Home Environments

Sandra Murphy
Julianne Lyons
Jorge Sanchez
 Home Environments and the
impact it has on education....
● Every student comes from different home
environments, and depending on the circumstances it
can impact their educational goals, academic outlook,
financial opportunity, and success.
● Students that come from difficult home environments
are able to cope in a positive manner when they have
a supportive school system.
● Equity is important in both schools and home
environments for a greater chance of academic
success.
● Research question: How do the home environments
of ESL students impact their academic advancement in
the traditional English school system?
ANALYSIS...
● Socioeconomic barriers that ESL students face in
their home environment are shown to be a strong
measure of their academic achievement (Pressley, 2004)
● ESL students fluctuate from speaking their native
language at home to learning English at school by
memorization, repetition, and testing (Pressley,2004)
● In United States hispanic students make up the
largest ELL population (Zhimei Gu, 2013)

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The Importance for Teachers...
• Teachers need to facilitate a strong
relationship with their students to better
understand the dynamic of their students
home environments.
• incorporating all learning styles and
promoting an equitable education to
ensure the success of all students in and
outside of the classroom
• Allowing these students to express their
cultural creativity through language
inside the classroom
“Equity is the principle of altering
current practices and perspectives
to teach for social transformation
and promote equal learning
outcomes for students of all racial,
cultural, linguistic and soci-
economic groups.”
-Enid Lee, New Teacher
Center
 Research Question: Foster Care
How does the Foster Care System impact children’s education?
• Lack of self-regulatory skills (Pears, K., 2013)
• social skills, poor psychological skills, and poor academic skills
• Lack of school readiness because of the lack of caregiver involvement
• High risk of homelessness (Clemens, E. V. 2016)
• High risk of ending up in jail
• High risk of becoming pregnant
• High risk of not having a job
• High risk of not graduating high school/GED or going to college
 Foster care: Graduation Rates

Limitations that Foster care youth

endure impact their education so
greatly.
In the study conducted by Wendy
Blome, statistical analysis proved
that the foster care system needs to
be updated in order to insure
children’s futures are not
jeopardized (Blome, W. W., 1997)
 Foster Care: Behavioral, Affective, and
Cognitive (Pears, K., 2013)
Behavioral Affective Cognitive
• Teachers reported • Foster Care children • Teachers reported
about students showed less emotion about students
behavior in the than non-foster care behavior in the
classroom. children about school classroom.
• FCS: 76% more • FCS: 46.3% reported • FCS: 65.4% less
behavioral reports showing no emotion. cognitive skills
Research Question: How does a low income home
environment impact a student’s education?
- higher stress levels
- lower graduation rates
- less parent involvement
- lack of academic support at home
- impaired cognitive abilities due to family instability
- poor health
- slower to develop academic skills
- behavioral problems
Graduation Rates

California student achievement gap

between low income and non-low
income students in 2014-15
 How can we help?

- Listen to your students and build strong relationships

- keep expectations for low income students high
- provide access to resources like free lunch, after chool and summer
programs, health care
- focus on parent and community engagement