Importance of Parental Participation in Child’s Early Childhood Education
Involvement of parents in their child’s early childhood education influences their academic motivation as well as learning styles. When the parents get involved in their child’s activities, the child’s ability to listen and comprehend the information being given by adults get high. Kids aren’t afraid to participate in new things and activities and they are more likely to be willing to take risks and have greater self-confidence while participating in an activity when they are with their parents. Parents could monitor their kid’s performance and could also help in boosting the rapport between their kid and the other kids.
Need for Parental-Participation:
Family is one of the most effective systems for sustaining as well as fostering better development of child. The involvement of parents/family in their kid’s programs and classroom activities helps them in succeeding in intervention programs, suggests the teacher at the playgroup in Dahisar. When parents get involved in their kid’s education, they help in reinforcing their kid’s learning.
Participation of parents plays a really vital role in child’s early childhood education. A great example could be an Open House or Student Led Conferences wherein children gets to take their parents through their learning at their school. Such conferences help the parents to gauge the kid’s participation and learning at school. There was a survey held of parents who had participated in the head start programme, which revealed that there’s a positive relationship between an extensive parental participation and kid’s scores on the task orientation, verbal intelligence, self-concept, and academic achievement. It encourages that parents help their children with their homework or weekend tasks so they could know how much progress their kid is making and also work on improvement plans along with their child’s class teacher at the CBSE schools in Kandivali if a need is realized.
Why is parental-participation necessary?
· It helps creates an awareness among kid’s parents in regards to the sheer importance of the early experiences for their kids at such a young age.
· It helps parents realize and understand the need to be providing their young children with stimulating experiences for their overall growth and development.
· To help parents realize their own responsibilities in the overall growth and development of the kids.
· It helps parents better bridge the gaps between school environment and home environment in order to facilitate better learning in children.
· It helps parents in understanding the factors that affect the better growth and development of children at school as well as at home.
· It helps parents in developing positive attitudes toward parenthood and to become good role models for the kids to follow.
· It helps educate and make parents better understand the various aspects related to optimum development in their child, suggests the student’s counsellor at the CBSE schools in Borivali. For example, knowledge about health and hygiene, child nurturing, nutritious foods, common ailments, early detection of disabilities, and the various existing services in our community.
By participating actively in your child’s early childhood education, you are making sure that a strong foundation is being laid for your child’s future academic and career prospects.
