How do you involve parents or guardians in your teaching practice? by EUN Partnership aisbl

Nektarios

nektariosf — 2018-10-29 12:43:42 UTC

Expect the necessary meetings with parents we include them in some other activities during our project implementation such as:
- They help us prepare bake foods or sweets
- They help us when we visit museums or other sited of interest
- They help us in big constructions like painting wall, move heavy staff etc

Lidija, Croatia

lidijaantolic — 2018-10-29 14:12:23 UTC

In autumn parents roast chestnuts for kids. Some parents work and can't come in the morning. Every year I have workshops with children and parents for Christmas and Easter. After school play for Christmas, all the parent and children eat Christmas cookies and drink beverages.

2018-10-29 14:25:21 UTC

with meetings and laboratory works

Ayşe,Turkey

fable_tugcee_90 — 2018-10-29 14:59:32 UTC

we work and talk together weekly and we plan the improvement of the student and what we will do next week. It is so effective.

lara Italy

2018-10-29 15:01:55 UTC

parents envolment is extremely important. We have a meeting each 3 months to discuss the progress

ŞULE / TURKEY

sule_ogrt — 2018-10-29 15:06:04 UTC

I organize activities that parents can attend in class. such as art and storytelling times. they do art activities with children. they sit together and tell the story.

Rosi, Austria

2018-10-29 15:14:34 UTC

We also have activities in our school where parents can attend. We also have this meetings (child-parent-teacher meeting). We have it 2 times a school year. There parents and children can say, what works well in school. BUT they should also say, what could be improved. Parents envolvment is very important!

Sema, TURKEY

2018-10-29 15:17:51 UTC

eally nice things are done when the SEN module is applied.

Helen, Spain

helen119 — 2018-10-29 15:24:40 UTC

I try to involve parents by being as available as possible. Although I have a part-time contract and am only in the school for fifteen hours a week, I try to make myself as available as possible by giving students and their families multiple ways to contact me: website, e-mail, twitter, and instagram. Unfortunately, not many families reach out. I need to start being more proactive and doing the reaching out myself.

Petra, Croatia

2018-10-29 16:32:12 UTC

I try to involve parents in my teaching practice by inviting them to meetings.

We have various workshops and meetings with parents throughout the entire school year but the attendance is always poor...

ana_sudac1 — 2018-10-29 16:42:46 UTC

NI involve my parents and families by sending out a newsletter each month advising them of the activities we are learning and inviting them to come into the classroom at any time to observe what we are learning.

2018-10-29 17:09:29 UTC

I involve my parents and families by sending out a newsletter each month advising them of the activities we are learning and inviting them to come into the classroom at any time to observe what we are learning.

Francesca, Italy

francesca_borghi — 2018-10-29 17:46:32 UTC

We usually have periodical meetings where we share ideas about the students growth. Sometimes we engage parents in special occasions for example for Chistmas school party, end of school party, charity events. In these occasions we (teachers, students and family) collaborate together and it is always positive.

Ayşegül,TURKEY

yavuzcanayse2 — 2018-10-29 17:52:38 UTC

families are the acceptance of the child they want. When they trust, they become more sincere. therefore, special studies should be planned with the parents and they should be provided to see what their children can do.

Tanja, Croatia

2018-10-29 17:53:29 UTC

Involve parents by organizing a day of open doors with physical experiments, 3D printing and programming, and classrooom activities are visible to parents in the OneNote virtual classroom

Carmen, Romania

2018-10-29 17:53:56 UTC

We must help each child’s network of support become stronger and more knowledgeable about available school and community services and supports. Family members and other caregivers need accurate, timely, and clear information in order to navigate our complex education, health care, and social service systems. “Just in time” information in formats that families can access when needed will help families make informed decisions and participate as co-equal members of educational teams from “cradle to careers.”

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-29 18:05:48 UTC

Whenever there is need I call the family of the child with difficulty to talk
I explain to the family the progresses or difficulties present and describe them as my teaching takes place.

Jasna, Croatia

vinkovicj — 2018-10-29 18:14:44 UTC

We usually don't. Parents come to group and individual meeting, but they don't participate in teaching practice. Maybe we can include them in some way. I will read the comments and maybe get some ideas.

