The Project
About the project
Parents Engage project was born from a partnership composed by seven organisations from Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Turkey. We work together to reinforce teachers’ skills in fostering productive relations with migrant and refugee families, supporting migrant and refugee parents to be involved at their children’s schools, improving education and tackling ESL and disadvantaged migrant and refugee children in primary and secondary education.
Objectives
To capitalise on the experiential knowledge of CSOs
working with migrants and refugees by researching and evaluating their relevant practices.
To provide evidence-based teacher training
for enabling teachers to strengthen parental engagement at school so as to improve the academic performance of children and avoid Early school leaving.
To reach out migrant and refugee parents directly
providing tailored support materials for increasing their school engagement.
Activities
Identification, collection, assessment and analysis
of existing innovative educational initiatives that are developed by CSOs and are aimed at increasing refugee and migrant parental engagement in children’s education. Additional mapping of school-led initiatives at the participating countries, in light of ensuring a more comprehensive approach on the examined issue.
Training Materials
Development of Training Materials for teachers and Information Packages for parents
Small scale piloting in schools
Partner organisations will support teachers in delivering a small-scale pilot in their schools. Trained teachers will pilot the techniques of parental engagement for migrant and refugee parents
Digital storytelling
Digital storytelling of teachers and migrant and refugee parents’ experiences with parental engagement in school
Mobile App
Development of a mobile application that will be targeted to and for parents for involving them in engaging practices that will enforce their involvement in the school environment.
Policy recommendations
Policy recommendations for migrant and refugee parental engagement in schools