Introduction to Family Engagement in Education

One of the factor that determine best performance of the child is parental engagement in school.The learner is highly motivated when he she see that their parents are actively involved in their school work activities.Am glad to be proven wrong because I once thought that learners performance can be affected by the family background....but this isn't true.... according to the research done on both social classes has clearly indicated that involvement of family is vital to all learners plus the various types of parental involvement though it seems simple things that we usually ignore but they mean so much to the learners in our classroom situations. Am now able to convince my pupils parents on how and when their involvement in school really matters to their children

“Educational
reforms . . . that
aim to address the
deepening problems faced by chil￾dren and families
in a variety of at risk circumstances
in our nation (Nigeria)
inner cities must
provide a broad-based coherent
approach including family, school, and other community resources.”
Parents can be agents for
change, not just in the education of their own children but of all children.
Knowledge, confidence, and willingness were the primary indicators of the program’s success. In practice, it became apparent that it was most reasonable to expect parents to take actions that had a logical, rather than a causal connection to student achievement, mostly because it is statistically impossible to tease out the relative effects of a
single initiative on student learning.
Parent involvement programs should be designed to increase
the ways that fathers and mothers interact with their sons and daughters about academ￾ic achievement. “Parents are an untapped resource and their parent-child interactions
can be altered to enhance in-school performance”
As participants we are expected to become both sophisticated learners about school reform and resourceful leaders in making sure that positive changes for students occurred.