İSHAK KURT - TURKEY

kurtishak16 — 2018-10-29 18:26:23 UTC

We'il have a parent meeting. We make dinner or tea organizations. We make city trips or cultural events. Congratulations. We visit offices and work offices.

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:29:10 UTC

Nektarios

Caterina Fantini - Italy

cate_67 — 2018-10-29 18:31:21 UTC

We meet parents every time there is a need to help and support children at school. We deal with parents about possible problems of children and we try to go hand in hand with school and family,. Unfortunately not all parents of SEN children collaborate and agree to compare and work with us teachers.

Abdullah, Turkey

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:31:54 UTC

We organize special day events with families. We organize activities such as excursions, picnics. When there is a problem, we organize family visits. We overcome problems with families. We frequently discuss private tutoring with parent meetings and private interviews.

Jasna, Croatia

2018-10-29 18:31:56 UTC

In my school parents are involved only superficially. They come and talk to me but they are not very interested in their child's learning. Sometimes they think it is just school that should educate their child and sometimes they were SEN students themselves

Abdullah, Turkey

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:33:09 UTC

Petra Kokeza, Croatia

pepy5 — 2018-10-29 18:52:21 UTC

In our school parents not very interested in their childrens work. They come on some meetings but they don't participate in teaching

Anja, Austria

2018-10-29 18:52:48 UTC

It depends- on what kind of parents you have. Some of them are very interessting and I tell them a lot of how I work with the children and give them tips for learning. The other ones are not very intereseted and mostly don't care...

Sandra Leite - Portugal

2018-10-29 18:53:40 UTC

As I have mentioned before, I am an eTwinner teacher and where I ask for many times the collaboration of parents and guardians. I have asked the parents to come and tell stories to the school.

Begoña, Spain

2018-10-29 18:58:21 UTC

Having a look at all my contributions to these forums, I have the feeling that I'm offering some kind of negative image of the Spanish educational system, and I don't like it, but (again) if I have to stop and think about how we get the families involved in the school context. at least in my school, I have to say that they are involved just in 'the papers'. They are informed about the evolution of the students and they have to sign the measures that are going to be taken as regards their children but nothing else.

Maria, Italy

damoramary7 — 2018-10-29 19:17:36 UTC

i have a great communication with parents. We ask about pupils' problems or ways to improve their abilities a lot, at the end of the lessons, with chat, in normal appointment school-family. I like talk with them and create situation in wich there is a strong connection between the things that children do at school and at home.. for example, coding or other games on pc,

Jolanta

2018-10-29 19:24:28 UTC

It depends on a parent. Some parents try to be involved, others believe teachers are enough and they do not have to be involved.
I teach students who are in their late teens or just adult and sometimes parents think their children are old enough to manage on their own.
On the other hand, they are right in 90 per cent.

2018-10-29 19:41:40 UTC

Helen, Spain I try to involve parents by being as available as possible

Ana, Portugal

2018-10-29 19:47:20 UTC

I try to involve parents by being as available as possible, they can talk to me all day and anyway, by email, phone or at school. Then I show them the works of their children, photographs of their activities, so I try to give them some joy and motivation.

Monica, Italy

2018-10-29 20:14:10 UTC

I have always tried to involve parents in my teaching practice, gaining their trust and showing consistency between the commitments undertaken and effectively maintained. Also I always try to create a psychological glue for the good of what I share with them: the children themselves.

Zita, Lithuania

2018-10-29 20:20:28 UTC

We have common meetings in kindergarten with parents from whole institucion, where we share ideas, we tell them what is new and ect, the we have meetings with parents from certain group, where we discuss how we will use new techniques in that group, we say what we want from them, what we expect. And finally, we have individual meetings with triangle princip - teacher (or specialist), parent and a child. There we discus what individual plan we made for a child, we advise how they can be helpful, we ask certain questions about child, about his behaviour and mood, problems and emotions.
However, all this depends from parents, if they want to be involved or no.

Nertila, Albania

nertilamucka — 2018-10-29 20:27:04 UTC

I think, the success for parent involvement is communication, especially for parents of the SEN pupils. They should know the progress of the child almost every day and so they will continue to reinforce at home what has begun to be built in the classroom.

