1. PARENT TRAINING

2. What is Parent Training? Parent training is an effort made on the part of the school campus to help parents in gaining knowledge and skills which will result in the improvement of the child’s learning conditions, and result in effective learning.

3. Who delivers parent training? Administrators Teachers Community members

4. Example of a Super Parent Website: http://www.beaumont.k12.tx.us/title1/page7.html

5. School / Home/ Student Relationship

6. Model: Teachers / Parents/ Student

7. Conclusion Evidence supports that parents play an important role in the educational process of a child. Therefore it is to our advantage to train parents so that the influence that they have on children, is a positive influence, and not a negative one.

8. SCHOLARY EVIDENCE Taken from several Journals: 1. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION TITLE: What Do School Principals Think About Current School-Family Relationships? SOURCE: NASSP Bull 92 no3 S 2008 Copyright NASSP. For information on NASSP services and/or programs, please call (800) 253-7746. To contact the publisher: http://www.principals.org/ 2. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION TITLE: Fostering Parent-Teacher Collaboration in the Classroom SOURCE: Techniques (ACTE) 84 no5 My 2009 The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited.

9. Susan Emeagwall in Techniques Magazine states, “A Successful partnership between teachers and parents is integral to student achievement.”

10. Susan Emeagwall in Techniques Magazine states, “A study last year in the Journal of Human Resources found out just how much parental involvement correlates to student success. The authors of “Parental Effort, School Resources, and Student Achievement” were able to answer resoundingly….

11. Susan Emeagwall in Techniques Magazine states, …that parent involvement does positively impact student performance, adding that schools would have to increase per pupil spending in order to make up for lack of parental effort.”

12. Susan Emeagwall in Techniques Magazine states, In fact, a 2005 Harvard Graduate School of Education report found that the stress of dealing with difficult parents is one of the top reasons that teachers leave the profession. In addition, 2005