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Transcript of QualiFLY – 3rd Project Meeting Dublin, 8-10 May 2006 Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for...
QualiFLY – 3rd Project Meeting Dublin, 8-10 May 2006
Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education, [email protected]
Working with parentsThe FLY project in Hamburg
Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education, [email protected]
Dr. Gabriele Rabkin, Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung, [email protected]
Ways of working with parents
1) How we recruit parents2) Activities with parents and childrenin the classroom3) Separate parents‘ sessions4) Joint children/parents‘ activitiesoutside school5) How we keep parents on the programme6) Literacy suitcase for parents
1) How we recruit parents
Parents‘ eveningsParents are contacted by
headmaster, teachers and other people involvedAdvocacy work (exhibitions, posters in the schools)
2) Activities with parents and children in the classroom
Reading booksLiteracy gamesWorking sheets (folder)Special events (e.g. drumming
with a musician, inviting a policeman)
3) Separate parents‘ sessions
Parents create a folder for theirchildParents write stories illustrated by family photosPresentation of „products“ in
public
4) Joint children/parents‘ activities
outside school
Literacy walksVisit of a museum, a market,
library, post office etc.
5.How we keep parents on the programme
Contact parents in different ways:Daily reminders by class teachers(telephone calls)Parents‘ visiting daysAttendance listsCertificates
Involvement of native speaking „keypersons“Pressure: „You must come“Private contacts of mothers among each otherChildren push their parents to come
Perspective: Make participation of children
with severe needs and their parent obligatory
How we keep parents on the programme
6. New project:Literacy suitcase for parents(with special funds)
A Turkish mother tried out a recipe from a cookbook in the suitcase.
She prepared little cakes for all the children in the class