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

2018-10-29 21:23:59 UTC

I teach music in secondary education in Greece. I try to make pupils and parents share some kind of musical experience. For example, when I teach Greek traditional music I suggest the pupils that they should discuss with their parents about the Greek traditional music of the past (where, when and how Greek traditional music was played in the past). I suggest my pupils that they should ask their parents about the music they like or the music they listened to when they were adolescences. When I teach about a Greek composer of the past, I suggest the pupils that they should talk their parents about this composer (the fame of this composer in the past, possible experience of their parents about this composer, for example if their parents have attended a concert of this composer).
It is noteworthy that the majority of parents are not very willing to come to school every now and then in secondary education in Greece, therefore I have chosen this way of involving parents/guardians in my teaching practice, as thus it is not necessary for parents /guardians to come to school every now and then.

Doinita B., Romania

2018-10-29 21:40:15 UTC

Like students, parents are of different kinds: some are concerned about everything that happens with their child at school and they continue at home what started at school, but others, for various reasons, show little interest in children's events at school. The good part is that pupils with special educational needs are those who enjoy collaborative parents.

Emine Yüksek/ Turkey

2018-10-29 22:23:19 UTC

Families participate in general family participation activities at the school , mostly on out-of-school trips.

Mirjana, Croatia

2018-10-29 22:45:47 UTC

I have good cooperation with my sen student's parents. We talk about problems, possible solutions to make the  student's progress. Other students parents are included in our project activities (E Twinning and others). At the parent's meeting we agreed that parents would come to the classroom once a week and read the stories.

Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia

rljubica_78 — 2018-10-29 23:36:31 UTC

I have good cooperation and communication with most of the parents regardless if it's a SEN student or normal once. We have regular meetings with parents to talk and discuss students progress (I have a visiting day once a week when I am available for meetings, open days once a month and group teacher-parent meetings every quarter).I try to build positive relationships with students and parents by being open and talking about different things (not only school related issues) and try to find out about the family situation and background. In our school we also try to involve parents in different school activities (plays/shows, exhibitions, field trips and visits to places, workshops for holidays etc.).

Parents involvement in this process help to achieve good results and harmony in this relationship. Mutual relation and consideration, teacher-family and vice-versa, assure the effectiveness of this process.

2018-10-30 03:06:45 UTC

Barış ,Turkey

2018-10-30 04:27:57 UTC

We did’nt have any activity except for regular meetings and home visits. I have to do some new activities with parents.Now I ‘ve decided to have breakfast with the parents. They can make cookies from the letters which they learn.

Vincenzo M. Italy

2018-10-30 08:21:46 UTC

It is always necessary to involve the parents, in the moment in which they also gain their trust everything becomes easy. But the fundamental point is sharing.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

2018-10-30 09:12:41 UTC

For me, involving parents in every day teaching is fundamental. Parents should feel free to come and ask about ways they can help their child. We have to be open to communicate with them even spending some time from our free time.

Eleni, Greece

2018-10-30 09:56:36 UTC

Involving parents in the school is beneficial for everybody. Parents can feel proud for their children and find new ways to help them. Teachers come closer with their pupils when they learn how is their life after school. And the children feel acceptable from the environment and proud for their achievements. That's why we try to be in touch with the parents organizing meetings in order to help the children to improve their skills.

Dajana,Croatia

dajanajelavic — 2018-10-30 10:24:58 UTC

It is very important for parents to be involved in their child's education.They know their children best and can help teachers a lot.

yavuzyildiz69 — 2018-10-30 12:00:02 UTC

I try to involve parents by being as available as possible

Yavuz, Turkey

yavuzyildiz69 — 2018-10-30 12:05:16 UTC

Parents are indispensable in education. I think it will be effective for students who need special education to invite their families to school, have one-on-one interviews, engage them in activities in class, celebrate children's special days in class with their families, organize trips, make picnics and make projects that involve their families.

Marco, Germany

2018-10-30 12:39:37 UTC

Parents are hardly ever involved in my teaching practice. If there are problems concerning the process of learning and/or discipline I meet the parents for parent-teacher talks and we sign mutual agreements with regard to how to improve the situation of the student that requires this kind of attention.

Géraldine, France

mrsmazue — 2018-10-30 13:59:57 UTC

In my school it is very difficult to involve parents. Most of them had trouble when they were pupils and feel reluctant to come to school. Most of them are not at ease with school as they were not good pupils.Thus it is very difficult to work with them and to have them getting implied in their children's studies. And on the other way some parents are very distrustful towards school and they stand against our proposals .

