Supporting teachers' and parents' partnerships thr..
Supporting teachers' and parents' partnerships through social-networking technologies
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Parental engagement has been found to be a powerful lever for improving the overall quality of school education (e.g. pupils' achievement, cognitive and social development, learning outcomes, school attendance rates). Teachers, as key-agents, will need to develop particular attitudes and skills so as to motivate, support parents and collaborate with them, as well as to deal with barriers that hinder parental engagement. The proposed project will set out to enforce teachers’ and school managers’ awareness, motivation, knowledge and skills that will enable them to strengthen parents’ roles. This will be implemented by utilizing state-of-the-art ICT networking tools that will provide online facilities for: (1) Networking among schools, teachers and parents;(2) Training for teachers in order to acquire i) the necessary skills for collaboration and engagement of parents, ii) ICT digital skills in order to use social networking tools efficiently so as to engage parents; (3) Access to digital resources that will help teachers and parents’ effective collaboration. The final outcome will be a specialized training framework and supportive materials for teachers around Europe on:- How to support, engage and motivate parents to collaborate with schools via social networking tools.- Developing strategies and initiatives that teachers and school managers could use to collaborate effectively with parents and to engage them in support of their children’s learning at home and at school.- Specific approaches for school leaders on how to support their teachers on designing and effectively implementing parental engagements activities. This process will enable teachers to gain empirical knowledge about parents’ engagement and to directly apply it in real-life situations, targeting a final number of 125 European schools. The training framework will be further sustained through an online training process along with toolkits and guidelines for school staff and policy makers.
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