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Enhancing Parental Engagement using ICT: 4 May 2011 - London

Author: Anna Street
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Over the last decade ICT has played an increasingly important role in how, what and when schools communicate with parents. The availability of technology at home to access information and learning content, support social networking, make online payments and provide email and text messaging services is making a big impact on the partnership between schools and parents. Parents (and you may be one) are increasingly expecting more timely and meaningful communication from schools to help them engage with, and support, their children’s learning.







Are you interested in issues such as:

•Improving the use of learning platforms, websites, email and text messaging for efficiently communicating with parents?
•Helping parents to understand and support children’s homework?
•Consulting with parents about becoming an academy?
•Trying to reach the harder to engage parents?
•Getting parental support and contributions for 1:1 eLearning access?

It is a simple and obvious fact that parental engagement with their child’s learning plays the single largest role in the educational outcomes for children.

Overview

The course iwas highly relevant for staff from primary, secondary and special schools including classroom teachers, members of the leadership team and governors who are charged with the complex issue of increasing the effective engagement of parents.

It was also relevant to advisers and consultants, who as a result of attending are able to offer training and support opportunities tailored to local needs.

Course sessions

This one day course was:

  • packed full of real examples of how schools nationally have made effective use of ICT to engage parents,
  • provided an opportunity for participants to network and share their own experience and practice, and
  • included access to a set of “free to use” online materials and tools that can be used within participants’ own schools or to support other schools.

Participants were informed of:

•the facts about the impact of parental engagement on outcomes,

•the most effective ways that ICT can support parental engagement,

•things to consider about efficiencies and administrative burdens,

•how to make better use of existing resources and systems, and

•what to look for in future ICT systems to support parental engagement.


Aims of the course:

The course aimed to provide useful advice and guidance for managing the changes to culture, behaviour and practice involved in:

•Improving the quality and meaningfulness of information recorded and reported to parents.

•Meeting the expectations of parents for improved dialogue and engagement.

•Developing the whole school workforce to communicate effectively and safely with parents.

•Innovation and exploiting the technology available to reach all parents.

The day also provided opportunities to discuss cascade training arrangements and plan direct working and support of schools.


Programme

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This was an additional training course to add to the Naace/SHP partnership calendar of events. 

This course can be used as the starting point for a Naace ICT CPD award. See www.naace.co.uk/cpdaward for details.
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Enhancing Parental Engagement using ICT: 4 May 2011 - London
Over the last decade ICT has played an increasingly important role in how, what and when schools communicate with parents. The availability of technology at home to access information and learning content, support social networking, make online payments and provide email and text messaging services is making a big impact on the partnership between schools and parents. Parents (and you may be one) are increasingly expecting more timely and meaningful communication from schools to help them engage with, and support, their children’s learning.







Are you interested in issues such as:

•Improving the use of learning platforms, websites, email and text messaging for efficiently communicating with parents?
•Helping parents to understand and support children’s homework?
•Consulting with parents about becoming an academy?
•Trying to reach the harder to engage parents?
•Getting parental support and contributions for 1:1 eLearning access?

It is a simple and obvious fact that parental engagement with their child’s learning plays the single largest role in the educational outcomes for children.
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