Maddalena Farruggia (Italy)

2018-10-30 14:00:35 UTC

Parents need to be involved in order to help children learn many things in many areas and school subjects, within the limits of their abilities and possibilities.

Michela, Italy

2018-10-30 15:28:50 UTC

My school holds orientation sessions and meetings between parents, specialists and teachers to support SEN students' families.

HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY

mavimavi2316 — 2018-10-30 16:06:24 UTC

İt's always necesery. Parents are indispensable in educatıon...

Lisa, Flanders

2018-10-30 16:10:11 UTC

It's not often done in higher education... maybe it should be.

Ioanna grerce

2018-10-30 16:20:08 UTC

Ioanna greece

2018-10-30 16:22:41 UTC

Parents should be a part of the educational design. Parents know their child better than anyone and can give you precious information. I talk to parents about what we are going to do during school year and I ask for their views and their help to teach the child in the same way

Alessandra Amideo,

2018-10-30 16:28:06 UTC

ITALY

I often involve parents in educational practice. I give them psychological advice, practical on how to approach with children. I agree an educational and study strategy to be continued at home. I believe a lot in the good practices of counseling.

Svetlana, Serbia

2018-10-30 16:52:27 UTC

There is a Team of parents in school who is involved in making decisions, and parent is part of Tema for making inclusive plan for particular student.

I often meet parents to agree with them on the educational modalities that can be useful for the individual children. In my teach experience i used the flipped classroom. This approac for answer at the modern needs. The needs to make the school time more functional and ptoductive for the teachinge-learning process. In this case teacher and pupil investing the hours of lesson in solving the most complex problems. The students producing elaborations maybe in a group and in peer to peer mode in a assisted laboratory context.

2018-10-30 17:01:53 UTC

Sara, Mexico

2018-10-30 17:23:12 UTC

As I mentioned before I work at university level. In this context is usually that parents are not actively involve in the students activities. The only time I remember I have contact with a parent was when we had a SEN students. She could wolk so her father was with her, outside the classroom, to hel pher mon¿ve from one classroom to another. it was a shame that the father was not involved with school activities. It was a shame that we as teacher did not care.

Parental Involvement.

2018-10-30 17:26:20 UTC

I involve parents in some of the school based activities.

Chris, Malta

Violeta, Romania

violeta_crst — 2018-10-30 17:31:31 UTC

Some parents are involved in schools activities, but not very often. However i organise every month meetings with parents, i give them advices about how to deal with some situations and i speak with them very often on the phone.

Serdal, Turkey

2018-10-30 17:46:27 UTC

It is very hard to involve parents to educational environment. But this video offers very useful examples to involve them to educational environment. I will apply this methods to involve parents to the educational enviroment

Marija Huzjak-SAban, Croatia

mhsaban — 2018-10-30 17:59:09 UTC

In my school there is a great chance of involving parents in our common goal, to teach SEN children. Sometimes they participate, sometimes they don’t. I think it is very important to engage parents because their children are very happy and motivated when they see somebody really cares for their success. All students must be good at something and parents are those who can let us know that and who can direct our teaching towards getting better results. Our parents are included in all important activities taking place at our school.

Angelica P., Italy

angy_prof2012 — 2018-10-30 18:08:11 UTC

It is very hard to involve parents to educational environment. But it is very useful to involve them, so in my school we organize every month meetings with parents, we give them advices and show our plans and decide together how to deal with some situations. In my school there is a great chance of involving parents in our common goal, but sometimes they don’t participate. I think it is very collaboration with parents because their sons are very happy and motivated when they their parents cares for their success.

Şule Eşgi Turkey

2018-10-30 18:13:36 UTC

I'm school guidance and psychological teacher.
I have frequent meetings with the parents of children who receive special education.
They need psychological support.
What can we do? Spoken.
Support training activities are monitored.

Sabrina, Austria

2018-10-30 18:33:07 UTC

We have in our school fix days of parent teacher meetings for a teachers and all parents. Additionally every teacher has an hour per week offering the parents to come.

Zeynep Konya Turkey

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-30 18:35:30 UTC

Families' approach to students is not very relevant. This is because I think of the student's status as unacceptable. I believe that it will be a more efficient learning environment by adding families to the activities.

