Benefits to Students:
Better behavior and conduct.
Increase in academic performance.
Higher standardized test scores.
Better ease at learning, and trust in their teacher.
Forms a higher level of respect for teachers, themselves, and others.
Benefits to Parents:
Parents are secure knowing that teachers genuinely care for the welfare of their children.
Parents can also be sure that their children are in a safe environment.
Creates a trusting bond between the teacher and parent.
Parents feel confident that their child’s future is in the hands of teachers who go beyond the call of duty to guarantee each student’s prosperity.
Parents are informed of their child’s progress at all times.
Allows parents to become a part of the school environment.
Benefits for Teachers:
Students` attitude changes positively. They feel a connection to you.
Teachers feel confident knowing that they can provide students with the greatest assistance in their academic journey.
The teachers mainly benefit from the genuinely good feeling they have after watching the students that they taught succeed throughout their life.
Overall Benefits of Home Visits:
Strengthened parent/teacher relationships
Increase in overall student achievement and test scores.
Decrease in student discipline issues.
Increase in student attendance.
The feeling of trust, mutual respect, empowerment, and accountability by parents, students, and staff.
Educational Facts
What do teachers think?
A strong majority ( 84%) of the 60 teachers in this study reported that the home visit had an extremely positive effect on their relationship with the parents. (Stetson, Stetson, Sinclair, & Nix, 2012)