Sharing Your Tracking Tool

    For tracking my goals, I have a traditional way of keeping up with what I'm accomplishing. I have a folder that has a list of goals that I want to complete by certain times. I like to look at my goals and see where I'm at with them. Some may like to have theirs on a electronic device but for me looking at a handwritten diagram of what I want to accomplish makes it more personal for me. I make sure to track my progress to my goal and able to add new things to the list. This keeps me accountable of the things I want to achieve and how close I am to them.

Sharing Your Annotated Bibliography Topic

For my annotated bibliography topic, I choose Effective Communication with parents. This is something that is extremely important in the work place no matter what profession you are. Some people think communicating shouldn't be an issue, but it can be for a lot of people who aren't use to be social. When working with children we use communication throughout the day, we also encounter their family, staff, and management. Having these effective communication skills in place will help build a solid foundation between you and everyone you encounter. I have found several articles that research why it is important to have open communication with parents.

I also will be researching what happens when there is no communication between both parties. This could result in a lot of missed information getting told, children's development not being properly reported, etc.


I will also be very happy to see your insight, and suggestions on what I'm doing my paper on. Being able to share some pages, or research I should consider in order to write a great paper on my topic.

Fostering Classroom Communities

Title of Dissertation: Analyzing parental involvement dimensions in early childhood education

Author: Zeynep Kurtulmus


Kurtulums(2016) Believed that parent involvement with their children’s education also helped with their social skills. There has been a wide spread of research that supports his beliefs. Studies have shown positive effects on a child’s development as well as their academic achievement. Research was done to show the positive side of parent involvement versus no parent involvement. With the research it is able to show why it is important for parents to be involved with their children’s education. Kurtumuls study focused on two parts parents involvement  and parents education. It also involves home visits and school based activities.  The focus of the study was how to increase parent involvement and its quality, For this, dimensions of involvement needs to be known, and parents’ behavior in these dimensions needs to be analyzed ( Kurtulums, 2016).  The dimensions are development based dimension, activity based dimension and involvement based dimension.





The study was conducted in a Turkish early childhood program, about 300 parents with 5 year old’s. Fathers were excluded due to not contributing. The children picked for the study were from independent preschools and public kindergarten. Each parent was given a letter explaining the study One part of the study parents were given a study to obtain their parental involvement. Other parents were interviewed with questions pertaining to activities they do at home and school with their child. After compiling the data it was sent off to be reviewed and the results were given back to the researchers. The data revealed parents scored high when they closely follow what their children learn in school. Praising children when they accomplish a good job was second, followed by talking to their children about their interests. The lowest involvement involved redirecting school based activities to do at home. Parents also scored highest when encouraging children to change an activity when they lost interest. Study showed that while parental involvement was moderate for all three dimensions, the highest involvement was observed for the involvement based dimension ( Kurtulums, 2016). When it involves activity based behaviors parents involvement declines, this is where parents may need assistance on how to remain involved with their children’s activities.



After the readings of this week lesson, it is important that parents are involved with their children’s development and education. During this study it showed that in some areas parents aren’t that involved and suggests developing more research to help parents remain involved in all aspects of their child’s learning process. In my classroom now I make sure to have open communication about what their child is learning in my class. Monthly I do newsletters for the families so they can see what were doing in class and encourage them to do the same at home with their child. By doing this the parents have a blueprint on what their child is learning and encouraging them to continue with the learning and development process.



Reference

Kurtulmus, Z. (2016). Analyzing Parental Involvement Dimensions in Early Childhood Education. Educational Research and Reviews, 11(12), 1149–1153. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1104563&site=eds-live&scope=site

Introduction

Hello everyone, I'm Shakira I live currently in El Paso TX. We are a military family and have been here for 2 years now. We have 6 children and one grandson, we are a blended family. I'm currently completeing the post Masters certificate deciding if I want to continue after it is finished. I currently work at the CDC on post with toddlers, and I was recently promoted to lead teacher of another toddler room. I've worked with children for over 14 years. My main goal is to have my own childcare center when my husband retires in 10 years.