Essays on Parental Involvement

Analysis

The article ‘Barriers to Parental Involvement in Education: An Explanatory Model’ covers the issue of the parental involvement and characteristic features. Nowadays more and more schools establish a program of the parent involvement. Though, the influence of the established relationship between parents and teacher, on the one hand, and parents and children, on the other hand, produces more and more positives outcomes, there are still barriers, which serve as a negative impact in this process.

What part(s) of the article do you agree with and disagree with the most? Why?

I totally agree with the statement that the parental involvement in the teaching-learning process may vary depending on different factors. It is too generalized ...

Literature Review

The literature review was conducted in relevant academic journals that relate to elementary school-aged obesity. In essence, the review was carried out on home-based interventions, school-based interventions effectiveness, and sustainability of the methods adopted in curtailing obesity.

Obesity Epidemic

Childhood obesity is linked with severe health risks. Primarily, obesity is associated with diabetes mellitus, increased risk of coronary heart disease, orthopedic complications, and more stress on weight-bearing joints, and lastly, it is a cause of pediatric hypertension (CDC, 2016). Moreover, hospital costs associated with the treatment of obesity are dramatically high. Besides, being obese can set back children psychosocial status. In ...

Parents are the first to guide children in their individual, social, academic and professional development, as they are the first point of contact for their youngsters. Even when they grow up and enter a formal educational program, parents are still important actors in providing children with education and guidance in life. This is why, it is recommended designing a family life educational (FLE) program that addresses parent education and guidance. This FLE program would provide an understanding of how parents teach and influence their children and adolescence to make sound decisions throughout their life. The program is also intended ...

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Introduction

A community sports project aims at increasing participation in a particular sport through nurturing talent and making playing the sport enjoyable for young people. These projects are carried out by sports coaches who provide quality coaching and physical activities for the children. The project I was involved in was coaching football to teenagers between the ages of 16 and 17 years at Barking Football Club. My experience coaching the teenagers was very helpful as I got to work on my weaknesses and utilize my strengths. Before the project, I did not have a lot of confidence ...

Abortion is the process of destroying a human fetus while in the womb (Grimes, 2013). This topic is considered to be one of the most controversial issues globally (Grimes, 2013). The support or disapproval of this practice has a potential of eliciting mixed reactions since it involves human life. The United States Constitution legalized abortion in 1973. From this period, more than 50 million abortions have been procured (Dennis et al., 2009). In as much as this subject remains a highly controversial issue, abortions obtained by minors elicit an even higher degree of interest and involvement. Therefore, this paper ...

Currently, in all American states, sexually active teens can access contraceptives even if they do not talk about sex and pregnancy with their parents and even without the consent of the parents. Contraceptives are the devices or drugs that are used to prevent a person from getting a pregnancy that is not planned for. Some contraceptives like condoms even avoid the transmission of STDs and HIV. However, some federal and state lawmakers wish to take away the ability by teenagers to protect themselves and other involved parties like their parents, partners and babies (Eichner & Maxine 87). They would like ...

Introduction

Child rearing encompasses the diverse practices of parenting meant to instill different attitudes and behavior in children. John Locke proposed the idea that children are born devoid of any values and beliefs and that these are conveyed to them by the society which they are born into (Spera 125). Child rearing entails a process of transmitting skills, attitudes, and behaviors to the young to assist their integration into a cultural community (Spera 126). Parents are amongst the most influential agents of socialization that interact with children through the child rearing process. Child rearing practices include parental involvement in the ...

Abstract

The number of child delinquents has increased significantly within the last decade. It is a major cause for concern since these children tend to become serious, violent, and chronic offenders while in their teen years. Based on the observation, this study sought to answer the question of what are the effects of parental involvement on criminal outcomes in children. The participants of this study are college students with the history of delinquency. The research uses the survey method as the experimental approach, and the data collection uses the administration of a questionnaire. The study targets 500 participants in the ...

Introduction of Topic and How It Relates to Education

It is widely acknowledged that the educational process is very important for community improvement. A person develops under various circumstances, but there are basic factors which impact every person, no matter how different his/her life is – that is family (first of all, parents and also siblings and relatives) and educational institution (school, college, etc.). The family is the first environment the child is born and develops in. It is the place where a person establishes his psychological, social, physical, mental, and behavioral character. Parents’ influence lays the ground to the majority of future achievements and failures of a child ...

Writing Different Types of Hypothesis

Writing Different Types of Hypothesis Parents who assume that the intelligence of children and their achievement ability is mainly because they are lucky enough to obtain higher abilities, they often do not see the point of involving themselves in the education of their children. They assume that children’s innate ability will have particular limitation about their achievement so that things that involve encouraging children or participating in school meetings are but a waste of time. On the other hand, parents who believe that performance of children in school is due to efforts, and their abilities and those child ...

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Introduction Poor student development has been established to stem from the inability of teachers to effectively manage classroom behaviour, also stemming from ineffective instructional strategies. As teachers show a diminished capacity to support and respond to students’ needs, student rates of misbehaviour and poor academic performance will continue. The unproductive, unengaged environment of classrooms run by teachers without adequate classroom management skills results in a need to examine the efficacy of classroom management as a practice in addressing these problems. The following literature review examines the existing literature related to classroom management, providing a definition of classroom management, determining its effectiveness, and ...

Introduction

The achievement gap in formal schooling between African American children and other groups is stark. This has proven consistent over time (Coleman, et al, 1966), across jurisdictions (Clotfelter, Ladd & Vigdor, 2009; Bailey & Dziko, 2008), and throughout the K-12 system (The National Center for Education Statistics, 2014). Improving these issues is an obvious direction forward. Yet, the obstacles are numerous and multifaceted (Sanacore, 2004). Relative to the public domain, the school system is often targeted for a lack of understanding in relation to educating young African Americans of low socio-economic status. The curriculum is long been criticized for being de-contextualized to ...

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It is commonly known that children are the young individuals who have not reached the age of majority, and are the offspring of their natural parents. Starting from the end of the 19th century, the roles of family and children in particular have begun shifting, and remain changing up to these days. The relationships between children and parents have been the subjects of studies of many disciplines, starting from psychology and early child development to economics and politics. Parental involvement (regarded as "the interaction and assistance provided by parents to children" (Blair, 2014) into the developmental ...

Education

Introduction

Child development is a crucial process that considers different nuances. In the process of development, a child faces a variety of issues that require constant motivation and guidance. Ideally, the life of a child revolves around motivation and achievements. Motivation in child development refers to the act of arousing a person or a being into appropriate actions with a goal that is desirable in mind. In the child, several actions and goals lay in the future. Learning becomes a vital aspect in this case. Motivation, therefore, dwells upon appropriating critical desires to perform an action. Motivation can either be intrinsic (internally driven) or extrinsic (environmentally driven). ...

Video Game Violence and its effects on children

Abstract This was a single subject case study to evaluate the effects of video games on children. In this study, a case of 14- year- old boy was evaluated to check whether the problems he faced were the result of long- term exposure to video games. The 14- year- old boy was administered with sedatives and anticoagulants to treat deep vein thrombosis. He underwent FMRI scans, cognitive inhibition- counting test and emotional interference tests designed to see his brain activity and response to different stimulus. The FMRI scans and the results of the tests were recorded and compared with the ...

and Children’s Academic Outcomes? and Children’s Academic Outcomes?

Introduction

There are different ways in which the academic development of children is affected by the manner by which parents relate with them. Child Psychologists, other scholars and parents as well have worked to create the foundation of theories that demonstrates the considerable influence of parenting style on the performance of a child in and out of school. The recent interest in conducting research over the effect of parent-child relationship in the development of a child grew out of the increasing alarm over todays youngsters diminishing social, educational and health status. ...

While motivation is essential to all ages, it is of paramount importance and has become a big issue in secondary education. Motivation plays a crucial part with success in student education and later in adulthood. Parents have the utmost impact on adolescents when it comes to expectations and goals. The lack of parental involvement has become a major issue for many public schools. In order to change how students value their education, parents have to be involved at home, school and set expectations for their children. While there is extensive research on strategies for teachers to use to help motivate students, such ...

Education in Kuwait

The education system of Kuwait is large. There are many students enrolled in this nation. The total number of students enrolled in schools amounts to 30% of the entire population of Kuwait. Three levels of education exist in this nation. It includes elementary level of education, intermediate and secondary level of education. The students enrolled in this nation spend four years at each level of education. The children start schooling at the age of six. However, the pre-schooling age is 4 years (Biswas 67). After completion of the elementary, primary and secondary levels of education students are allowed to ...

Parental Involvement and Early Intervention for Children with Autism 2

Introduction The purpose of this study is to determine if parental training and early intervention for parents of children with Autism is beneficial. In recent years. The incidence of children diagnosed with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder has dramatically increased. Many studies have indicated that early intervention techniques for children with Autism is beneficial in their development. Often these interventions are provided by professionals such as speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists and behavioral therapists. These early interventions can be obtained either privately or through early intervention programs provided by school systems. Training for Parents can be obtained ...

Parental involvement in the education of children has been described by Hornby (2011) as the participation of parents in the educational process and experience of their children. It can be noted, however, that parental involvement is not limited to parents alone, but it may also refer to individuals who exercise parental roles in children. Literature studies provide that the earlier the parents get involved in their children’s education, the better its positive effects to the child. The role of parents in moulding their children’s values begin during their child’s early development. Children spend the majority of ...

