Parents’ involvement is most important in the quality of education, because children in the growing age of 4 to 9 years are much more adoptable and ready to be productive than in later years
By Savera Sultan Abbasi
As the education is a basic right to every child, its quality also matters. When it comes to quality education, it’s not a one person game. It should be taken as a collaboration of parents with their children. Parents’ involvement is most important in the quality of education, because children in the growing age of 4 to 9 years are much more adoptable and ready to be productive than in later years. Parents must be involved in their children’s activities and learning education. Parents can make and improve the learning environment in their homes. When parents and teachers work together on the quality of education, we will find the children more confident, critical and it will design the home environment in a more sophisticated way.
There are some areas of improvement steps below:
1) Improve the learning skills through hands-on experience
Parents must have to do extracurricular activities with their children in real-life experiences. This relates to their study projects such as painting, tree plantation, waste management, music, and visiting museums for learning; throughout these activities and awareness, students think improves, and their parents also support and help them in school-based work. Through these actions, the self-confidence of their children increased.
2) Emotional support and communication building
Education is not only reading and learning textbooks; education is also the emotional support of their children. Make a friendly environment with their children because they can communicate with you and share their problems and trust in you. Even if they are wrong and make mistakes, you have to listen to their issues and problems very calmly, build trust in them, and tell them we are with you and give them ideas and tell them which is right and which is wrong
3) Make a peaceful environment the homes
A peaceful environment is most important for the quality of education. Parents have to make a supportive and stress-free environment where children focus on their education. When a child lives in a peaceful environment where they can work very sincerely and focus their study in a better way.
4) Parents as a role model
Parents are the first role models in their children’s lives. Parents’ habit of reading books, learning new things, time management, self-discipline, and taking a keen interest in education. If parents give priority to education, their children also give priority to Education.
5) Positive use of technology
Nowadays, technology plays a vital role in our lives. Parents must have to use educational apps and online learning tools and use them positively. Such as the Duolingo app, which is an English learning app where we can speak and write English words and sentences and also list English stories. Article “Nine strategies to improve parent involvement in education.” According to this Article, the use of technology makes a positive change in the quality of education. Like organizing the communication app and volunteer programs. The aim. of this article is to inspire parents and improve the system of education.
Conclusion: Finally, the result of the discussion about parent`s involvement is the most powerful method to improve the quality of education. Nowadays, it is most important for parents to take responsibility, actively participate, and take a keen interest in their children’s education. Work together with teachers and make a bright future for their children.
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Savera Sultan Abbasi is the student at Department of Anthropology and Archaeology University of Sindh Jamshoro
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