Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Welcome to the Connect Family Engagement Academy from Eileen Prior, Executive Director, Connect

    • How to use this course

    • Before we begin...
  2. 2

    • Welcome to Influencing Family Engagement for Improvement

    • About Connect

    • About this Module

    • Aims and objectives

    • Family engagement glossary
  3. 3

    • Exploring the research on family engagement - introduction

    • Essential reading on family and parental engagement

    • What is parental engagement or involvement?

    • Family engagement vs involvement

    • Exploring the research on family engagement - recap
  4. 4

    • Where policy and engagement intersect - introduction

    • Key legislative and policy drivers

    • Additional legislative and policy drivers

    • Learning in context: professional learning and practice

    • GTC Scotland Professional Standards 2021 - some further reading

    • The moral imperative

    • Where policy and engagement intersect - recap
  5. 5

    • Exploring family engagement in action - introduction

    • Current practice reflections

    • Exploring family engagement in action - recap

    • Excellence in headship live webinar 1 - see email from [email protected] for joining instruction
  6. 6

    • Models for family engagement and exploring ways families can get involved - introduction

    • Models for family engagement & Connect's model

    • Ways parents and families can get involved

    • Ways parents and families can get involved - extra examples

    • Models for family engagement and exploring ways families can get involved - recap
  7. 7

    • Challenges to family engagement - introduction

    • Ways families can get involved - where are the gaps? - where are the challenges?

    • Defining and understanding challenges to engagement

    • Challenges around poverty

    • Some statistics - download

    • Challenges to family engagement - recap
  8. 8

    • Review current engagement - introduction

    • The engagement stocktake tool

    • Review current engagement - where are we now?

    • Review current engagement - recap
  9. 9

    • Action planning - introduction

    • Setting priorities for improvement and action planning

    • Action plan template

    • Action Plan examples for Early Years, Primary and Secondary

    • Thinking about evaluation

    • Action planning - recap
  10. 10

    • Collaborative approaches and problem solving - introduction

    • Examples of family engagement in action three short film clips

    • Primary School case studies

    • Secondary School case studies

    • Collaborative approaches and problem solving - recap
  11. 11

    • Excellence in headship live webinar 2 - see email from [email protected] for joining instruction

    • Implications for settings

    • Here's what's next...

    • More resources and opportunities for you

    • Before you go...please complete this self evaluation and give feedback
  12. 12

    • Engagement Ideas for 1-year action plan - for schools & nurseries

    • Encouraging parental engagement - top tips and video from Dr Janet Goodall