GOAL:
Increase Parental Involvement at the 1st Grade Elementary Level of Migrant Students
OUTCOMES
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ACTIVITIES
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RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED
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RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES
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TIME LINE
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Benchmarks/
ASSESSMENT
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Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments
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Identify possible causes for minimal migrant parental involvement for 1st grade migrant students
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Interview Mrs. Oralia Romero, PIP Clerk, Interview Mr. Umberto Flores Principal, Interview Dr. Maria Vidaurri, Asst. Superintendent of C&I. Interview various Migrant parents. Conduct a survey via surveymonkey.com for parents, Interview teachers with migrant students in the classroom.
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Tape recorder,
Prepared interview questions,
List of migrant students and parent information to make contacts.
Parental Involvement focus group,
Time
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Pamela J. Garrett
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October- November 2012
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Review data collected through online survey/ paper copies of survey, review interviews,
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Identification of possible activities or accommodations to be implemented.
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Follow up interviews with Mrs. Oralia Romero, PIP Clerk, Mr. Umberto Flores Principal, Dr. Maria Vidaurri, Asst. Superintendent of C&I, various Migrant parents, and teachers with migrant students in the classroom.
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Tape recorder,
Prepared updated and more concise interview questions,
List of migrant parent’s that are currently not participating as parental volunteers
Time
List of proposed ideas/ strategies
Parental Involvement Focus Group
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Pamela J. Garrett
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November – December 2012
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A proposal listing the ideas and requests/ new strategies to increase parental involvement among the migrant parent population.
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Increase in migrant parental involvement
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Implement new strategies/ ideas that have been uncovered due to the research. Apply new knowledge towards increasing parental involvement for each year.
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Time,
Conduct count of migrant parents registering to be parent volunteers, and attending parental involvement meetings, Creation of parent survey’s to be used as evaluation of parent meetings.
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Pamela J. Garrett
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January- February 2012
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Annual Parent Conference held at the end of January for entire district. Evaluate the number of elementary migrant parents in attendance. Conduct parent surveys to determine the main area of interest for following year.
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Will you work with the parent's schedules to have this annual parent conference? Also, what about having a few at different times to make sure parents can work it into their schedules?
ReplyDeleteI will most definetly attempt to work with the parents as much as possible. Our monthy parent conferences are currently held on Thursdays at 5:30. You bring up a good point that our numbers may be so low due to parent's inability to attend due to work. However, we due offer child care and dinner is provided to those that due attend.
DeleteI like this topic and think it will benefit lots of students. The idea of a survey is good. Many parents of migrant students can often be reluctant to show up on a campus.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree about the reluctancy of parents. I am realizing now that not all of our parent's are legal residance, and therefore, they think their participation in the schooling of their children will jeopardize their ability to stay in the country.
DeleteI decided to follow your blog because we have the same topic. I really like that you are focusing on a particular population. Your research seems like it will produce positive results, and I look forward to seeing how it goes next semester. By the way, did you choose the migrant population due to numbers on your campus report?
ReplyDeleteActually yes. We have only 12 current parent volunteers at our campus and about 500 students. So that's what got me on the parental involvement topic. I then leaned towards the migrant population because not one of our migrant parents are volunteers.
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