Improving student achievement and parental involvement can be achieved by creating an action plan that incentivizes both groups, provides support for each, and promotes positive interactions. This action plan will describe how student achievement and parental involvement can be boosted in the school.
To improve student achievement, the first step is to offer them incentives to want to be successful. Incentives could be as simple as this: Perfect attendance for the quarter earns a student a ticket to a community event or a free pizza or a gift card to a… Continue Reading...
engaged. If there are concerns about student achievement, parents should be solicited to determine the possible cause of such issues, beyond purely looking at assessment results. Assessments, both standardized and teacher-generated, only paint a picture of student achievement during a narrow point in time. This should limit their use for determining a students’ long-term future. They should be used for informative results, not pass judgement on students, particularly given the absence of any perfect test to fully render an objective judgement about a student. Qualitative as well as quantitative assessments should be used.
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Parental Involvement and Student Success: Article Review
Although parental involvement is usually encouraged by schools, its precise effects upon student achievement remains controversial. In the article, “A New Framework for Understanding Parental Involvement: Setting the Stage for Academic Success,” published in the RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Harris and Robinson (2016) offer a new framework for understanding parental involvement to permit greater systematization in comparisons of studies; their framework is called stage setting, based upon the premise that, “Stage-setters create a life space—the parameters within which the actor’s performance occurs—that corresponds with the intended action” (Harris and Robinson, 2016, p.189). This article reflects the… Continue Reading...
measures in 5 areas, or specifications:
1. Teaching and Learning: The measures a principal uses to generate significant student achievement gains via the improvement and assistance of efficient teaching.
2. Mutual Vision, School Tradition and Family Involvement: The measures a principal normally takes to form an idea of significant achievement based on a culture of higher expectations and family involvement.
3. Strategic Planning and Solutions: The measures a principal uses to handle and observe school systems and processes.
4. Talent Handling: The measures a principal uses to create and preserve a high-quality, efficient teaching personnel.
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What Fransen (2013) found was that when teachers give fewer deferrals for discipline, student achievement actually increases because students are more willing to engage with the material. Instead of simply sitting silently and waiting out the clock in order to get through the class without at least being punished for becoming animated or lively in response to taking a heightened interest in the subject, students whose teachers are more phlegmatic in their approach to discipline—i.e., who allow students to express themselves so long as student engagement is occurring—are more successful at meeting academic goals overall.
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ensuring effective and responsive operations. Some of the expected outcomes in this school district include enhancing student achievement, aligning instructional system, enhancing accountability for academic performance, and professional development of staff.
This curriculum plan for elementary ESL students in Paterson Public School is in line with the school district’s mission of preparing students for success in higher learning institutions or respective career. The plan seeks to achieve this by enhancing the students’ mastery of the English language, which they will later utilize in college/university or their careers. Additionally, this curriculum plan is developed as part of establishing effective academic programs for teaching English language in the… Continue Reading...
many teachers feel powerless in the face of the bureaucracy and an insensitive and unresponsive political administration. Declining student achievement needs to be taken into perspective, relevant to the overall culture. School shootings and other violent outbursts are only symptomatic of the underlying problems in the disconnected and dysfunctional society. This proposed plan of action takes into account not just the grades and other tangible elements of student achievement but to the ultimate goals of education itself. Student achievement is not just measured in terms of specific tests and assessment measures but also in other ways.
Therefore, models for improvement do include changing the evaluation processes. Evaluation procedures… Continue Reading...
generating the desired change in teaching practice, which in turn helps in enhancing learning outcomes and student achievement. As a result, the school utilizes several measures for conducting needs assessment in relation to instructional leadership and professional development. This paper examines the evaluation instruments utilized by Paterson Public School for needs assessment on instructional leadership and professional development.
Evaluation Instruments at Paterson Public School
Paterson Public School is one of New Jersey’s most diverse school districts whose main aim is to educate youth in the region. This school district is managed by the New Jersey Department of Education, which helps in ensuring that teaching practice is… Continue Reading...
affect. This research seeks to find out the kind of parental support and involvement that is efficacious for good student achievement for children who are in grades 3 and 7.
Background and Significance
Studies have persistently revealed that there’s an almost incontestable link between the involvement and support of parents and student achievement. In fact, meta-analyses suggest that parental participation and help affect children’s academic performance across different ages and ethnic groups (Jeynes, 2015; Wilder, 2014). The general idea is that the involvement and support of parents in their student’s education results in positive outcomes. Research has focused on an extensive range of issues pertaining to parental participation such… Continue Reading...
study takes the relational design (one of the two forms of correlational design) as it seeks to explore how student achievement is impacted upon by class/socioeconomic status, the attention of a parent, the working patterns of the mother, and familial structure. When it comes to data collection and statistical analysis, the study made use of survey and ANOVA respectively. This study found family affluence and parental education to be of significance when it came to the academic achievement of students. These factors, in the words of the author, "were key to students' postsecondary attainment, even when aspects of the home environment were taken into account."
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very little evidence that the program has any impact on student achievement, as measured by test scores in a variety of subjects" (Golsbee and Gurayan 2005).
Variable A: teachers' comfort level with the internet
Variable B: ability of teachers to use internet effectively with their students
Correlation: Positive correlation
Reason: the study found that the teachers' inability to work with computers explained the reason as to why "greater internet access may not directly result in better prepared students" (Golsbee and Gurayan 2005).
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max in terms of time and ability: their primary focus is on teaching and assessing student achievement. Other stakeholders—i.e., parents—will nonetheless be concerned about safety, as Stowell points out.[footnoteRef:3] To keep stakeholders happy, managers and employees have to find ways to satisfy concerns about security—on top of doing their full-time jobs of administering and educating. That can be daunting, but to help there are security solutions that the Digital Age has helped bring into existence—tools like SIELOX CLASS, which allow teachers to communicate with administrators, access campus cameras, alert authorities, trigger a lockdown, and keep students safe by responding quickly to a potentially dangerous situation… Continue Reading...
to help them as they work towards increasing student achievement. I find all of these tools to be useful: they have the potential to really support the educational leadership process and that is what’s most important when you’re looking for resources to help you manage the leadership position that you are in.
The Principal Supervisor Institute is another one that is helpful, as its goal is to increase the accountability of administrators in the education arena. Administrators must be held accountable, since schools and students rise and fall under their watch. By maximizing the potential of administrators and… Continue Reading...