José María, Spain

2018-10-30 18:44:02 UTC

In these cases of SEN, communication with parents is frequent. In other cases with children with special behaviors, interviews and communications with them are also frequent - even more so. It really is a very good help and we try that the children get involved in curricular andextracurricular activities of good coexistence with other children.
By the way, the idea of minicelebraciones of Donal seems great to me! Thank you!

Rosa, Italy

2018-10-30 18:53:41 UTC

I think that collaboration is at the base of the whole course of teaching-learning. Opening doors to the family means helping not only the child but the whole community.

Annamaria, Italia

annam_ronchetti — 2018-10-30 19:07:28 UTC

We often involve parents in parent-teachers meetings. They are very useful.
Sometimes you have to face with parents' no acceptance of their sons and it's difficult to have them engaged.

DERYA TURKEY

skynett98 — 2018-10-30 19:33:01 UTC

WE ARRANGE HOME VISITINGS.IT IS HELPFUL

Hana, Croatia

2018-10-30 20:42:27 UTC

Collaboration with the parents is a daily and regularly informing them about the progress of their child. Parental role is important because they are the ones who spend most of their time with their children and know best how they function in everyday activities. That knowledge they convey to me. Likewise, I help parents to give them advice on how to work at home with the aim of acquiring new knowledge and skills.

ALEV KAPAN -T

2018-10-31 06:05:19 UTC

Melek Göksu

2018-10-31 08:12:07 UTC

We do family visits. We observe how parents approach SEN students in their home environment. We do routing

Emin, Turkey

2018-10-31 09:28:47 UTC

We usually make meeting with parents and we visit to parents

Stanley,Nigeria

2018-10-31 10:08:17 UTC

Parental involvement is a vital part of our school programme. Apart from rubbing minds on the way forward in any learning challenge.Sometimes they serve as resource persons. Their input is also sort in various aspects of class and school organization.

Kristian, Croatia

2018-10-31 10:11:12 UTC

I think it is necessary to collaborate with parents on a daily basis when they come to pick up their child from school. Among this, maybe it could help make a "open day" on which parents can visit their child during the class.

Snjezana Kovacevic

knjiznica_zlata — 2018-10-31 10:11:38 UTC

I involve them in projects, workshops, some activities, we invite them to school on lectures, have meetings.

Rajka, Croatia

2018-10-31 10:16:16 UTC

In our school ther is still room for progres in relation parents - school an cooperation.
Expert team is link between parents and teachers. We have meetings with: parents, parents - students, parents - student - teacher, or parents-teacher.

Tulin/Turkey

2018-10-31 12:43:10 UTC

Natalia, Italy

2018-10-31 14:03:12 UTC

We must look at the parents and the environment of the children's home as a resource, thus gathering information that had hitherto been obscured by prejudices. The role of parents is a mutual exchange of relief and help for teachers

Marijana, Croatia

2018-10-31 14:33:51 UTC

I gave the parents of the children my mobile phone number and said that they can call whenever they don't understand something that happened in the school and that I expect that they call when something went wrong or right. Parents stick to the deal mostly and sometimes parent call even at 8 pm (happened once and it was justified). I'm trying to understand that they are not only parents, they also have job and other obligations. I respect their time, they respect mine.

Anita, Croatia

anita_simac — 2018-10-31 14:41:37 UTC

By advocating open discussion, cooperation and involvement through workshops, projects and parent evenings. One lesson a week I have an open door policy for parents to come and discuss any issues or concerns they may have.

Konstantina, Greece

konstantinakokmotou — 2018-10-31 15:57:41 UTC

We have meetings once a month and telephone communication through school.

Franesca N.,Italy

2018-10-31 16:37:55 UTC

Usually parents are involved in some of the homework. For instance, pupils have to ask for an adult's help to seek for some materials or a school project.
Some parents can come to schools trips as well.

Claudya, Romania

claudia_neacsa — 2018-10-31 16:37:56 UTC

Actually, we try to involve parents in all our activities, but there are only a few interested..

Lorenza, Italy

2018-10-31 17:13:42 UTC

Parents are involved in periodical meetings with all the staff (general and SEN teachers, doctors, educators, social assistants) to monitor the learning and socialising process of the pupil.