Children are the future resource of the nation. Growth, development and education of children is extremely important. The responsibility of bringing up children and shaping their characters is a collective responsibility of parents, schools and the community. Unfortunately, some parents think that it is the sole responsibility of the school. On the other hand, teachers emphasize that children spend only few hours in a day at school; hence, the major responsibility lies with the parents. “Closing the achievement gap and increasing student learning requires the collaboration of various interested groups, most notably parents. Families play an important role in creating a school ...

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Introduction Of all the laws of the nation with regard to education, NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and IDEA (Individual with Disabilities Education Act) are unequivocally the most important. Together these two acts ensure the future of the nation’s young population. NCLB ensures that all children receive education irrespective of race, economic status, or other discrimination. And IDEA provides for the special needs of children with disabilities. NCLB also includes children with disabilities. As far as school education is concerned these laws take care of all students in the United States. But are these laws alone enough ...

Parental involvement refers to the spontaneous contributions of parents towards children learning both at home and in the formal programs that aim at enhancing the child’s literacy during school and pre-school years. There is a variation in the views of researchers on the ways in which the home environment influences children’s’ performance in school, the degree to which parents should get involved and the effectiveness of parents’ intervention. Strategies involving support and training for parents such as paired reading have been highly regarded as most effective (Aram and Ofra 118). Parental involvement on children’s learning is linked ...

Introduction

Children, before they reach the age of maturity, are constantly developing, both mentally as well as physically. They learn new things about life, learn how to control their emotions, act in accordance with the social norms, and conform to the behavioral expectations kept of them. Their behaviors are influenced by many factors. Some factors are external surrounding the child's environment, and some are internal, involving inherent characteristics and physical abilities (Drinkworth, 2014). Some of the external factors that influence children's behavior include the culture and the social environment in which they grow up, the influence of parents, and the ...

This essay seeks to address the ``advantages and disadvantages’ ‘of parental involvement. Parental involvement entails parent’s participation to the school and the child. Parental involvement entails assisting the school and the child and takes various forms. Some of parental involvement activities include; volunteering as teachers in schools, helping children to complete home works and attending parents’ seminars in schools. Parental involvement has various advantages that include and is not limited to; regular attendances by the children. We find that children whose parents engage in school involvement have a proper school attendance records compared to those children whose parents ...

The power of influence shapes the life of a person in various ways. From birth, the parents play a huge role that contributes to the adoption of certain attitudes and behaviors. However, at a later stage in life, celebrities’ influences children to act in specific ways and this may contradict with the influence brought by the parents. If the parents fail to be keen on their children to avoid the influence from celebrities, the children may copy the celebrity's dressing mode, their behaviors and social life. Celebrities may also contribute to the way interaction in the community level is conducted.

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Validation of Principal Efficacy Survey– Rationale for Adding New Questions to the

ABSTRACT In the process of validating principal self-efficacy connected to the corroborated Megan Tschannen-Moran Survey, important gaps in the questionnaire exist. The academic work presented here provides the essential and missing questions needing asked by principals in assessing the efficacy of his/her performance as an administrator, innovator, and advocate for quality educational practices in the 21st century. These suggested questions look at principal management abilities, consider the diversity of the demographics of public school learners and their families, professional development necessary for instructors' ability for enhancing teaching, and the critical acknowledgement educational technology. Key Words: principal, self-efficacy, ...

Research Paper Statistics

INTRODUCTION - Rationale Studies indicate that students who participate in extracurricular activities do better than those who do not participate in these activities. Data acquired from the study reveal that among the students who were surveyed, watching television, playing sports and participating in various community services greatly develops academic performance, however, it was also revealed that playing musical instruments do not quite improve academic performance. Conclusively, the study shows that indeed extracurricular activities influence academic performance, subsequently; this effect depends on students’ involvement in various activities. - Problem

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- Introduction: - The importance of education - Homework is a great avenue for retention if applied in moderation. - Thesis: homework is not helpful if it is given in large amounts. - Initial Defense of Thesis - Health issues - Difficulty in prescribing work - What constitutes too much? - Consequences and Parental Guidance a. Examples of excessive homework: volume and difficulty - Confidence issues - Retention of details compared to moderately assigned homework - Performance on assessments. - Conclusion - Reiteration of the necessity ...

Can Parental Involvement Reduce Teenage Gang Involvement?

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Literature Review

Determining the whether parental involvement can reduce teenage gang involvement begins with the exploration of the related researches. Knowing the extent of the problem is detrimental in identifying the role of parental involvement to the issues of teenage involvement to gangs from which preventive measures can be formulated. According to Howell (2010) gang violence became a widespread problem among community and to several countries in the world. In addition, the demographics of the people joining are constantly becoming younger. In South American region, the age of gang members go as young as eight years old. In other part ...

