Parental Involvement -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Parental Involvement

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Christina V. Watkins

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Date Posted: 11:13:07 03/30/08 Sun

I found the information on parental involvement in chapter 10 interesting. Particularly the information outlined by Joyce Epstein on how to increase parental involvement in adolescents' schooling. While the book only outlines four strategies, Epstein actually developed six. The two that stood out to me the most were parenting and communication. Parenting refers to providing a home environment where children can effectively be students. This means providing health and nutrition, and having an appropriate learning environment. Communication refers to having successful means of transmitting messages to and from school and vice versa. This supports teacher-parent interaction.

This information was especially important to me because it seems that parental involvement becomes less and less as a student progresses through school. Teachers know that it is difficult to reach a child if there is little to no support from home. The tactics that Epstein outlined are easy to follow and have that "duh" factor. The next step is implementing them.

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Re: Parental Involvement	Patrick Frett	16:52:11 03/30/08 Sun