Parent involvement is crucial to running a successful classroom. According to Slavin (2018), studies have “shown that parents who involve themselves in their children’s education have higher-achieving children than other parents.” As a teacher, it is important to create an environment that encourages parent involvement.

For this assignment, I created flyers that I would hypothetically give to my parents.

The first is a poster of general information about how the parent can stay up to date about what is going on in the classroom:

The second poster was a hypothetical event that parents could attend in order to have more involvement in their students life. I want to provide a classroom where kids are truly thrilled about science!: