Module Two Discussion Board Forum

Parents' involvement in their children's education has numerous benefits like improving the child's self-esteem, academic performance and improving the child-parent relationship. Despite all these advantages, some parents keep off their children's education. The following are some solutions I came up with to bring parents back to the classroom.

One solution would be to make the parent feel listened to. Parents who feel like they are discriminated against probably need an audience to their views, mainly because they have poor educational backgrounds. The NAECY standards 2a prescribes understanding of all communities, 2b of the same standards encourages reciprocal relations between stakeholders and families.

Another way to encourage parents is to create activities in school that involve parents and their children. The events should foster accommodation of all cultures and ethnicities. This will lead to cohesion and a feeling of inclusivity among parents. In the event, parents and children are given an educational activity to take part in together. The event should be primarily educational based, not a funfair type of activity.

Further, certain activities could be designed to be incorporated with home activities that parents and children share. For example, teachers could start a simple discussion topic at school, that is, culture accommodative. The discussion could then be extended home and continued the next day. At home, parents and children will have interactions that encourage involvement in the education of the child.

Teachers need to know the best ways parents like to communicate. This is because a good communication establishment builds a longer-lasting fruitful reciprocal relationship that will benefit the child's education. There might be a communication misunderstanding due to culture

or socioeconomic discrimination that disengages a parent. By establishing better communication protocols, the parents will feel much more engaged as prescribed in the NAECY 2b.