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Write on Relationship Building, Parent Involvement in a Campus Bilingual Program.
The campus bilingual program includes the teaching of the content of academics in two languages i.e. the native language and the secondary language. The languages are used with the erratic amount of language according to the model of the program.
The involvement of parents in a campus bilingual program helps them in getting an opportunity in order to grow in various roles like the decision maker and a teacher. The children will be able to grow and learn with the guidance of the teachers and the parents. The parents can give their suggestions and take part in the decision making for designing the bilingual programs at the campus. It is very important for the parents to understand that how the programs are made and operated by the campus in order to give the right direction to their children. The researches have shown that the parents are not reasoned about the ways the campus helps the children in order to make them learn and grow. Sometimes, the parents are not willing to take part in the campus activities of their children, and they are least interested to know what their children are learning in the bilingual and other programs of the campus (Estell et al; 2013).
This creates a problem for the language minority children who are not expert in the English language, and they feel estranged from the system of the campus. The parents should be clear about their responsibility towards the bilingual program of the campus in order to help their children.
The campus can build a relationship with parents by involving them in the bilingual programs for the bright future of the children. The parents can be invited to the meetings, and the information can be given about the curriculum, tutorials, services of bilingual, increase in the initiative of reading, etc. The information will help in building a positive relationship between the campus and the parents. This will also help in measuring the performance of the students effectively. Abetment is given to the parents in order to improve the performance of their children. The meetings of parent advisory can be held every month on the campus to take the suggestions from the parents for the benefit of their children (Gordon et al; 2012). The meetings will also help parents to interact with the other parents. The campus can help the parents to learn the techniques of teaching that will help the children to learn easily. Presentations can be given to the parents by the campus so that they can know the performance of their children, and how the parents can help the teachers to improve the performance of their children. This will help in building a teacher-parent relationship in the bilingual education.
The campus can endeavor to counterpart the activities for the involvement of the parents through the various programs of bilingual. The outreach programs can be organized for providing guidance to the children. The recreational reading programs can be implemented for the parents so that they can develop the habit of listening to the children’s opinion as well. The campus can send the complete report of the programs and the student’s progress to the parents in the both native and secondary language so that the parents can understand it and help their children to improve. The disabled parents can also get access to see the information and participate in the various programs. The campus can help the families of the immigrant in understanding the various programs and methods of the school which will benefit the children to learn easily. The campus programs can help the families to use the various strategies to reinforce the learning of their children (Poza et al; 2014). The campus can take the help of multilingual parents for providing sessions about the basic instructions for learning the language to the children after school. The bilingual programs will help the multicultural parents and children to learn and understand the behavior of America. For example, it is necessary for students to make an eye contact while talking with the teachers and they should participate in the discussions more frequently.
It is very important to have a positive relation between the teacher and the parents as this will help the children to adjust during the early school days. The involvement of parents will help the children to achieve more positive results, and they will remain motivated in order to achieve the future desired goals. And this will help the children to adjust emotionally, socially, etc. The relationship of the parent and teacher will help in building trust, support, beliefs, etc. among themselves and towards children as well. This will help the children to achieve high results in academics.
There are some challenges that are faced by the parents and restricts them to build a positive relationship with the teachers. Sometimes, parents are not able to attend the bilingual programs because of their busy schedules. In order to solve this problem, the campus can provide the access to parents so that they can interact through e-mails, messages, etc. (Karila, K., & Alasuutari, M. 2012). Sometimes, parents are not able to attend the programs because they don’t have transport facility. In order to solve this problem, the campus can provide the service of shuttle buses to the parents or the programs can also be attended through webinars. The campus can provide the service of language translation to the parents so that they can get the clear understanding of the message. The campus can develop various strategies to maintain the relationship of parent-teacher for a longer period of time for the better future of the children.
The researches have shown that the involvement of parents in the bilingual programs helped the children to give better academic results than those whose parents are not involved in the programs of the campus. It is very important for building the relationship between the parents and teachers as this will help the children to overcome their problems and achieve the better academic goals and objectives (Hughes et al; 2012).
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Gordon, M. S., & Cui, M. (2012). The effect of school?specific parenting processes on academic achievement in adolescence and young adulthood. Family Relations, 61(5), 728-741.
Hughes, J. N., Wu, J. Y., Kwok, O. M., Villarreal, V., & Johnson, A. Y. (2012). Indirect effects of child reports of teacher–student relationship on achievement. Journal of educational psychology, 104(2), 350.
Karila, K., & Alasuutari, M. (2012). Drawing partnership on paper: How do the forms for individual educational plans frame parent-teacher relationship. International Journal about Parents in Education, 6(1), 15-27.
Poza, L., Brooks, M. D., & Valdés, G. (2014). Entre Familia: Immigrant parents' strategies for involvement in children's schooling. School Community Journal, 24(1), 119.