Sue'Ann Easterling PE 551 Race in sports or athletics June 19, 2013 1 of 6

Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328 The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

Introduction

Alcohol consumption is endemic in the US with 80% youngsters under the age of 21 being involved in underage drinking. Despite the minimum legal drinking age set at 21, studies show that almost all the youths start drinking alcohol before crossing the threshold of 21. The trend among youngsters to drink heavily than adults is alarming. Alcohol abuse among youngsters is more prevalent than smoking tobacco or marijuana. As per the report presented by CDC, over 4,700 annual deaths occurring in the US are associated with underage drinking and more than 90% youngsters who use alcohol involve in ...

While people believe that it is the responsibility of the child to excel academically, parents always want their children to be the best in academics. They always do their best to ensure that they children’s academic needs are met without any compromise. This heavy investment calls for a strict supervision and tagging of high targets for these children. However, whenever these targets are not met, a lot of psychological and behavioral problems that may have adverse effects on the affected children. Even though parents try their best to ensure their children excel, they still face psychological and behavioral challenges among ...

Literature review

The question of the effect of parental involvement on the reading achievements of students has been a major concern, which has caught the attention of several researchers, both in the United States and the whole world. Several immigrant students have not been meeting the state goals in reading. This incorporated with several other factors has made several social and education scientists and professionals to treat the problem with much attention as to the involvement of their parents in their reading and their concerns on the improvements of their kids. There are several research studies on parental involvement in their ...

Introduction

One of the most common sayings today is that every child born into the world is indeed very special. So what exactly do we mean when we talk about special needs children? A child with special needs is essentially one who requires extra help due to an emotional, learning, or a medical problem. They are called special needs children because they need the special therapy or medicine that those other children of the same age groups would not normally require. Examples of children who possess special needs are those suffering from illnesses such as diabetes, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, blindness, ...

Alcohol and substance abuse are significant problems amongst college students worldwide. Consumption of alcohol and other addictive substances is illegal in Saudia Arabia. The law in the country is based on Islamic Sharia rules that strictly forbid the consumption of these substances (Al-Haqwi). Despite this though, there have been numerous reports of drug trafficking (“Overview of drug control in Saudia Arabia”). Findings of surveys suggest that alcohol, hashish, cannabis, heroin, amphetamines, and heroin are the most abused drugs in the country (Al-Haqwi). In this paper the scope of alcohol and substance abuse amongst college students in Saudia Arabia and ...

Intellectual disability

The American Association of Intellectual and development disabilities defines intellectual disability or mental retardation as that form of disability that is characterized by significant limitations of both functional and intellectual behavior that is generally expressed in the social, adaptive and conceptual skills. It’s generally known to originate before the child reaches the age of 18 years.

Hardman, Drew and Egan, in their book, ‘Human Exceptionality: School, Community and Family’ adopt the above definition, with an assertion that the extend of the disability or rather the severity of the condition is influenced by the individuals participation and their interactions ...

Introduction

Growth of American Middle Class as a catalyst to cases of Childhood Obesity Obesity has been one of the greatest problems facing the United States today. Many people both young and old continue to die as a result of health complication results from obesity. Many scholars have, like Thomas Friedman has attributed the increased rates of obesity in the United States on the growing culture of consumerism within the American middle class. The continued economic stability within the advanced industrial nations has allowed many lower class people to move to the middle class. This means that the size of the ...

Home schooling refers to home education, and as the name suggest it implies that student is taught at home. Parents may prefer home education for three main reasons. One, they may not like the ideology in the curriculum and instead opt for their own ideologies which they administer at home. Two, parents can object the school curriculum on the grounds that the curriculum content and structure is pedagogically unsound. Lastly, and perhaps the most cited reason is that the private or public school is not the best fit for the family. Usually, these students struggle much in school due ...

Abstract

Childhood obesity currently exists as a substantial problem in the United States and other countries, due to a combination of factors stemming from a lack of physical activity and insufficient nutrition, among others (Brockman et al., 2010). These are just some of the factors relating to childhood obesity that are found in an individual's macrosystem; cultural and social attributes that surround children, as well as laws and customs, contribute heavily to childhood obesity. Due to the combined macrosystemic components that comprise an individual's socialization, multiple factors contribute to childhood obesity, including media depictions of fast food, limited access to healthy food for ...

Strategies and Models for Inclusive Education in Regular Classrooms

Ted is an elementary school student who suffers from autism and spina bifida. Although Ted requires a wheel chair and more efforts because of his difficulties in learning, his previous teachers have noted that Ted displays appropriate behavior, and he manages to perform his tasks with support from teachers and his family. On the other hand, Ted’s new teacher suggests that Ted would be better suited at a special school for children with disabilities than at a regular school. However, Ted’s social and academic integration are at stake once he joins a specialized school, so allowing Ted to attend regular classes ...