This document discusses the effects of the home environment on student learning. It argues that parents play a crucial role in their children's education, as children spend most of their time outside of school influenced by their home and parents. The document notes that parental involvement is linked to higher student achievement, better attitudes towards school, and the development of good learning skills in children. It encourages parents to recognize the significant impact they can have by actively supporting their child's education.

1. EFFECTS OF HOME ENVIRONMENT ON
STUDENT LEARNING
Vincent Liu

2. The limitation of School
 "School age children spend 70% of their
waking hours (including weekends and
holidays) outside of school." (Michigan
Department of Education, 2002).
 Schools cannot provide a complete and
overall care and education that children
need.
 Their first skills are learned within the nuclear
and sometimes extended family.

3. Who should be responsible for student learning
beside school?

4. The answer is parents.
 "86% of the general public believes that
support from parents is the most important
way to improve schools."(Michigan
Department of Education).
 Students spend much more of their time
connected with their parents than what they
spend with their teachers.

5. The involvement of parents
 “Family level supports in the first two years of
life help predict achievement years later, in
elementary school”(Ferguson, 2009)
 “Students who achieve the highest test scores
among blacks, Hispanics and whites had
parents who were both responsive and
demanding” (Ferguson, 2009)
 Future success in education relies on a positive
home environment, and parental attitudes are a
key factor for children to develop good learning
skills.

6. The involvement of parents
 The videos “Parental Involvement”
demonstrate that many students’
achievement are a direct result of parental
support.

7. Benefits for student learning
 The article posted by BirtMums on Twitter
suggests that research has demonstrated
that the more parents participate in their
child’s education, the more success their
child will achieve at every level.

8. Benefits for student learning
 Better attitudes towards school and
educators
 Higher grades and test scores
 Creating a learning culture and helping skills
and confidence
(UK Department for Education, 2012)

9. Benefits for school
 Parents' involvement is an ideal supplement
to school education.
 “A student’s home environment has
significant effects on learning and school
performance” (Hill, 2010).

10. Questions
 Some people believe that the role of parents
in the education is overestimated. Do you
agree or disagree? Why?
 Do you think that parents have more power
and influence over students compared to the
influence of school education systems or do
you think they just supplement school
education systems?

11. Questions
 What are conflicts that you think may exist in
the involvement of parents in student
learning?
 Do you agree that governments should pay
attention to the home environment and
student learning rather than focusing on the
development of the school education
system?
 What are ways the government could
support and supplement the involvement of
parents in the children’s learning?

12. The summary
 We cannot understate the importance of parents
on education.
 Parents who participate whole-heartedly in the
education and development of their children
experience less discipline issues with their
children and, as a result, the children become
self-motivated to learn. It is important that
parents realize how positive the impact will be
when they provide strong supportive interaction
with their children.