Parental Engagement: sustainable school improvement to raise student attainment “The effect of Parental Engagement over a student’s school career is equivalent to adding an extra 2 or 3 years to that student’s education.” Prof. John Hattie, University of Melbourne Research shows that: ● Parental Engagement is one of the most effective strategies school scan adopt to raise student attainment.
● Students whose parents model positive aspirations about education (Parental Engagement) have children who perform better at school than parents with low aspirations. ● There is a strong correlation between the quality of Parental Engagement in a school and the academic success of its students. ● When selecting schools for their children, Parents consider the school’s approach to Parental Engagement to be one of the most important factors.
MAKE YOUR SCHOOL AN OUTSTANDING SCHOOL World leaders in Parental Engagement, Engagement in Education, welcome Norma Lea, former Vice Principal, of The Winchester School, Jebel Ali, Dubai, and driving force behind the GEMS Parental Engagement programme, to their highly experienced team of trainers. We are looking to work with just 6 schools in the UAE. Could one of them be yours?
What’s included: 1. Face-to-face training for your school’s leadership team, all staff, your parents and students by the team that that has transformed attitudes through their ground-breaking approach to Parental Engagement in schools in England, and International schools in 7 different countries. 2. A Vision and implementation strategy to meet the needs of your school. 3. Sustainability through the training of staff and parent champions and then free access to online training resources - ensuring that you have the capacity to deliver your own in-house training on an annual basis. 4. A monitoring package that allows you to keep track of how the implementation is progressing. 5. A recording system that allows you to track the outcomes of
Parental Engagement. 6. The creation of a Parental Engagement policy and adaptation of all other policies that relate to the initiative. 7. The option to adopt the latest methodology in reporting to parents, Free Flow Info. This option includes training, mentoring and coaching with your teachers to improve: ● Effective feedback * ● Meta-cognition and self-regulation * *Identified by The Sutton Trust as adding 8 months to a child’s annual progress.