This fall, some elementary and high school students will continue with online learning due to COVID-19.
When classrooms went online due to COVID-19, this marked not only a major transformation in kindergarten to Grade 12 education, but a shift in parents? involvement in their children?s education. Schools communicated primarily online via email and social media (or sometimes the phone) to keep in touch with parents, and every family had to determine to what extent supporting remote learning was possible.
This shift built upon changing patterns which emerged years ago, as parental ?e-nvolvement? is now in many schools today. Now, there is greater reliance on technology not only for teacher-parent communication, but technology has also become embedded within projects and homework. Students are increasingly likely to become engaged in online or hybrid (both in class and online) learning, and this is not only due to the pandemic?there has been a rise of online learning in school systems. Researchers? understanding of how parent involvement supports students when students are engaged in hybrid and in fully online educational environments is developing.
Some parents who chose remote learning for their children this fall could also be facing work schedules or family circumstances that make supporting remote learning difficult. Fortunately, small acts of parental support and encouragement can have big impacts on student success. Amid the varied constraints and barriers families fac...