POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSFUL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILD
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Jul 1, 2014
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parent involvement teacher education
Abstract
Parental involvement in the educational process is considered as a powerful variable, for the promotion of socio-emotional and academic children’s development. Teacher’s attitudes and abilities, on this issue, are key factors in promoting parental involvement in education. Some basics that teachers need to know, in order to enhance the participation of parents are, the
necessity for finding information, regarding families’ talents and potential, understanding the specific situations of the families, knowledge on the variety of avenues that can be used, the need of building confidence, linguistic and cultural appreciation, recognition and response, the introduction of parents in program planning and constant assessment of these programs, in order to maintain and improve them.
necessity for finding information, regarding families’ talents and potential, understanding the specific situations of the families, knowledge on the variety of avenues that can be used, the need of building confidence, linguistic and cultural appreciation, recognition and response, the introduction of parents in program planning and constant assessment of these programs, in order to maintain and improve them.
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Κούτρας (Vasilios Koutras) Β., & Νάστου (Lamprini Nastou) Λ. (2014). POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSFUL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILD. Investigating the child’s World, 13, 247–254. https://doi.org/10.12681/icw.17953
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