
Project results
Best practices for engaging migrant and refugee parents in school
The report includes the results of a thorough mapping and analysis of innovative and effective practices for increasing parental engagement, collected from the participating countries of the project, as well as at EU level.
Training materials for teachers
Parenthelp - Platform
Parenthelp is a platform ries to give you short, matter-of-fact, simple answers and guide you to services and authorities you can turn to when you have official things to deal with. When a family arrive to a new country, especially with children, there are a lot of questions and also obligations that often don’t have any answer. Anybody can enter, choose the country he/she is interested in and also the language to read it in. It is possible find information about the need health care, education, family support and social services, but also questions about housing, employment, legal status and several other issues.
Information Package for parents
The Information Package is an essential tool for migrant and refugee parents to get familiar with the national educational system of the partner countries and a presentation of cases requiring parental engagement accompanied by suggested actions.
Digital storytelling of teachers and migrant and refugee parents’ experiences
Digital storytelling is defined as ‘the art of telling stories” with a variety of digital multimedia, such as images, audio, and video. Digital storytelling videos that present the experiences from migrant parents, as well as teachers, will be beneficial to listen to their stories and be inspired by their experiences and aspirations for the future of their children and students.
Policy recommendations for migrant and refugee parental engagement in schools
Tool for Teachers
This section is dedicated to a collection of useful documents for teachers with some theoretical input and some easily downloadable activities.
Read more
- Elternarbeit mit schwer erreichbaren Eltern (Sacher, 2012) – DE
- Home-School Partnership in Germany (Paseka&Killus,2022)
- How-to-involve-hard-to-reach-parents-full-report
- Keep the focus on learning
- Parents Engage Library
- Raising aspirations
- School readiness
- The home learning environment
- Building-a-Strong-Culture-of-Parent-School-Engagement
- Anticipate barriers
- Cultural competence self-assessment checklist
- Don’t judge – perceptions are important
- Don’t panic – you already have the skills you need
Useful Links
- https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/diversity-and-social-justice/cultural-responsiveness/self-assessment-checklist
- https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/media_migration/6e624973-2ca3-4344-8a17-d0e233d738f1.pdf
- https://www.thoughtco.com/parent-role-in-education-7902
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0895904816673739
- https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/146139638/DFE_RR156.pdf