Engaging Families in Schools

Name: Engaging Families in Schools
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138646247
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Practical strategies to improve parental involvement

By Nicola S. Morgan

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Engaging Families in Schools by Nicola S. Morgan offers practical strategies to enhance parental involvement in education, positively impacting children's learning. The book is organised into ten accessible units covering topics from understanding parental engagement to working with diverse family groups and improving student outcomes through family-school collaboration.
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This guide is ideal for teaching and non-teaching staff seeking to strengthen the connection between school and family life and understand the benefits of active family engagement in education.

Description

Engaging Families in Schools is a practical resource that provides strategies and ideas that will contribute to the effective engagement of families and the involvement of parents in their child’s education. Parental engagement with school staff has a significant and very positive impact on children’s learning, and strategies presented have been extensively trialled in a variety of different settings.

Nicola S. Morgan shows school staff how to understand the importance of family engagement and evidence the outcomes. This book has been split into ten easily accessible units:

Understanding the importance of parent engagement
Using whole-school strategies to engage parents
The role of the family engagement officer
Engaging all parents
Engaging Dads
Engaging multicultural parents
Difficult to engage parents
Working with parents to improve student attainment
Working with parents to improve behaviour and attendance
Working with parents of children with additional needs

This is a must-read guide for teaching and non-teaching staff who wish to bridge the gap between their student’s school and family life and understand the effects of positive family engagement.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138646247

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 12 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 180

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About the Author

Nicola S Morgan is a consultant on family engagement and behaviour management in the UK and internationally, a teacher and author. She has previously published Better Behaviour Through Home-School Relations (2013) and Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School (2012), both published by Routledge.