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Enhancing Children's Development Through Parental Engagement

Explore the impact of parental involvement on children's development and academic achievement. Learn about key challenges faced by parents and staff, leadership basics, and effective home learning environments. Discover the factors shaping educational outcomes and teenage socio-economic disparities. Uncover barriers to parental engagement and challenges in modern parenting. Gain insights into effective leadership strategies for supporting parents and enhancing family-school partnerships.

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Enhancing Children's Development Through Parental Engagement

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  1. NPC Conference June 2014

  2. The impactof parental engagement onchildren’s development and achievement Professor Charles Desforges OBE

  3. Overview What is at stake What are the key challenges - parents - staff What to do leadership basics home learning environment What works

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  5. Factors shaping educationaloutcomes ▫ child’s characteristics ▫ family characteristics ▫ parental involvement ▫ school quality ▫ community ▫ peer group ▫ family support services

  6. Teenage outcomesand socio-economics Poorest Richest 25% 25% 5 GCSE (A* to C inc Ma & Eng) 20% 75% NEET at 17 15% 2% Truant at 14 24% 8%

  7. Explaining the link: major factors - parents’ attitudes and behaviours - material resources - young person’s attitudes and behaviours “What parents do is more important than who they are”

  8. Effects of parents/effect of schools achievement parents / school effects age 7 0.29 / 0.05 age 11 0.27 / 0.21 age 16 0.14 / 0.51 from Sacker et al (2002)

  9. Factors in parenting warmth consistency authoritative style skill hle

  10. Barriers to parental involvement ▫ extreme poverty and social chaos ▫ substance abuse ▫ depression ▫ the difficult relationship ▫ lack of confidence or knowledge ▫ alternative values ▫ barriers set up by schools

  11. Challenges to modern parenting Changes in: relationships social networks working circumstances children’s power finances

  12. Implications for leadership strategy for parent support analysis vision personalisation resourcing partnerships MER

  13. Leadership ▫ driven by ‘families matter’ vision ▫ whole school approach ▫ proactive ▫ outcomes focussed ▫ capacity building(capacity = motivation x skill x opportunity)

  14. Excellent basics 1Ofsted (2011) Schools and Parents ▫ values: parents as partners ▫ training ▫ planning ▫ evaluation

  15. Excellent basics 2 ▫ communication : front of house : information assessment and progress attendance and behaviour ▫ consultation ▫ complaints

  16. Fundamental home learning environment

  17. Toolkit needed ▫ identify parent needs ▫ audit current work ▫ identify useful initiatives ▫ develop action plan ▫ evaluation ▫ engage with other organisations

  18. Good practice in family learning (Ofsted 2009) leadership targeting and recruitment specifically designed programmes focus on building … confidence communication skills literacy/numeracy

  19. Lessons from research(Goodall and Vorhaus: 2011) best programmes train academic and parenting skills best effects: effect sizeparents helped to read to child 0.18 parents helped to listen to child read 0.51 parents helped to teach specific reading skills 1.15

  20. References Allen, G. (2011) Early Intervention: the next steps (an independent report to HM Government, Jan 2011) Estyn (2009) Good practice in parental involvement Field, F. (2010) The foundation years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults (the report of the independent review on poverty and life chances) (www.frankfield.co.uk) Goodall, J., and Vorhaus, J. (2011) Review of best practice in parental engagement London, DfE, RR DfE-RR156 Lexmond, J., Bazalgette, L., and Margo, J (2011) It is time to be honest about what good parenting involves: the home front. Demos (www.demos.co.uk) Ofsted (2011) - Schools and parents www.c4eo.org.uk www.nationalcollege.org.ukLeadership for parental engagement

  21. Charles Desforges c.w.desforges@exeter.ac.uk

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