Parent and Community Involvement in Schools or Child Care Centers
Working with Families
Review the Six Types of Involvement: Keys to Successful Partnerships (Links to an external site.) from the National Network of Partnership Schools. Using the terminology from this model, describe the kinds of parent and community involvement you have observed in schools or child care centers where you have worked, volunteered, or attended. If you do not have this kind of experience, visit the websites of several local child care centers and summarize the information about parent involvement that the centers have included. Also describe how these schools or centers could improve their level and type of parent and community involvement based on the NNPS model. Your initial discussion p
Answer previewParental and community involvement in a child’s education is a crucial part of the child’s educational achievement. There are six types of involvement based on the Epstein’s framework that schools can use to encourage parents and the community to take part in the child’s educational journey (Epstein, 2005). The kinds of involvement are parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision-making and collaborating with the community.
One of the institutions that I have come across that encourages parental involvement is the Rainbow Child Care Center. The center has a parental involvement committee that…
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