STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL.

LEARNING COMMUNITIES.

Mª DOLORES ORTEGA COY, MARÍA LIZÁN MORENO, ANDREA MARTINEZ DÍAZ, PAOLA GARCÍA ALCOLEA, BENIAMIN LETOWSKI

Measures to promote the participation of parents in school

LEGISLATIVE

MEASURES:

Contributed to the participation

of parents in school: the

Constitution, LODE, LOGSE and LOPEGCE

This means the recognition of

the fundamental rights of the

family of institutionalized

education.

ORGANISATIONAL MEASURES:

The Council of school Center

active participation of

parents and provides them

with the indirect

possibility of participating in

a number of organs that are

own and exclusive teachers

In addition, as full-fledged

members have competencies to participate

in the elaboration

and monitoring of the internal

regime regulation

A. Institutional strategies of group participation:

B. Institutional strategies of personal participation.

Tutoring must be understood as essential educational action work and not complementary work. The tutorial model has a family dimension. All the problems of students are shared with the family and the school.

Importance of tutoring

interaction with parents:

1. Because the lack of action with parents

means to reduce the scope of the activity of

the tutorial;

2. The low efficiency and slow evolution

which is achieved in the action with students

whose parents do not cooperate.

The parents of students’

Association (APA)

Parents’ schools

C. Strategies to para-institutional participation.

Parents can promote activities, participate

in the educational project of the Centre,

in the General programming, etc.

To provide training, education to parents.

The development of the functioning of the organizational strategies

Parents of the School Council

Teachers feel

threatened

By parents in this

maximum governing

body

Parents believe

Their participation is to control

and undermine

the power of teachers

Strategy that enables the interaction

The lack of training of teachers in these matters

The development of the functioning of the organizational strategies

Mentoring with

parents

Makes individual and group mentoring parents as participatory

spaces are reduced to the holding of two meetings: at the beginning and

at the end

APAS.

The participation of parents in the APAS also lacks

sufficient effectiveness

There are also parents who voluntarily

choose not to belong to that body for many

reasons.

Parents believe that the members of the Board of Directors of an APA usually, when less, controlled and

directed by the professors of the

Centre.

For teachers, the APAS have little relevance, are perceived as

something alien and parallel to the

dynamics of the school.

APAS.A possible way of solution might be to grant greater autonomy to centers, but taking into account to achieve a greater degree of autonomy is not to provide to the centres more and more functions, if not in enable centres to

develop functions that already have, which is enough, according to contextual characteristics and to their real needs.

Therefore, the purpose of a participatory school should

be:

Enter the life at school and at the same time school

life, providing rational

explanation of all educational

events.

Blaming each sector participating in the education of

the student regarding their

obligations to this.

EDUCATIVE COMMUNITIES.

Learning it is not only teacher’s task, education quality depends on families’ effort, volunteering…

Is transformation project directed to the achievement of school dropout and conflict elimination. It’s project consist on the creation of interactive groups that learns through dialogue.

equal education in the information society where so many families are in different conditions.

PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATIVE COMMUNITIES.Creation of a

learning organization and

atmosphere. Alternative ways to

open more possibilities of

learning.

Participation of families, pupils and community.

Teaching – learning

processes are the centre of the

school.

All the people implied have high

expectations.

Learning has purposes: It is organised and it

has goals in common with all the community.

Equal education.

Working self-esteem

Continue and systematic

assessment Leadership is

shared.

PRECEDENTS.

They are the result of many investigations and educative practices.1. School Development Program. Yale. 19682. Accelerated Schools. 1986 Stanford.3. Success for All 1987.Baltimore.  In Spain it was developed in 1978 in

Barcelona, a centre called La Verneda de Sant Martí. This was built when the neighbours vindicated the creation of a cultural centre.

THEORICAL FRAME

Paulo Freire, one of the most important pedagogues wanted a dialogue in education, not only between teachers and pupils, but between all the educative community.

Habermas developed a theory about communicative competence in which he stated that all people have communication skills. Also it exist cooperative skills.

 

For a dialogue learning the following principles must be done

1) Equal dialogue where anybody can give their opinion, and not imposing anyone’s

2) Cultural Intelligence, that involves all the interactions of humanity

3) Transformation because dialogue learning transform relationships between people.

4) Dialogue learning includes all the aspects that can be learnt.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF SCHOOLS IN LEARNING COMMUNITIES

PHASES OF TRANSFORMATION

awareness

decision making

sensibility

• 90% of the faculty must be in favor of carrying out the project• Agreement of the management team of the school

• Approval by the school board• Approval majority in the assembly organized by the AFA

(Association of Relatives)

• Decision of the Directorate-General to provide the center of maximum autonomy

DREAM PRIORITIES

WORKING COMMITTE

ES

Transform the school and its social context

toward the utopia of equal

educational project

INTERACTIVE GROUPS

Interactive groups are a flexible way of organizing educational work in the classroom. The purpose of these is to improve

learning through interactions established among all participants.This methodology is

achieved encourage peer interaction and enable

teamwork as it is to reach a common goal

from the contributions of each of the group

members.

THE INVOLVEMENT OF FAMILIES

TEACHERS FAMILIES

participation in equal plan on

working committees

TRUE/FALSE1. The Council school Center is actually the only

system of active participation of parents 2. The mentoring to parents is a bad option to

participate in school 3. A possible way of solution in APAS might be to

grant greater autonomy to centers 4. Educative communities project consist on

the creation of interactive groups that learns through speechless

5. Interactive groups are a flexible way of organizing educational work in the classroom.

MULTIPLE CHOICE1. Contributed to the participation of parents

in school:a) LOGSEb) LODEc) Both

2. On the School Council, parents represent:a) A thirdb) A halfc) Both are correct

MULTIPLE CHOICE3. How many members has the APAS ?a) All the parents have to be part of it.b) It is something voluntary, parents can choose.c) The Director chooses all the members.

4. Theorical Frame of Educative communities were inspired by:d) Freinet and Marxe) Freire and Habermasf) Freire and Carl Rogers.

MULTIPLE CHOICE5. What are the two pre-phases in the formation of learning communities ?a) explanation and training sessionb) agreement and approvalc) awareness and decision making