Can you please help with this question?
Home visits,where a teacher visits
children from her classroom and their
parents in their homes,are valuable
to all concerned. Which of the
following is the greatest challenge
to this form of parent involvement?
1. Teachers' concerns about personal
safety.
2. Teachers' concerns about cultural
differences.
3. Parents' concerns about family
privacy.
4. Scheduling difficulties.
Wouldn't #3, parents' concerns about
family privacy, be the greatest challenge?
Actually, since parents work these days, my experience is that scheduling is really hard: Finding houses after dark is tough and time consuming. You have to have a life also, not just the kids parents.
Secondly, not listed above, is another concern. Going alone makes for a visit on the terms of the parents, with no witnesses for people to call for help. What happens is your word against their word. You have no witnesses. You have no safety net...you know, of course, the effects of alcohol and drugs and testerone, and for a young teacher to walk into that alone (at night) is asking for big trouble. It is just not an issue of safety, but an issue of personal integrity and reputation.
But I did this, and scheduling is a real problem, especially in rural areas.
My first thought was #1 -- for most of the reasons Bobpursley listed above, plus the possible language barrier. Almost all my teaching experience was in a very rural area in the SoCal desert where the families are primarily Spanish-speaking at home.
#4 is also a real problem, for sure, given the schedules most parents keep these days, no matter what their socio-economic level.
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