Download or read book The Effects of Parent Involvement Specifically on Head Start Parents and what Can be Done to Continue to Promote Parent Involvement at the Head Start Level written by Danique J. Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project explores the effects of parent involvement and if parents aren't as involved at the Head Start level, what can be done to help parents become more active. The success of the child includes having a solid foundation, which starts within the home and with the parents. Understanding the benefits of parent involvement and how to continue that participation, will potentially help increase overall parent engagement with their children at the Head Start level. The end result being the continuing success for the children and their families as they continue their education for years to come.
Download or read book Parent Involvement written by Project Head Start and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Head Start on Mother and Father Involvement written by Bethany J. Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past research on Head Start has focused on child outcomes, yet Head Start services also target the behaviors of parents. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCW), the current study examined the effect of Head Start on mother (n = 3,575) and father (n = 1,812) involvement in activities at home with children. The first four waves of FFCW data followed children and their parents from birth to age five. FFCW data included families from low- to middle-income backgrounds allowing direct comparisons in this study between very low-income families whose children were eligible for Head Start to more advantaged families whose children were not. Using scales of parental involvement in at-home activities with children, mothers and fathers of Head Start students were compared to mothers and fathers of children in parent care, daycare, pre-kindergarten and preschool. A two-step analytic process was used (a) to establish that average levels of parent involvement varied significantly across childcare setting groups at each of the three waves, and (b) to control for known background characteristics and previous parent involvement while predicting post-intervention parent involvement. In the first step, analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed significant differences between mothers of Head Start children and mothers of children in other childcare categories before Head Start entry, and revealed positive effects of Head Start on mother involvement after program exit. In the second step, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression further controlled background characteristics that have predicted mother involvement in previous literature. The OLS results supported the ANOVA finding that Head Start positively influenced mother involvement. Although ANOVA and OLS regression results suggested that Head Start did not affect the involvement of fathers, results indicated that the level of father involvement when the child was one year old predicted involvement when the child was five years old, even after controlling for whether fathers lived with the child. A post-hoc Structural Equation Model (SEM) further examined the effect of fathers' involvement and co-residence in years one and three on involvement at year five. Fathers who reported high levels of involvement in daily activities when children were very young maintained high levels as children moved through preschool and into kindergarten. Efforts to engage fathers early on in the daily lives of their children may bring cumulative dividends for both father and child through his continued involvement as the child grows older, even - and perhaps especially - when the father no longer lives with the child.
Download or read book A Handbook for Involving Parents in Head Start written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Head Start on Children Families and Communities written by Ruth Hubbell McKey and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Head Start on Children Families and Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Head Start on Children Families and Communities written by Ruth Hubbell McKey and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Head Start Impact written by Michael J. Puma and published by Nova Novinka. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start's goal has been to boost the school readiness of low-income children. Based on a 'whole child' model, the program provides comprehensive services that include pre-school education; medical, dental, and mental health care; nutrition services; and efforts to help parents foster their child's development. Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child's and family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. The Congressionally-mandated Head Start Impact Study was conducted across 84 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies. Approximately 5,000 newly entering 3- and 4-year-old children applying for Head Start were randomly assigned to either a Head Start group that had access to Head Start program services or to a non- Head Start group that could enrol in available community non-Head Start services, selected by their parents. Data collection began in fall 2002 and is scheduled to continue through 2006, following children through the spring of their 1st-grade year. The study quantifies the impact of Head Start separately for 3- and 4-year-old children across child cognitive, social-emotional, and health domains as well as ii on parenting practices. This book is essential reading for those in the education field.
Download or read book Beyond the Blueprint written by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-05-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its 30th anniversary, public acceptance of Head Start is high, yet understanding of its goals is low, and evaluation research is limited in quality and scope. In this book, a roundtable of representatives from government, universities, medicine, and family support agencies identifies a set of research possibilities to generate a broader understanding of the effects of Head Start on families and children. Among the important issues discussed are the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Head Start families, the social conditions of the community context, and the implications of the changing economic landscape for both families and Head Start itself.
Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Download or read book Parent Involvement in Head Start written by Amy Beth Taub and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head Start is the nation's largest two-generation program, providing center-based childcare with a family engagement focus. Head Start engages parents by inviting them to observe and volunteer in the classroom, engaging them as decision-makers through service on the policy council, holding parent-teacher conferences, and conducting home visits, among other activities. This dissertation examined the contribution of parent involvement to Head Start's impacts on parenting outcomes, and the contextual factors that affect the impact of parent involvement on parents and children in two papers. In the first paper, I analyzed parent involvement as a mediator of the impacts that the Head Start Impact Study found on parent-child reading, family cultural enrichment activities, and authoritarianism. I find that parent involvement partially explains the effects on cultural enrichment, but not the other two outcomes. In the second paper, I examine center, family, and child moderators of the association between parent involvement and parent and child outcomes. I find that parent involvement is more impactful when parents have lower parenting skills and when teachers have high emotional support. Taken together, these papers demonstrate that Head Start is succeeding in involving parents, and that this involvement does contribute to improvements in parenting outcomes. However, because the effect sizes are small, there is room to improve the parent involvement experience through more targeted intervention programs.
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start written by Jeanne Ellsworth and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers critical perspectives on the complex dynamics of politics, class, gender, power, race, and ethnicity in Project Head Start, past and present. Moving beyond the literature on Head Start's effects on children's achievement, this volume considers how the program has operated—sometimes effectively and comfortably, sometimes not—with families, in communities, and with other institutions. Contributors address historical background, parent involvement and governance, cultural diversity, and relationships with other institutions. The research reported is rich with the voices of parents, community members, and staff, and is complemented by first-person chapters written by participants themselves. Head Start's appeal and its reputation for success are both championed and critically questioned in this book, with an eye toward where Head Start might be going, where it should be going, and how we can better understand poverty, social programs, and education.
Download or read book The Evidence Continues to Grow written by Anne T. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transitions Parents Are Key Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide will enable parents to support and advocate for their children during transitions. Contains training activities and hands-on action tools to help parents and staff work in partnership as children transition into and out of Early Head Start, Head Start, child care settings, and elementary schools. Transition addresses all the changes that occur as a child moves from one setting to another -- from home to a program, within a program, or between programs. This technical guide is designed to assist both parents and staff in developing skills that support the Head Start Program Performance Standards related to transitions. It encourages active learning interaction and partnering through guided hands-on activities and tools based upon real life transition situations. Ill.
Download or read book Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education written by Alice S. Honig and published by Washington : National Association for the Education of Young Children. This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Bake Sale written by Anne T. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criteria for Evaluating a Head Start Parent Participation Program written by Project Head Start (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