Sara, Italy

saradiberardino_sdb — 2018-10-31 17:19:33 UTC

Parents are involved especially at the beginning of the school year in a meeting with sen teacher, the general teachers, the psychologist, etc, but I think that we should involve them in a different way in order to obtain more and better results from their collaboration.

Tatiana,Romania

tatianasilvesan72 — 2018-10-31 17:36:26 UTC

We have regular meetings to discuss students' evolution.We have activities that parents also attend, such as school days, Christmas, end of school yearIn these activities we collaborate with teachers, students and family.

Maria Jacinto, Portugal

luisad741 — 2018-10-31 18:15:15 UTC

I am a general teacher and as I am in middle high school I don't usually meet with parents directly, but I send them information about school activities and progress through the class teacher who is in touch with them. Sometimes when parents go regularly to school we end up knowing them and talk to them informaly.

Hakan,Turkey

bekenbolu — 2018-10-31 18:31:33 UTC

For general teachers we have official parental meetings one in each term which is mandatory to join. Besides these meetings parents come to school when there is a problem.

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-31 19:51:31 UTC

In the Italian school there are official meetings with parents or guardians two or three times a year and two official meetings for SEN parents ‘ students with doctors and teachers. There are no official activities organised by the school to improve parents active commitments in order to reinforce and complement their children’s work. I believe that this is a very important focus on which the stakeholders should reflect if we do really want to improve our response to the needs of each student, with or without special educational needs.

Alma,Lithuania

2018-10-31 20:30:53 UTC

Alma,Lithuania

abidve — 2018-10-31 20:50:44 UTC

I have individual consultations to SEN students parents 2 hours a wee

Parent-teacher meetings.

2018-10-31 22:51:17 UTC

Athina, Gree

aginoudi — 2018-10-31 23:00:52 UTC

We organize meetings with the parents, events with invited speakers and other celebrations. We involve also parents in the organization of the events, so that they could feel happy with their involvement in the school life.

Ida. Italy

2018-11-01 10:20:31 UTC

We have regular meetings with parents. Sometimes we promote activity in which they are involved together with the students.

Franca, Italy

2018-11-01 10:47:05 UTC

_{20 years ago, when I began teaching it was very different from now. Recently teachers have understood they have to change and we are opening school to parents: for example through open days to show our practices and tools to new parents. But I don't think teachers are required to chat on Wathsup with parents, there is a limit to openess. On the contrary letting parents come to read to the children or making music for them if they are able to can be a fair way to create a relationship with families, and children too. And that is what I do.}

Katjusa. Italy

2018-11-01 10:51:51 UTC

We hold regular meetings. I personally am in touch with parents via email. We also invite parents to every event /celebration we hold as a school

Majlinda,Albania

anikapana — 2018-11-01 12:23:41 UTC

I try to be as collaborative with parents as I can.
Firstly, I often organize meetings with them, where I give them the possibility to express their thoughts regarding to the teaching. Secondly, I often try to involve them in different projects and activities. This way they will get involved and have the possibility to help their children better.
I often ask parents to think about and organize activities such as celebrations or birthday parties. This will encourage the collaboration between them and school . At the same time this collaboration is the best model for children.

Darija, Croatia

2018-11-01 14:28:47 UTC

Our parents are severely involved in the educational environment. Parents have the opportunity to come to school and talk to each teacher about their child, but they rarely do; are not interested in learning a child, they only appear at school when a problem arises. Mostly a professional service is the relationship between parents and teachers. This video shows very useful examples of how parents engage in the educational environment.

Adelio, Portugal

2018-11-01 14:31:47 UTC

In our school we work hand in hand with the parents, otherwise it would be impossible to work. As I said before they often attend mettings with all the teachers of his son, and are very present during the education of their kids.

Simona, Italy

2018-11-01 15:33:13 UTC

I try (and sometimes I struggle) to be open minded and positive towards any parents, not only the most collaborative and friendly ones. We teachers try to meet parents any time they need and every time we speak positively about their children, revealing them talents that they hadn't seen. I think that parents could be more involved especially regarding our main goals, such as inclusion, building good relationships, respect, developing self-esteem, because they most often worry just about curricular success and evaluation. I have been very well impressed by Mr. O'Reilly's idea of involving parents in a reading activity with their children at home on a regular basis. I have always suggested to read aloud for their children in the first year of primary school, but I'd never thought of suggesting reading together even when children could do that by themselves. I think that even other activities could be suggested to be done by parents and children together, like taking pictures, painting, buildind something or cooking.

