Involving Parents in the Classroom

This entire section brought back great memories for me from when I was an Orientation Leader here at FSU in 2008. I know what parents of incoming freshman students are like, I remember helicopter parents, literally hovering over their students, not allowing them to breath. Not allowing them to get literally get outside of arms reach without bringing them back in. I know that despite the common idea that parents generally don't care about their child's education, but I feel like they just aren't given the opportunity to either get involved feel like public schools don't give them an opportunity.

I know that as a teacher I need to do my best to encourage parents to be involved in their students education, to ask how classes are going at the dinner table, giving them assistance with projects, making sure that they get up for classes in the morning, making sure that they are getting to bed, having a good meal every morning and every night.

I know that most families are either single parents or two-income, both parents working full time. The time of stay at home parents are over and it would be both ineffective and inappropriate for me to expect parents to have free time and availibility during the school year. Working would mean that I need to find ways to get parents involved in times and availibilty and working to get parents to know me as a teacher, and for them to know what their student is doing.