Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Parent Involvement I am currently a teaching student and have been reading about parental involvement in school. I read that it is beneficial to have parent volunteers in order to help you around the classroom but that first-year teachers are sometimes unsure of how to ask for this help. How have you solicited help before and which ways do you find to be the most beneficial? Also, have you ever had a "power struggle" with having a parent in the classroom and if so, how did you go about handling it? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think you should ask parents who are wanting to be really involved. as a parent myself, I believe that parental involvement could be powerful but you have to plan and let the parents know what they will do when they come because it is not good to make them feel ignored by not giving them tasks the time they come.