1st Edition

Engaging Families in Schools Practical strategies to improve parental involvement

By Nicola S. Morgan Copyright 2017
    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    Engaging Families in Schools is a practical resource that provides strategies and ideas that will contribute to the effective engagement of families and the involvement of parents in their child’s education. Parental engagement with school staff has a significant and very positive impact on children’s learning, and strategies presented have been extensively trialled in a variety of different settings. Nicola S. Morgan shows school staff how to understand the importance of family engagement and evidence the outcomes. This book has been split into ten easily accessible units:

    • Understanding the importance of parent engagement
    • Using whole-school strategies to engage parents
    • The role of the family engagement officer
    • Engaging all parents
    • Engaging Dads
    • Engaging multicultural parents
    • Difficult to engage parents
    • Working with parents to improve student attainment
    • Working with parents to improve behaviour and attendance
    • Working with parents of children with additional needs

    This is a must-read guide for teaching and non teaching staff who wishes to bridge the gap between their student’s school and family life and understand the effects of positive family engagement.

    1. Understanding the importance of parent engagement  2. Using whole-school strategies to engage parents  3. The role of the family engagement officer  4. Engaging all parents  5. Engaging Dads  6. Engaging multicultural parents  7. Difficult to engage parents  8. Working with parents to improve student attainment  9. Working with parents to improve behaviour and attendance  10. Working with parents of children with additional needs

     

    Biography

    Nicola S Morgan is a consultant on family engagement and behaviour management in the UK and internationally, a teacher and author. She has previously published Better Behaviour Through Home-School Relations (2013) and Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School (2012), both published by Routledge.

    "This is a must-read guide for teaching. Often it is the non-teaching staff who try to engage with parents, and this book is written very much with them in mind, as well as for teaching staff. Those reading this book will find it helps them bridge the gap between their student's school and family life and understand the effects and the benefits of positive family engagement."

    Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch Review