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Hello my name is Tiaa. I am married with three children ages 7 months, 9, and 12. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I like to shop and eat. I am a very shy person. I do not like to talk alot. I do not like cold weather so I am look forward to moving to Texas soon. I currently teach K4 at Parklawn. I have 21 __students__. I really love to see the children learn and grow.
 * 8 issues in __education__**

lack of parent education young parents lack of resources for parents to help their children behavior issues lack of known issues with the children (ie. __ADHD__) big classroom sizes hunger school funding

Hello, I want to do my action research paper on how parental involvement affects the way that children learn. My question is "What affects does a child face when there is no parental involvement?" The reason that I chose this top is because year after year parental involvement gets smaller and smaller. I feel that it is very important for parents to be involved in their child's life.

A fine point of interest, I have taught headstart and one of the requirements was parents participation and many of the parents found they enjoyed their child's formative years by being an active part of their child's education, reinforcing what was taught at the school and building upon it and connecting their social skills. We provided trainings and shared with the parents, techniques for encouraging reading by reading to their child in their lap whre they could feel their body warmth, breathing, voice inflection and excitement. the responcees were great and appreciated. Denise

Hi Tiaa, Tamika here. One question what are you going to do with your kids in the classroom? This sounds like a great topic, I agree that parental involvement is hard to come by. Have you explored some creative strategies to get parents on board with your research? I bet if you held some classroom activities and sent home weekly reminders as well as ignite passion and excitement with the children, the parents would jump on board. Just a suggestion!!!

Tiaa, This is a great question. Are you going to ask certain parents to promise to work with their child each night so that you can compare children who are getting help opposed to those who are not? ~Caryn

Denise- my daughter is in daycare and that is one thing that I do when I pick her up everyday. I sit with her in my lap and read a couple of pages of a book. She tends to enjoy it but she is only one so she will not sit that long for a whole book. I have found this to be helpful because before she goes to bed at night she brings me a book and sits in my lap and i read to her. My only problem with my classroom kids is that these parents do not even have time to spend with their kids. There is always some excuse to why they cant come in to the class and it is not always work.

Tamika- i do lots of projects and send lots of letters home to invite the parents in to the class and help or even to see their child present their project. The parents just dont want to do anything. Reminders at this school mean nothing. We put the reminders in their hands and they still forget.

Caryn-Yes i am especially the ones that are not involved already and see if i can get them involved.

Thanks ladies for your input.-Tiaa

Tiaa’s research outline I. Restatement of research question and why I did my research “What effects does parental involvement in school have on children as a whole?” I choose this question because I feel that parents at our school do not involve themselves in their children’s learning. I feel that it is very important for parents to be involved and know what is going on with their child. I feel that if parents are involved then there will be less classroom distractions and less better academic achievement. II. Roadmap/Outline for where this chapter is going and what the reader can expect

III. Details of what I learned from the data: The data that I have collected is……
 * 1) What is the data I collected and how did I collect it

student that did not have any parental involvement at home.
 * Student demographic information- In the beginning of the year I sent home with every student a form that asked the parents questions about their home life and their child that is in my class. The questions included….how many children are in the home, what your child struggles with, etc.
 * Student work- I looked at work that was done by a student that has parental help at home and a
 * Parent interview-I sat down with one of my parents and we talked about what she thought parental involvement is and what I expected out of parents. We also talked about how I could help her with her child in my class because she did not know how to involve herself in her child’s learning.

B. What did I find out from the data/research (This is the area where you can "tell your story" - like the model we saw in class last week) What I found out from this data is that many parents are not sure of how to involve themselves into their child’s learning. Most of them have a lot of things going on at home such as other children at home that require them to focus on, job schedules and lack of their own personal education. IV. What does all this mean? Conclusion Section: Overall, I have learned that parental involvement has changed greatly over the years. I learned that a lot of parents are single parents who are working to make sure that their kids have a home and food to eat therefore they do not have time to help their children. Since my research started I now have two active parents who come into my class at least once or twice a week to help with their child and learn new ways to help their child when they are struggling. I want to do a mandatory meeting in the beginning of the year to show and help my parents with parental involvement issues. D. Questions am I left with? E. Other research I may engage in in the future How to keep parents involved with their child though their whole schooling career.
 * 1) This is what I have I learned overall
 * 1) How I and my students have changed because of my research
 * 1) Future implications for my teaching?

** TLA Program - Tiaa's Field Experience Documentation ** **(10 hours per course)**

FIRST ADD INFORMATION INTO YOUR WORD DOCUMENT, THEN TRANSFER INFO TO CHART.MAKE SURE TO SAVE FREQUENTLY.

 * Field Experience:** Every student in the TLA program is required to document 10 hours per quarter of field experience or classroom applications. These activities will document your applications of the theories and practices encountered in your coursework, as well as your growth and application of the Nine Outcomes of the TLA program. The purpose of field experience is to help you to make connections to your thinking, deepen your insights into these new connections, and ultimately guide you in discovering how these insights can, have, or will transform your professional practice.

Field Experience Activities include journal entries, activities in your classroom, online interactions with your colleagues.

This document has two purposes. One, it gives each student a place to record their field experiences. Second, perhaps more importantly, it provides an opportunity to reflect on those experiences. THE COMPLETED 10 HOURS MUST BE COMPLETE AT THE END OF THE QUARTER.

For each activity, please complete the chart below. Use the Reflection Questions below as a structure for your reflection on the activity; your reflection should include as many of these questions as possible, but need not be limited to these questions.


