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Teacher Home Visits & Parental Engagement - benefits of parent…
Teacher Home Visits & Parental Engagement -
benefits
of parent involvement in a child’s education at all levels are well-documented
Teacher Home Visits + Student Attitudes & Motivation
positively impact student attitude (Meyer et al., 2011; Simington, 2003; Stetson et al., 2012).
seems to have an influence on students’ attitudes toward school and the classes they are taking (Meyer et al., 2011; Simington, 2003; Stetson et al., 2012)
Teacher Home Visits
Teacher home visits are based on a commonsense idea: Parents are more likely to be engaged in their son’s or daughter’s progress through school if they feel that they have a real partner” (Sawchuk 2011)
Used as a way to build relationships with parents to increase in-school parent involvement and, in turn, increase student achievement
Teacher home visit programs have shown improvement of students’ classroom behaviour - Lin & Bates, 2010; Meyer & Mann, 2006; Meyer, Mann, & Becker, 2011; Simington, 2003; Stetson, Stetson, Sinclair, & Nix, 2012
Much of the current research on teacher home visit programs has been qualitative, utilising small sample sizes or focusing primarily on teachers’ perceptions gathered through interviews and surveys
US home visits also have an effect on student state standardised test scores, with students who received one home visit scoring 5% higher and students who received two home visits scoring 7% higher than students not receiving a home visit (Sheldon & Jung, 2015)
Teachers, students, and parents perceive teacher home visit programs as a key factor for student academic success in the classroom (Meyer & Mann, 2006; Simington, 2003; Stetson et al., 2012)
A unique perspective home visits provide for a classroom teacher - teachers develop a stronger understanding of the factors contributing to a student’s behaviour in the classroom, as well as overall school performance - appreciation of a student’s background and influences on behaviour allows a teacher to modify his or her approach to working with the student, thus allowing for a more meaningful relationship between teacher and student
75% of the teachers studied linked home visits to improved student classroom behaviour - the reported behaviour change also resulted in improved work habits, which then positively impacted the student’s academic achievement (Stetson et al. 2012)
Parental Involvement + Teacher Home Visits
teachers’ perceptions of a strong connection between teacher home visit programs and increased parent involvement (Meyer & Mann, 2006) 42% of the teachers surveyed reported that teacher home visits increased the rate of parent attendance at conferences, while 38.5% of teachers agreed parental communication had increased
teachers reported that the experience had an extremely positive impact on their relationships with the parents of the students in their classroom (Stetson et al., 2012)
Meyer et al. (2011) found that 100% of the teachers they surveyed reported that parents’ attitudes toward school had improved, as well as their attitude toward the teacher, after participation in a teacher home visit.
after teacher home visits, parents were more likely to volunteer to help and be more involved at the school (Faber, 2015; Meyer et al., 2011; Stetson et al., 2012)
improve ties between schools and
culturally diverse families
, give families an opportunity to share their culture and background with teachers, teachers understand the culture and expertise of parents and extend the opportunities for parents to get involved, levels of parent involvement have been shown to increase (Baeder, 2010)
pre-service teachers ...allowing the parents to have a voice in their child’s education, “In order for teachers to develop curriculum that honours and respects knowledge, interests, and experiences that students bring into the classroom, parents, students, and teachers need to be engaged in a dialogue” (Peralta-Nash, 2003, p. 116).
Student views
students thought that parent involvement was important and teacher home visits served as a tool for increasing parental involvement (Simington 2003)