Enhancing Parental Engagement in Learning: A Toolkit Overview
Explore the importance of engaging parents in their children's learning, why it is crucial for social justice, and the impact of a quality home learning environment. Learn about parental involvement with schools, challenges in teacher training for supporting parental engagement, and the essential elements needed for effective engagement. Discover a toolkit designed to enhance parental involvement in learning, evaluated, and refined over time with ongoing trials in various educational settings.
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PARENT ENGAGEMENT: A TOOLKIT DR JANET GOODALL This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
PARENTS Adults with a significant caring responsibility for the child .
Why should we care about engaging parents with learning? This is an issue of social justice This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
For all children, the quality of the home learning environment is more important for intellectual and social development than parental occupation, education or income What parents do is more important than who parents are (Sylva et al, 2004)
Parental involvement with schools Reading in class Going on Trips Parents Evenings Parental involvement with schooling Helping with homework Keeping track of coursework Parent engagement with children s learning Moral support Interest in learning Guidance
TEACHER TRAINING Teachers are rarely trained to support effective parental engagement in learning (Willemse, Vloeberghs et al. 2016, Willemse, de Bru ne et al. 2017, Willemse, Thompson et al. 2018, Goodall, Ramadan et al. 2021) Teachers may discourage or discount the support parents are able to offer, due to assumptions on the basis of background, SES, ethnicity (Berkowitz et al., 2017) Teachers may also not recognise the support parents give to students (Hamlin & Flessa, 2018) This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
What is needed: Targeted, responsive, culturally appropriate support for engagement with learning Designed in conjunction with parents, school staff, young people and researchers Implemented in partnership with families Evaluated effectively (Goodall and Vorhaus, 2011; Goodall and Weston 2018, 2019)
AND TO THAT END. A TOOLKIT First designed 2015 for work with schools in Somerset evaluated, refined Refined again in relation to the continued use of the Epstein framework for parental involvement framework element published in Wales Journal of Education Used by schools in Aberdeen further trials going on in Queensland Catholic Schools This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Meant to be interactive a living document
TOOLKIT Introduction: Background, what parental engagement with learning is, why it s important, barriers, moving on from the pandemic Using the toolkit The present: to gauge where you are now, what your practices really are
THE FUTURE Where you want to be (online version available)
CONTINUUM FRAMEWORK Based on the continuum from parental involvement engagement
USING THE TOOLKIT Work with staff and parents share widely Be creative think outside the box! Share widely work with other schools (local, feeder, etc ) This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
OVER TO YOU! @janetifimust J.s.goodall@swansea.ac.uk