Jessica, United States

2018-11-01 16:26:00 UTC

I provide weekly/biweekly newsletters, invite parents into my classroom, go into the community to interact with students and parents.

Serenella Silenzi, Macerata, Italy

2018-11-01 16:34:38 UTC

Donal O'Reilly has said a very basic truth: our educational action will be much more effective with parental commitment because education continues at home. As a matter of fact nowadays in Italy Law mandated parental involvement. Therefore even the learning pathway of the children is the fruit of an agreement with their families; they come (sometimes with a family specialist), debate the needs and wants of their kids and finally sign a formal educational pact. Then we meet them like the other families, but we are always ready to contact or be contacted. We should organize more occasions to meet (teas, coffees, celebrations, etc.) but it is not very easy and families seem to be busier and busier.

The main problems occur when they do not accept the fact that their children have special needs or when they ask for an extremely different treatment which is miles away from true education.

Tania, Italy

tania_vagnoli — 2018-11-01 16:52:53 UTC

I totally agree with D. O'Reilly when he says that education continues at home and so our action can be more effective only with parental commitment. We try every day to improve the relationship with parents and to involve them in school activities but sometimes it's quite difficult. In Italy, for SEN students, law mandates parental involvement and, in fact, each individual learning plan is suggested by the teachers but it must be discussed and approved by the student's parents and there are a few formal meetings during the school year to verify the efficacy of this educational pact. Anyway, parents can contact teachers whenever they need but families' responses to our requests of collaboration are quite varied. There are parents who want to be involved and take all the opportunities to be in contact with the teachers and, above all, they trust teachers and so we are able to form a sort of team and we generally obtain good results. On the other hand, there are parents who seem not to accept their child has to utilize
special programmes. They come to school only if requested (and not always) and they often criticize teachers' approach. With this parents is very difficult to find a dialogue and when the students realize that there isn't trust and collaboration between their parents and their teachers they too are often less motivated and cooperative.

Clara Cristino, Portugal

clara_cristino — 2018-11-01 16:52:54 UTC

Parents are usually summoned either for evaluation feedback or for punishment purposes because of behaviour problems. School has for some time put parents aside by asking them to come to school only by invitation. So parents don't feel welcome, to start with. Of course teachers have to create moments to invite parents in, sometimes as observers, sometimes as actors. The simplest way is by having sudents involved in learning. This alone will make parents feel curious and comfortable to come to school.

Anna Chiara, Italy

2018-11-01 17:09:11 UTC

Over the years I've experienced how parents have become increasingly disattentive towards their children's schooling. They hide their disengagement under the idea that they have to work and don't have time to come to school and speak about their children's behaviour and progress if there is any. Due to the longrunning economic crisis parents feel teachers belong to a privileged social class, they don't have to strive for their income so they don't care about teachers' suggestions and advice. They come to school only if their children have problems with the teachers. We should establish a more cooperative relationship with parents attracting them with more celebrations and involvement in the school events.

George, Greece

2018-11-01 17:20:48 UTC

In my school it is very difficult to involve parents. They don;t feel comfortable talking with us for the problems of their children and they don’t trust the education system. We didn’t have any activity except for regular meetings . In my experience, it is very important to involve in some way the parents because that address problems earlier and help us choose the strategies that could make our teaching more inclusive. On the other hand, we know that students must feel that all the important adults in their life (parents and teachers) collaborate and care about them. That make them fell safe and motivate them.

Federica from Italy

2018-11-01 17:25:05 UTC

I want involve parents or guardians opening classroms in many ways as possible. I communicate with them, hoping to aime at the same goal: the flourishment of their child.

Angelica, Italy

2018-11-01 17:25:23 UTC

Donatella Passiatore, Italy

2018-11-01 18:25:19 UTC

I teach Design and History of Art in a high school. I have nine classes to follow for two hours a week and I often propose workshops to the wings such as: interpreting some paintings live by impersonating the characters, involving assistants, tutors and special teachers in the classes where students with special needs are inserted. The enthusiasm and the collaborative spirit that accompanies this teaching facilitates both the inclusion in the class group and the learning of the history of art.

