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COLLABORATION

CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH HOME- SCHOOL COLLABORATION

Mark Dave T. Paborada

Central Philippines State University- Main Campus

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Abstract

Child Care and Development through Home-school Collaboration play as an active and

effective agent in child’s learning development. Vast amount of books and researches shows

support how this approach becomes effective and how it was being integrated in schools. Child

care and development through home-school collaboration were deeply understood by answering

and further discussed the following questions;

1. What does child care mean to you?

2. As a pre-school or early childhood teacher, how can child development be best promoted

through home-school collaboration approach?

Researches also shows that Home-school collaboration was both beneficial to parents and

teachers. As this approach getting more effective and widely used, more and more students gain

it’s positive and effective outcomes and acquired the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in

school and in life.

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CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH HOME- SCHOOL COLLABORATION

A vast amount of books, journals and researches have been conducted to support and

develop child care and development through home-school collaboration. Child care means

promoting children’s learning by improving the quality of early care and education and preparing

them to succeed in school. Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at

a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the

adults who provide for the care and education of children (Transforming the Workforce for

Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation). Belsky and Tresch Owen (1988) concur

that early day care experiences can be positive for children’s cognitive and linguistic development.

Child care and development through home- school collaboration are getting easier to be

develop, to implement, and very essential to the growth and enhancement of child’s performance

and attitude towards community, family and school. Home-school collaboration is an important

step in supporting a child’s positive engagement in the learning and social aspects of school life.

Parents and schools have common goal; to see children develop the skills for life and learning, to

see children succeed, and to see children happy. The goal of enhancing children’s competence,

participation, and positive learning and social behaviors cannot be achieved by teachers alone

and requires active partnership with families (Aisling Mulvihill, 2015). This is how child care and

development home-school collaboration approach work. Developing effective partnership across

home and school first requires an understanding and belief that parents and teachers are doing

best they can within the constraint of policy, time, life demands, knowledge, experiences and
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personal or work based resources. In developing positive partnerships, families and educators

work together as active and equal partners who share responsibility for the learning successes of

all students’ (NASP, 2012, p.1).

What does Child Care mean to you?

Child care is very important. As a teacher, it is our duties to mold the lives of our children

and have an opportunity to be a part in shaping it. Child care means taking care of them even if

takes time, money and effort in showing and letting them understand that they are much valued.

It also means believing their abilities to be an asset of the community where they belong. Through

proper guidance, we can lead them to be a successful one. Proper child care can leads children

to have more improved and positive attitudes towards school, have greater participation in school

activities, and have improved school attendance and higher academic achievement. Lastly, child

care means providing an educational component that is developmentally, culturally and

linguistically appropriate for the children served.

As a pre-school or early childhood teacher, how can Child Development be best promoted through

home-school collaboration approach?

As a pre-school or early childhood teacher, Child Development be best promoted through

home-school collaboration approach by developing positive partnership between school and

parents or positive home-school link. Home-school collaboration is a give and take relationship
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develop between parents and school and it is beneficial to both parties. It is a very important agent

to make home-school collaboration approach work. Each parties are both responsible in shaping

and developing children’s future. Below are the benefits of Home-school collaboration approach

according to Simon Workman.

To parents;

1. Enhance parental confidence

2. More positive experiences with teachers and schools

3. Improved communication with children

4. Increased confidence in their role of supporting homework completion

To teachers;

1. Increased Job satisfaction

2. Improved communication and positive relationship with families

3. Increased confidence in management of behavioral and learning challenges.

These are only few benefits, yet very signicant if we know how to use and apply it in life’s daily

approaches. In addition, home-school partnerships are focused on setting joint goals and

achieved across home and school. Effective partnership with benefits from clear and open

communication, with a focus on shared goals, shared language and shared supports. Ongoing

and responsive in recognition of the ever changing learning and social demands on children as

in they move through their school careers. Parents and teachers respond to needs as they arise,

share successes and build on positive outcomes.

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Conclusion

There were many approaches being used in various schools. As the technology continue

to evolved, education here in our country also has its progress. Different learning strategies or

approaches are widely introduced and used both in private and public schools. This approaches

were being measured depending on how we taught and integrate it to the school where we serve.

Child development are not only enriched and developed to school alone but also with the help

and support of the parents. The positive and effective collaboration of school and parents plays a

vital role in child’s development and enhancement. Therefore child care and development through

home-school collaboration has a strong impact to students’ success in school learning. School

education must be a “learner centered’ environment. Home-school link and collaboration must

takes place not only in words but in action. Sustainable development cannot be taught in isolation-

the whole school community has to be involved. Parents and teachers must be seen by children

to share similar values and attitudes to give a real impact to them. Children’s education does not

finish when they leave school at the end of the day. If we want parents to become real partners

and to develop positive and effective home-school collaboration, then we must be prepared to

spend time and effort in helping them to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to help their

children at home.
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References

Aisling Mulvihill, 2014

Belsky, J. “The Effect of Infant Day Care Reconsidered. Early Childhood Research Quarterly,

1998.

Belsky and Tresch Owen, 1998.

NASP, 2012, p.1

Pam North, Working towards Education for Sustainable Development, 2001.

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8. A Unifying Foundation
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