Home Visits
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Why teacher’s should do home visit? The overall goal of home visiting is to help strengthen relationships between parents and teachers. Home visiting programs are an effective way for teachers to get parents involved in their child’s education and to let parents and children know how much they care. However, home visits are only the beginning. Here are more benefits: · Strengthened parent/teacher relationships, · Increase in overall student achievement scores, · Decrease in student suspensions · Increase in student attendance · Feeling of trust, mutual respect, empowerment, and accountability by parents, students and staff. |
Even though teachers typically cite home visits as an effective tool in bridging the home-school gap, most don’t actually do any visits. Cited reasons:
- Concerns over safety;
- Visits aren’t a required part of the job;
- Concerns about parental reaction to having a teacher visit the home;
- Lack of training on how to conduct a visit;
- Hard to fit into an already busy schedule (Taveras, 1998).
Would you be respective to Mrs. Medina doing home visits before school starts and throughout the school year?
References:
http://www.hsalubbock.org/Activities/Home%20Visits.htm
Filed under: Homework, Interest | Tagged: home visit, school connection, teacher influence
