Improving Parental Engagement | Optimus Education

Welcome to this course on effective parental engagement. This course is a combination of research and experience that will help you lead and communicate with your school stakeholders to develop strong relationships and effective partnership working.

NOTE: Throughout this course we use ‘school’ to cover the full range of educational establishments, and we use ‘parent’ to represent the principal adult or adults caring for the pupil.

Aims and outcomes

Explore the foundations of positive parental engagement.
Learn how parental engagement can be achieved in your busy school.
Create a clear strategy for implementing parental engagement at your school using practical tools.

Course content

Unit 1: The foundations of positive parental engagement

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- Step 1: What is parental engagement?
- Step 2: Benefits for pupils
- Step 3: Benefits for parents
- Step 4: Benefits for staff
- Step 5: Wider benefits
- End of Unit 1 quiz
Unit 2: Overcoming barriers to parental engagement

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- Step 1: Factors that can affect parents
- Step 2: Staff and school factors
- Step 3: How to overcome barriers
- Step 4: Three case studies
- End of Unit 2 quiz
Unit 3: Action planning and resources

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- Step 1: Creating a vision for parental engagement
- Step 2: Gathering parent voice
- Step 3: A parental engagement audit
- Step 4: Clear communication with parents
- Step 5: A parental engagement strategy
- End of Unit 3 quiz

Author

Julia Seymore

Julia Seymore is the founding clinical hypnotherapist at Oxford Family Hypnotherapy, working with adults and children. She started her career as a teacher specialising in challenging behaviour. Since then Julia has developed PSHE materials and...