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Education Questions

1. Identify at least two things teachers could do to help parents work with their children more effectively on homework and other academic activities.
§ Teachers often try to help students by parent involvement. Parent involvement is a key part of the education process. A teacher’s work could be in vain if not sustained in the home. One way a teacher could do to help parents work with their children more effectively on homework would be to send home assignments to incorporate the family. For example, if the class is studying history, the teacher can send home a “family scavenger hunt”. The student could then research their family history by questioning parents, grandparents, brother and sisters. Another good way to incorporate parents into the academic process is to send home a logbook. This logbook could have a spot for signatures of the parent to make them accountable for their child’s homework. This process could be a weekly or bi-weekly process. Also, you could send home a letter, send home students work frequently, invite parents to visit to participate in classroom activities.

2. Where do you think most new teaching positions will occur, in schools populated by students from upper, middle, or lower SES backgrounds? Why?
§ SES is an “indicator that combines parents’ incomes occupations, and levels of education” (Kauchak, 111). SES is expressed in three stages: lower, middle, and upper. For any teacher, a lower SES populated school is a challenge: “children come to school without a sense of safety and security, so they are not as well-equipped to tackle school–related tasks” (Kauchak, 116). For this reason (trial for a new teacher), one would believe that more positions would be open within a low-SES populated school.

3. What are some possible ways that poverty can influence learning?
§ Poverty can influence a students learning in many ways. Many poverty stricke...