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APPENDIX A <br /> Possible Methods for i,ncre' ink Fa-refit Involvemeht in Elementary Education <br /> 1. Establish more active volunteer progxam - <br /> 2. Evaluate x'rom available data what programs-tire most. effective ;. <br /> ( This can be accomplished in conjunction with individual school PTAs). <br /> 3. Increase the recogn,ition•for volunteers and have more people in <br /> the system whose job is to coordinate parent involvement at the. <br /> individual school .level. <br /> 4. ,Consider degree of parent involvement an important criteria for <br /> promotion and tanure of principals. <br /> 5. Payment for elected :ETA leaders, especially in larger schools plus. � <br /> perhaps furnishing office space and telephone.use should be.•considered.. <br /> 6. Payment to each parent for -up to AO hours/year of service work in i <br /> the classroom or alternate work in the school. <br /> 7. Use the public relations department of the school system to strongly <br /> publicise the need for parent involvement <br /> 8.. Set up teacher -volunteers for grading papers, correcting. homework <br /> etc. so that parents 'get a sense of accomplishment. <br /> APPENDIX fi <br /> Possible Factors involve4:ir- the hi?h-correlation of parent involvement <br /> and test scores <br /> 1. Parent volunteers actually in classroom <br /> 2. Parents monitoring of students' homework <br /> I <br /> 3. Receptiveness of school principal,and teachers to parent involvement <br /> 4. Parent complaints requiring changes in the way school is operated <br /> 5. Parents closely monitoring students'progress and requesting remedial <br /> help as soon as it is required. <br /> 6. .Smaller schools -provide better social environments for parent interacticri <br /> and cooperativRactivities.- <br /> 7'i.Smaller schools provide manageable jobs for volunteer PTA leaders. <br /> They can therefore better achieve •their objectives with viable programs. <br /> 8. Smaller schools generally have srmnaller geographical• areas.-so that . <br /> more. parents can schedule volunteer activities-into busy schedules <br /> 9. Specific schools may •have increased concentrations of single parentis <br /> or working parent pairs with less time for parent involvement ( The <br /> large change in scores as a :function of parent involvement would <br /> -indicate that this is important in individual cases but would not <br /> explain the countywide results. as a whole). <br />