WEEK 3 - FULL

Required Resources

1. Read from your text, Differentiated Parent Support: Engaging Parents in Unique Ways to Increase Their Involvement in School:
• Chapter Five – Barriers of Parent Involvement
• Chapter Six – Tier One: The Ideal Parent
  
  
2. Griffin, D. & Steen, S. (2010). School-Family-Community Partnerships: Applying Epstein's Theory of the Six 
   Types of Involvement to School Counselor Practice.Professional School Counseling, 13(4), 218-226. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
   • This article investigates involvement in partnerships using Epstein's six types of school-family-community involvement interactions (i.e., parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision-making, and collaborating with the community).

Discussions

1. Partnerships
    
   Discern what Hjalmarson (2011) means when she states, “Rather than expecting parents to adapt to us, we need to create a parent involvement system that meets parents’ diverse needs” (p. 45).
   
   Do you recall, as a K-12 student, certain educators who provided leadership in partnership activities?  Please give specific examples about those partnerships.  Describe those partnerships.  How did they impact your educational experience? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
    
2. Leadership Roles 
    
   Who should take the leadership role in organizing outreach programs to the parents, the family, and the community?  What specific strategies would you employ? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

Journal

Epstein's Six

Thinking about the readings and your authentic personal experience, based on Epstein’s six types of involvement interactions, which ones have you observed?

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries. 

Assignment

Exploring the Role of Parents

Effective parent-school relationships begin with classroom teacher and individual parents. While parents clearly know their children best, as education professionals, classroom teachers need to take the lead in establishing and maintaining these relationships. Moreover, the most effective relationships take the form of a partnership between parent and teacher/school. This partnership arrangement is of the most benefit to the student.

In a two- to five-page paper (not including the title page and reference page), describe the steps necessary to establish and maintain an effective parent-teacher relationship through addressing the following:

• Describe the role of parents and teachers in developing and utilizing an effective parent/teacher relationship. 
  
• Explain how each party knows whether or not the relationship is effective, including criteria used to determine this. 
  
• Describe how students benefit from this relationship. 
  

Be sure to include at least three scholarly sources (not including your textbook), cited and referenced according to APA as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, to support your ideas.

 

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.