What is Home Visit Program?
It is my belief that we should work together as partners in education of your child. As partners, we should both be fully aware of your child’s academic progress. For this purpose, we would like to make Home visits
Teachers make home visits to talk about the latest and most updated information about student’s progress where all the family members attend. Usually it takes around 40 minutes and 2-3 teachers of the student make the visit together. Home visit program is not a mandatory program. However as a part of Paragon Science Academy’s school model, we do encourage the parents to get involved in this program.
. I am attaching an article about the importance of Home-Visits. Please take time to read the article, fill out the form provided at the end, and return it to either front office or your homeroom teacher at your earliest convenience.
Why Make Home Visits?
Teachers are making home visits in order to better meet the needs of the child and family. In promoting a partnership between parents and teachers, home visits provide the means for effective team problem solving, observing children in their home environment, and encouraging parent involvement. While providing teaching services for the child, home visits may also lend distressed parents needed support to foster positive parenting. Effective home visiting furthers the mental, emotional, and physical health and development of the child by serving the whole family.
Visiting students and parents on their own turf is a way for teachers to learn more about their students, get the parents more involved in their child's education, and bridge cultural gaps that might occur between student and teacher. Most teachers report their home visits have a lasting effect on the child, the parent, and parent-teacher communication.
Encouraging parents to become more involved in their child's education by opening their homes to teacher visits has brought positive results to the schools, and teachers that have tried it.
’Now home visits are catching on across the grade levels and around the world. Schools in England, Australia, Japan, and the United States all report success with teacher home visits. Many school districts now have programs that require teachers to visit their students' homes at least once each school year. In the near future, home visits may become part of many more teachers' job descriptions.
In short;
The benefits of the Home Visit Program are as follows
1. To show that Teacher values the student and visits him/her.
2. To encourage the parents to get more involved.
3. To update the family with student’s latest progress and solving the problems (if any)
4. To get feedback from the parents and students regarding their suggestions, questions, complaints to better meet their needs and improve the education quality in the school.
References / Sources
http://www.pthvp.org/
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin241.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/US/9909/07/teacher.home.visits/