100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Engaging Parents by Janet Goodall -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-title Page Dedication Page Series Page Title Page Contents Introduction How to use this book Part 1: Background

1 Parental involvement vs parental engagement 2 Why this book will save you time 3 Purposeful picking and choosing 4 Assets are better than deficits 5 From achievement gap to educational debt 6 Home learning environments matter – even for teenagers 7 Partnership working with parents 8 A wish-list for partnership 9 Eyes on the prize: it’s all about learning

Part 2: A whole-school effort

10 What do we believe? 11 Learning across the school 12 Judge not… 13 Think beyond the classroom 14 The importance of school leadership 15 Ditch the school improvement plan 16 Support support staff 17 The perils of policy (borrowing) 18 Change the discourse 19 Model learning and let parents know 20 Beware the power-play 21 PTA, parent council, parent forum… use your groups 22 Old skills, new uses

Part 3: What’s special about secondary?

23 What’s different about this phase? 24 What does ‘parent’ mean for secondary students? 25 All parents, not just the usual few 26 The importance of parental self-efficacy 27 The importance of parent-to-parent work 28 Working together across subjects 29 Working with feeder schools 30 It’s not a matter of money 31 Reporting back to parents 32 Reporting to support

Part 4: Understanding the parents of teenagers

33 Parenting is different for teenagers – but still vital 34 Transitioning transition 35 Working parents = tired parents 36 Parents of young people with additional needs 37 Are teachers human? 38 Handbook for Year 7 families 39 Supporting family learning 40 Not every child is in a family 41 Parents are teenagers who grew up 42 Who are your parents? 43 Planning for parents 44 Watch your language 45 Find out what parents want

Part 5: Setting up to support – an iterative process

46 ROIDH – records or it didn’t happen 47 Did it work? 48 Getting governors on board 49 In the community or part of the community? 50 Opening the school gates 51 What does your website say about you? 52 Making the most of the website 53 Pictures tell a thousand words 54 Tracking communications 55 Policies in plain (language) 56 Keeping track of it all in a large school 57 Get out of school 58 Social media and phones in school

Part 6: Vault (or at least surmount) the barriers

59 (Re)building bridges 60 Beware when talking barriers 61 Language barriers: part one 62 Careful of the cost 63 World Book Day 64 Language barriers: part two 65 Summer needn’t mean no learning 66 Giving information vs dialogue 67 You said, we did 68 Having difficult conversations

Part 7: Helping parents to help

69 How was your day? 70 Worry not 71 Share red flags early on 72 Supporting resilience 73 What do parents want to know? What do they need to know? 74 Sleep matters 75 Don’t wait to support aspirations 76 ‘University’s too expensive for us!’ 77 Don’t neglect the usual suspects 78 Not all bad all the time 79 Managing maths and learned helplessness in families 80 Supporting parents of the digital generation 81 Setting the course for coursework 82 Study skills – mind the gap! 83 It’s OK not to know the answer (helping parents towards mastery) 84 Parents and homework 85 Use effective praise with teenagers (and their parents!) 86 Who does what? (Teacher vs parent roles) 87 The parents you never see 88 Reflect then innovate 89 Keep talking 90 ‘Proud of you’ letters 91 Parent peer support

Part 8: Sustainable practice

92 It’s everyone’s job 93 Have a party! 94 Not my circus, not my monkeys 95 Every failure is an opportunity 96 Don’t start from scratch 97 Being a reflective practitioner 98 Utilise the expertise already around 99 Using the skills you have 100 Not quite finis…