Goal: To find a correlation between
the educational levels of a student body’s caregivers and the student body’s academic
success
and provide a means for improvement.
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Person(s)
Timeline:
Needed
Action Step(s) Responsible
Start/End Resources Evaluation
1. Goals and Objectives- To use data
concerning the educational level of the primary caregiver and the academic
success level of the caregiver’s dependents to form a comparative data set reflecting
academic success’ dependence on parental influence. This comparative data
will then be used to create a program to help the caregiver to be able to
provide needed assistance in the household.
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Bean, John M., voluntary members of the
Campus Improvement Leadership Team, On Site Supervisor.
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November 12, 2012/ July 2013
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Surveys-used to request information
concerning the level of education the primary caregiver has achieved,
spreadsheet for data collection, informational resource packets designed to
assist caregivers in helping their dependents in the household. Campus
location for meeting of caregivers to introduce idea and have them complete
survey or schedule an interview.
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Comparing grade data from the first half of
the 2012-2013 school year to grade data from the second half of the 2012-2013
school year to note whether there has been an improvement in overall averages
after parents have been informed of different study methods and techniques.
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2. Activities to help achieve objectives-
Data will be obtained from caregivers through surveys and interviews,
parental impact meeting to complete surveys as well as schedule interviews
and discuss the importance of home support of dependents. Distribute the resource
“The Teaching Parent” to attending caregivers. Data concerning students will
be collected from school databases. Only students who can be matched with
data from their caregiver to form a complete data set will be utilized.
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Bean, John M., voluntary members of the
Campus Improvement Leadership Team, On Site Supervisor.
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January 2013
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Location to conduct meeting, snacks or
meal, students to help (ask student council for volunteers)
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N/A
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3. Collect data from the end of the second
half of the school year concerning students academic scores. Analyze data collected from caregivers and
students to form a growth chart for the first half of the school year compared
to the second half of the school year
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Bean, John M., voluntary members of the
Campus Improvement Leadership Team, On Site Supervisor.
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May-July 2013
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Time
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Use data to determine usefulness of
educating caregivers on different methods to help their dependents with at
home learning.
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This is very interesting to me. I have gone well past my parents education level and some of my extended families. Out of 4 children I am the only one to attend college in my family. I can't wait to hear more about this. I heard a man speak from AVID recently and he had lots of interesting facts about things like this. Maybe their site can provide you some links to related research for your plan. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHey, I am interested in the second step, I find the parents that are hardest to contact, are also the ones that don't show up to events, and usually have the kids that come to school out of dress code with two referrals. I will be interested to see the correlation of test scores with the kids home life. It is a shame, should be equal for every kid, but they come with so much baggage, it really makes an impact on the child's learning.
ReplyDeleteHey guys, thanks for commenting. I am fortunate in many ways with where I teach. One of them is the fact that I am teaching where I graduated from. (spent most of my life in Votaw, a little town in the district, our house was the one on the left) This gives me an insight on the major attitudes in the area, which mostly do not include college. Also, it is an attitude of survival in a lot of instances as well. I hope that by giving the parents something tangible to actually have in their hands they will use it. Most of them do care, but have commented to me things like "I aint no scientist." I think that they are scared to give their kids the wrong information or have them look down on them for not knowing. I think that if we can just give them some strategies to use with the kids, it will help tremendously. Thanks for reading!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above comments. I'm really interested on how this all turns out. I teach in a very small, very rural school district. A lot of our parents are either migrant field laborers or have kids who have transferred in from neighboring school districts. Their expectations are VERY low and often times view school as just "marking time" until their kids either get in trouble or join them in the fields. everyone once and awhile 1 or 2 break out, but not very many.
ReplyDeleteHave you thought about how you plan to get parents to come to the nights? The parents of the lower performing students dont tend to come to the parent nights.
ReplyDeleteColleen, I think that by doing the coffee and snacks thing, getting student council involved to help and doing a mail out and a couple of call-outs, I think that will bring in a lot of the parents that are sometimes hard to bring in. It seems like food always gets quite a few in. The fact that we have about 150 middle school kids will make mailing out surveys and letters a little easier too.
ReplyDeleteIf you feed them they will come...we've done chili dog or nacho suppers and had great turn outs :). Good luck. I look forward to reading your results.
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