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Effective parental partnerships. Trevor Folley [email protected]. Professor Charles Desforges. Leading Learning for Sustained Reform 2009 presentation. How does the relationship between parents and their child’s setting/school change over the years?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Professor Charles Desforges
Leading Learning for Sustained Reform
2009 presentation
How does the relationship between parents and their
child’s setting/school change over the years?
The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement and adjustment
Professor Charles Desforges and Alberto Abouchaar (2003)
Some key findings:
• Parental involvement has a significant effect on children’s achievement
• Parental involvement takes many forms
• In essence parenting influences through shaping the child’s self-concept as a learner and through establishing high aspirations
• The level of involvement is associated with social class, poverty, health, and parental perception of their role and confidence in fulfilling it
• It is strongly influenced by the child taking an active mediating role
Recent developments
• ‘Go Compare’
• ‘Parent View’
• New performance table info (next year)
The government claims these changes represent ‘the most ambitious open data agenda of any government in the world.’
What do parents want?DCSF research 2007
• 96% agreed that it was extremely important to make sure their child attended regularly
• 86% said the school provided clear information about their child’s progress
• 92% said the school was welcoming• Around ¾ felt that it was extremely important to help with
their child’s homework (58% did so most of the time)• Informal discussions were seen as the most useful way
of finding out children’s progress• ⅔ said they would like to be more involved in their child’s
school life (73% where felt uninvolved)
What does Ofsted want?‘Schools and parents’ 2011
• Audit and use parents’ skills and expertise as a resource
• Tailor communications with parents to suit individual circumstances
• Use parental complaints as a stimulus for improvement
• Evaluate impact of parental involvement on outcomes for pupils
• In secondary – enable parents to engage more directly with children’s learning
The challenge
Developing a partnership with parents that empowers them to be co-educators
Categories of contingent elements for sustaining improvement.
In a nutshell parents need to…
• recognise their responsibility
• believe they can make a difference
• have the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and opportunities
• do something
• see it making a difference
Successful partnerships with parents
Where to start?
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