Positive Effects of Research: Option 2

If I could conduct research on children on any topic, I would choose to conduct research on the effects on effective teacher and parent relationships in low-economic communities. The reason I choose this is because I want to see the benefits of a healthy relationship between the child's teacher and their parents. Often I see that teachers and parents sometimes are just going through the motion, or doing the bare minimal.  I know that there is currently research that looks at the teacher and parent relationships, but I really want to conduct this research in low-economic communities, where teacher-parent relationships are not frequently seen. My research question would be, "The benefits of teacher and child relationships in low- socio economic communities." I would choose five centers to work with for a period of three years.The reason I want to choose three years because I want to see the lasting effects and not temporary effects.

I imagine that the positive contributions is that we would see that by having effective teacher-parent relationships in low-economic communities, the children will have benefits lasting throughout grade school. I also want to see if there is an effective teacher-parent relationship, is there a change in how the teacher works with the child? I also want to research the steps both the teacher and parents took to make their relationship work. 

 

Your Personal Research Journey

I am so excited to be conducting research on a topic that I got introduced to but didn't have time to really find out a lot of information about. The topic that I chose is immigrant children and their families. My subtopics are immigrant families and language barriers, immigrant families and access to quality child care and immigrant families and unauthorized immigrants parents. I am still in the process of coming up with a question, but I am trying to decided exactly what I want to ask.

The reason I chose this topic is because I live in a city, Austin that has a increasing number of immigrant families. I the subtopics that I chose are barriers that I see immigrant families are facing. As my community strives to end the barriers, I still see that the barriers are present.

When I was going through the simulation process, I tried to think about a topic that I was really interested about. I am a person who gets bored very easily, so I wanted to choose something that was going to keep my interest. During the simulation process, I created a brainstorming web. I started out with the topic that I was interested in, which was immigrant families, and then I made a web of topics that I wanted to learn more about. This is how I created the subtopics. The next step for me is to create a central question that is linked to my topic.

Research has always been a foreign concept to me, but I am learning so much in just a couple of weeks. I use to think that reading research was so complicated, but learning the process, is really making it easy. As I move forward I continue to learn tips about research, and I am actually finding job in the process.