Social discussion of CS in K-12

[Kristine Chalifoux <kmchalifoux AT aol.com>]

I am not sure that their conclusions are much different from what I expect.  Basically, being engaged in what kids are doing (asking questions), setting expectations, and caring enough to know if they have the best or worst resources.  To me, this is parent involvement.  

Certainly, being involved in the school allows a parent to know how teachers are doing.  It also allows teachers additional time to work with the kids.  Case in point.  I went in once a week to work on reading and math in my kids' classes during elementary school.  The rule was, I don't work with my own kid.  I could be effective with other kids, but embarassing to mine.  By doing this; I knew what was going on, I freed up time for the teacher to maybe work with my kid, and I helped keep groups of kids smaller and more manageable for the teacher(s).  

I could have saved the writer money by telling them that my sitting and "helping" my child with their math will get nowhere.   It isn't done the same now and children are inclined to think their parents don't know (I hear that changes when they get older?).  Basically, OVER-involvement doesn't work.

Anyway, I think it is more of a matter of labels that this writer uses, rather than involvement of the parent.  Some forms of "involvement" work, some don't.

Well, thanks for sharing!

Kristine Chalifoux

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From: Mike Royse <royse.innovations AT gmail.com>
To: George Reese <reese AT illinois.edu>
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Sent: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 1:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Ctrl-Shift] Interesting op ed piece on parents in education

Do you all believe this is credible information? If so, what does it imply to programming goals for parental involvement?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:21 AM, George Reese <reese AT illinois.edu> wrote:

I was thinking it would just be an opinion piece, but the research sounds interesting. I’m going to check out their book.

Thanks Martin,

George

 

From: ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu [mailto:ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu] On Behalf Of Wolske, Martin B
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Subject: [Ctrl-Shift] Interesting op ed piece on parents in education

 

I'd be very interested to hear what others think of this op ed piece regarding parental involvement in education:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/parental-involvement-is-overrated/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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