Positions on parental involvement in school life with benefits for preschoolers
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| Positions on parental involvement in school life with benefits for preschoolers |
Parental involvement in education and school life:
Studies have highlighted the promising role of parents in improving their children's learning if schools can involve and support parents in the educational process, as the partnership between home and school is very important because both work to achieve one common goal, which is education and socialization, cooperation and communication between parents and school achieve positive effects on the education and learning of children, and in light of this it is necessary to talk about the appropriate methods that make parents engage with the institution in the educational process, and these methods will be addressed in the form of situations in this axis:
Communication:
It means the process of communication between parents and educators to obtain information related to the child, his behavior, tendencies and interests, and this process is two-way, meaning that parents must provide information about the child at home and the educator, in turn, must put the parents in the picture to tell them about the child and his behaviors in the classroom, and this communication must be characterized by continuity.
Situation: At the end of the first session, the educator decided to hold a meeting with the parents to present and discuss the children's learning and achievements with them to avoid any confusion when they receive the evaluation grid.
Conclusion:
• Organize a meeting with parents during the school entry period in order to involve them to understand the methodology of the educational process during the school year.
• Communicate with parents at the end of the first session and the second session to provide a summary of the learnings gained by the children.
• Dedicating periods to communicate with parents individually to inform them of their children's progress or to collaborate on resolving certain issues.
Situation: During the week, the educator worked on the activity of learning about farm animals through the field of language expression and communication. During this activity, the children created drawings, colored pictures of farm animals, used educational games, and at the end of the week through the knowledge bag, the children took their achievements or games that helped them acquire and build learning for this activity to be shared and used with the parents.
Conclusion:
• Adopting various methods and techniques to communicate with parents, such as the knowledge bag method, which is a bag that enables the educator to communicate indirectly with parents and strengthen the relationship between the institution, the child and the family by showing them some examples of the activities completed during the week:
• Pictures, games, drawings, stories, child's achievements or supports that help the child acquire skills and learnings Every weekend, the child chooses an activity to take home in the bag to return at the beginning of the week.
• At home, the child opens his/her knowledge bag to explain its contents to his/her family to accompany him/her in using it, in addition to this, we find a technique:
Tree of acquisitions: The educator prepares a drawing of a tree without its leaves and displays it at the entrance of the classroom. Upon completion of each project, the educator places the leaves of the tree that will contain the children's acquisitions in the form of (sentences / pictures / children's achievements) and in this way parents will be able to see the development of their children's acquisitions.
Participation:
Situation: While preparing for the end of the school year party, Amal decided to involve parents in this celebration by suggesting some tasks that could be done by them (photographing the party, organizing the event, preparing the chairs .....)
Conclusion:
• Motivate parents to participate in the activities organized by the institution, such as helping to organize celebrations, competitions, and outings.
Decision-making:
Situation: on the occasion of an agricultural fair near the primary education unit, Amal decided to organize an educational outing for the children, so she included parents in the decision-making process by filling out a questionnaire stating their opinion about the decision to organize the outing.
Conclusion:
• Involving parents in the decision-making process in the organization.
Exchange of information and skills:
Situation: After working on the professions project, the educator invited some parents to give presentations about their professions. One father brought his tools as a doctor and presented them in front of the children, then another father, who was a carpenter, brought carpenter's tools because he works as a carpenter. ....
Conclusion:
• The educator encourages the exchange of information, specific skills, interests and knowledge of parents that can be used to enhance children's learning in the organization.
• The opportunity for some parents to activate some activities and workshops such as the story workshop, the cooking workshop and the gardening workshop.
Contribute to the enrichment of the studied educational projects:
situation: at the beginning of the transportation project and to sensitize the children to the theme of the project, the educator asked them to do a research on the means of transportation they know, with the help of their parents at home.
Conclusion:
It means that parents help their children in performing educational activities such as research, project work, and experiments, utilizing and developing parental experiences to equip children with the necessary knowledge and skills.
Open-ended activities:
Situation: During the activity of recognizing the number 2, the educator noticed that one of the children was writing the studied number in a different way than the way she taught them, so she told him that the number 2 is not written in this way, and he replied that his father taught him to write the number 2 in this way, so she thought it would be better to sensitize parents to the need to follow the same method in passing on the learning to children through an open activity to make them aware of the methods and stages adopted to write the number to avoid the child falling into the contradiction of information provided by the educator or by the parents.
Conclusion:
• Invite parents to attend some educational activities with their children in order to bring them closer to the atmosphere that their children live in the classroom and get a clear idea of how to deal with children, as this view helps them to follow the same approach at home.
• Encourage parents to talk with their children about and reinforce the learning in the institution and avoid any contradiction between what the school offers and what the child sees at home.
Situation: During a lesson that falls within the field of values and rules of coexistence, the educator was trying to explain the activity of keeping the environment clean. To link the activity to what the children practice in their lives, she asked them a series of questions about their behaviors towards the environment while taking a walk in the park or the beach with their families.
Conclusion:
• The educator seeks to strengthen the link between what children learn in the institution and the activities they practice in their daily lives with their parents.
The benefits of parental involvement in the educational process and school life:
Benefits to the child:
1- Increased opportunities for responsiveness and adaptation to the school environment.
2- Increasing the child's interest in applying the learnings and skills acquired at school.
3- Avoiding the child from falling into the contradiction between family and school.
3- Enhancing children's pride in their parents.
Benefits for parents:
1- Helping parents to improve parenting practices at home.
2- Communicating with the educator as a partner in the educational process directed at the child.
3- Reduce the severity of the child's behavioral problems.
4- Increased parental appreciation of the importance of pre-school education.
Benefits for the educator:
1- Access to important information about the child's family situation and the way the parents deal with the child.
2- Creating positive communication and avoiding misunderstandings between educators and parents.
3- Strengthening the relationship between the family and the school and utilizing parents' ideas to improve the school climate.
Through all of the above:
The partnership between the school and parents emphasizes that the process of educating children, raising them and preparing them for the future is not the sole responsibility of the school institution, but a shared responsibility.