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Name of the tool
Working with parents in a multicultural environment |
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Links to the keystones
skills, attitudes, awareness, knowledge |
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Aim of tool/ Brief overall description
- Developing a positive attitude towards the cooperation with parents and looking at parents as allied partners
- Knowing about the importance of systemic networks (effecting the efforts of parents on educational achievements of their children)
- Knowledge about successful concepts in the field of working with parents
- Knowledge and practising of skills like leading parental talks and how to prepare a parent’s evening in the school
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Main methods
- Simulations (presentation parents' evening, parental talks)
- Get to know from projects by experts
- Self-reflection
- School visits/field work learning
- Video film analyses
- Questionnaire
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Description of the process and the possible stepping stones
This tool is sequenced over several working sessions. According to the model of competences we work in different areas:
Reflection of the own school career biography: Associations and self-reflection of the experiences of parental work as student helps to get aware of the own positive and negative experiences with parents in school.
Reflection of the work at school: In the new role as teacher I am influenced by my colleagues – their attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes.
The teacher trainees investigate which original cultures are represented in their classes. They compile in groups knowledge about the origin cultures (religion, migration history, traditions, language (words: as "Good afternoon".), ethnical behaviours, values, meaning and statute of mothers, fathers, teachers., categories of Hofstede like distance- nearness, time, power, Gender … and present their results.
They receive insight into different projects of parental work.
They get to know basic skills how to lead talks with migrant parents.
They receive a questionnaire to analyze how the school is working with parents.
The teacher trainees simulate a parents' evening. They train to present themselves and their concept of teaching and to get in contact with the parents.
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Instruments
; Video films; Powerpoint presentation “Working with parents”, simulation exercises (e.g. parent’s evening), guidelines for parental talk
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Equipment
Flipchart
Pin board
PC
Beamer |
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Author
Eva Woelki
Mira Koch
Irene Litterst-Lehmann
Bernd Schüssele
Rose Bauer
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Institution
Staatliches Seminar für Didaktik und Lehrerbildung (GHS) Offenburg, Germany |