 * Reflection Questions**: **//How or why did you choose to document this activity? What was the outcome? What was the result of this activity? What TLA Outcome or Outcomes (if applicable) did this activity provide you more insight into? What did you learn about yourself, your peers, your students, as a result of this activity?//**

quarter || Course || Date of Activity || Duration (give approximate time spent in/doing activity): || Activity (describe briefly, if possible provide an artifact to document) || Reflection (please answer as many of the questions listed above as possible. Take as much time and space as you need to be thorough) || 542 || 10/15/12- 10/16/12 || 2hrs || I gave my students an assessment on number order. || I chose to do this activity because it is apart of my assessment activity. I gave the children the numbers 1-10 in random order and they had to put the numbers in the correct order. I found that this activity was very hard for most of the kids. During these two days I was only able to complete it with 6 of the 12 kids in my class. I showed the children how to do the assignment first then I sat down with them one by one during center time and had them complete the assignment. I learned that the children can tell me the numbers in correct order but they could not put them in the correct order. My students need more practice with number order. || 533 || 1/28/13 || 3 hrs || parent interview || I had the opportunity to sit down one on one with one of the students in my class grandmother and had a interview for my data collection. During this time was able to asked the grandmother some personal questions about her personal background with school and how she feels about parental involvement. The grandmother was able to ask me questions that she had. During this interview the two of us were able to understand either other more clearly. She was able to understand why it is important to be more involved in her grandsons learning and what it is that she can do to help him more. I was able to help her by showing her how to help her grandson and clear up the concerns that she has about her own lack of education. I was able to give her some tips on what she could do and how i could be of any help. After sitting down with her on with the interview I reread all of the information and typed it up in a more understanding way. This interview has connection with my class and my action research paper by giving me a better understanding of a parents point of view on parental involvement. || 533 || 2/12/13 || 2 hrs || grading assignments for data collection || I went through all of the assignments that I have that my children did and graded them. Some of these assigments were used as a part of my data collection for my action research paper. || 533 || 2/15/13 || 3 hrs || collecting data || I went through all of the data that I collected and separated all the info into different groups that they belong with. || 533 || 2/16/13 || 2hrs || analyzing data || I took the data that I separated into diffferent groups and made it into graphs and etc. || 594 || 1/19/13 || 2 hrs || mission of school || I had to come up with a mission statement that i thought would match the needs of my students || Add rows as necessary.
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 * || TLA 542 || 9/17/12-9/19/12 || 3hrs || I gave my students an assessment on how they feel about school. || I chose to do this activity because it was an assignment that we had to complete. While doing this assignment I found it very interesting and wanted to see the responses of my students. The outcome of this activity is to see how the children felt about school. The result of the activity showed that most of the children like to come to school but they did not understand everything about school. I learn that my students are more interested in playing at school and not to ready for learning. As far for myself I learned that I need to help my students better understand what school is for. My students need to know that school is not just for playing but also for learning. ||
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 * || TLA 589 || 10/17/12-10/18/12 || 3hrs || I gave my students who have trouble with learning a test that required me to do it in different ways so that they were able to complete it. || I chose to do this differentiate activity with my lower end students because they were struggling with doing the activity the way that it was first presented. I gave the children the numbers 1-10 in random order and they had to put the numbers in the correct order. However this time with these children I sat with them and they had to count out loud first then they used their fingers to count then they found the number that they would say as they counted out loud again. This was still a hard task for my final 6 kids. The result of this activity is that I need to work harder with this group and give them extra time and practice. ||
 * || TLA 542 || 11/2/12-???? || on going || Journal || I have been doing some journal entries about how my students do on different assignments. While taking notes about what my children are doing I see that some of the children are not getting any help at home because I will sometimes take the same exact question from homework and give it to them in class. The children that do do their homework will say we did this at home and will be able to do that assignment with little to no help. What I learn is not all children get help at home and I need to go over the homework at school so that they will know how to do it at home if they do not get any help at home they will know how to do it on their own. ||
 * || TLA 589 || 11/6/12 || 4hrs || I created small group learning centers for math and phonics || I chose to do this because I saw that the majority of my students were struggling with their math and phonics skills. I sat and tried to think how i can help them with their needs. I came up with small groups that the children can work in after we do the lesson as a whole. For example when I plan a whole group lesson I add 3 activities that coincide with the lesson that I am doing. I will do a phonics lesson that includes letters and letter sounds. I have the children go into small groups of 4 and one group does puzzles that match the upper case letter with the lower case letter, the other group works on the computers with starfall and do letter activities and the last group works with me on a activity worksheet and making the letter. I have only been doing this for a few days but the kids are very excited with they are in their groups and they all work well together. I do the same thing for math but i just use numbers. ||
 * || TLA 589 || 11/10/12 || 3hrs || book on differentiated learning || I read a book on differentiated learning in this book the author talked about how to make small groups with your class. the author suggested that in the small groups make sure the children that are in the group are on the same level of learning. the author suggest that you make out the same lesson for each of your groups but make them easier for each group as they get lower. one suggestion that the author gave was to give less and less problems for math for the lowest group. the author stated that if you give the low end students the same amount of work as the high group then the low group will shut down. for example if you give the high group 12 problems then you would give the low group 4-6 problems, after reading this book i sat down and went through a week of my students upcoming work and revised all of their work so that they would be getting less work then the high students. i also took the time to go though the low students station work so that they are not given the same amount of work at individual time. ||
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 * ||  ||   || 3hrs || effective changes || I looked at my current school and how things are run and how i would want my school to be ran. One of the major changes that i would want is more parental involvement. ||
 * ||  ||   || 5hrs || readings on how to open a school || I did a lot of research on the computer finding out lots of information on how to open and opporate a school. I also did some talking with other people who i know tht have already opened a school ||