrees toward a statement that “home and family are the
primer school for the children”. The parents involvement at home can be started
by helping the children to have basic skill in reading, writing and numeracy.
The illustration of improving these skills is also explained by Davis (2000)
that talking and playing with infants, reading bedtime stories with toddlers,
playing math and reading games can help the children establishing appropriate
boundaries when they are about attending the elementary school. Parents are the
major aspects of a child successful learning in their early childhood who can
help improving their fundamental insight for their future academic learning and
achievement.
Parental participation in school also affects a lot in students
improvement in their academic and non-academic aspects. It will increase
student’s learning whether the child is in preschool or beyond, whether or not
the family is struggling economically or is affluent, or whether the parents
just graduated from high school or graduated from college ( Epstein, 1991;
Henderson, & Berla, 1994; Liontos, 1992; Reynolds, et al., 1991; Zellman,
G.L., & Waterman, J.M., 1998). It explicitly turns out the proof that
parent’s educational background does not matter the students’ successful in
learning, but how they manage totally in participating through their children
learning has a prominent effect on their children achievement in education at
school. The involvement of parents in school can result higher grades and test
scores, better attendance, more homework completed, more positive attitudes and
behaviours, higher graduation for the children (Clark, R., 1993; Griffith, J.,
1996; Dauber, S.L. & Epstein J.L., 1993). Further advantages also proposed
by Brown (2009) that researchers report of parent participation in
their children's schooling can enhance children's self-esteem, improve
children's academic achievement, and improve better understanding of the
schooling process.
To conclude, the parents’ participation in their children's
education affect the students’ achievement in education and can bring benefit
for both of them to improve parent-child relationships. The parents’
involvement can be started during preschool or early childhood and beyond.
During preschool parents can help their children having a really basic skill in
reading, numeracy, and writing. As they start studying in the primer school,
parents can also constribute a lot in their successful academic accomplishment.
Parental involvement in education will be really meaningful for every child’s
improvement and career life success.
References
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Harman, J., Hutchinson, D., Kinder, K., Moor,H., and Wilkin, A. (1997). Family
Literacy Lasts, cited in Desforges, C and Abouchaar, A. (2003). The
Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil
Achievement and Adjustment: A Literature Review. DfES Research Report 433.
Epstein, J. L. "Home
and School Connections in Schools of the Future: Implications of Research on Parent
Involvement." Peabody Journal of Education 62(1985): 18-41.
Gutman, L.M. and Akerman, R.
(2008). Determinants of Aspirations. Centre for Research on the Wider
Benefits of Learning Research Report 27. London: Institute of Education
Davis, Deborah (2000). Supporting
Parent, Family, and Community Involvement in Your School. Northwest
Regional Educational Laboratory
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