Annabella Tamburrini Trieste

decanushc — 2018-11-01 19:53:44 UTC

In the school where I teach families are really important in the educational work we daily do; I often like saying that Sauro school is an excellent school thanks to the parents of our students: they are our flagship! In fact, families actively participate in many projects that we do and they are a fundamental resource for our school, not only for their collaboration, but also for the practices they do at school with us, for the time they dedicate us, the money that they give us when the state doesn’t spend its poor economic resources! I am aware that my school is a virtuous example of collaboration between school and families: this is very rare and, in any case, always to take care with balance.

Saša Špoljarić, Croatia

2018-11-01 20:10:02 UTC

There are some parents who would like to get involved in classes. These parents present their work and their skills. They are working together with their children. They are included in various celebrations. They come to events and sports competitions. They are involved in various extracurricular activities: collecting paper, plastic, batteries, household, sewing, sports ..

Sofia. Italia

emmaros — 2018-11-01 21:23:48 UTC

unfortunatly our parents' students are so involved in our learning process and scarcely attends our meetings. This of course reflects their children's problems and their lack of motivation.

Kasia, Poland

2018-11-01 22:10:47 UTC

we are doing our best to get involved parents. Sometimes they don't want to be. Some parents are really amazing - in my class we are so lucky :-) I do my best, so that's why parents are with us.

We have meetings, events, workshops, www, FB groups, journeys and so on. It looks good enought

Isabel Nunes, Portugal

isanchesnunes — 2018-11-01 23:07:04 UTC

In my school we carry out various activities involving the involvement of families, both in identifying the problems of students and in classroom activities through story telling and in training sessions.
The relationship between the family and the school becomes essential, when the problem of Special Educational Needs is equated, however, it must surely change at the most varied level (attitudes, beliefs, strategies, practices) as a process of change, a real challenge.
As a teacher, who believes in this relationship, I will gradually have the tendency to enrich and diversify my practices; feeling more secure and probably more available to establish a collaborative work.

Elisabete, portugal

2018-11-01 23:28:44 UTC

I think, at my school, we try to create a family-friendly environment, and family are usually welcome. Still, they usually only go to school if they are more or less formally asked to be present at meetings, mainly with the psychologist, the tutor teacher or the SEN teacher.

As for opening the classroom to parents, although teachers may sometimes do it, many do not feel like it. It may also happen that though parents may be invited, quite a few do not feel like going to school that willinglyand even less like participating in the lessons.
But I think we are still far from really involving parents in school life.
Here go just a few ideas so as to promote a better communication between parents and school.

Martina, Croatia

martina_trescec — 2018-11-02 05:59:45 UTC

In our school parents usually come on parents meeting. Some homework include parents so they are involved in school. Parents have opportunity to talk with teachers, and some of them do that. But, some parents come to school only if there is somekind of problem.

Dina, Verona, Italy

2018-11-02 06:44:30 UTC

Before writing my thoughts, I carefully read many other comments. In particular the comments of Italian teachers. I did this to understand if my feeling about parental involvement in school life in general and that of individual children is similar to that of other teachers. I have noticed that many, Italians and other countries, live the same difficulties that I live. Families with little motivation, little confidence in teachers, families who struggle very hard to accept the difficulties of their children. The thing that I hear most often from parents is that we teachers report the difficulties of their children just to have an extra certification and to have an extra teacher support. That is, we report the difficulties of the children only for our personal interest. In particular, in my school, we see how non-Italian speaking families do not trust our assessments and try in every way to avoid confrontation, do not come to interviews and do not bring their children to evaluation when we recommend it. There are many years later when the difficulties became evident and time was lost.
The thing that I'm most sorry for is seeing the lack of trust in the teacher's role. When I tell the parents of my students that I am also a psychologist and specialized in learning disorders, then they listen to me with more attention, they give me confidence and follow our instructions.
I am very available to listen to parents. First, however, we must find a common platform. And if I believe that the child has a difficulty and the parents say that he is only a little immature and lazy and lazy, it is difficult to start the collaboration.
In short, as already said in the previous modules, the school must reappropriate social credibility and then, probably, families would arrive with a different attitude of listening and collaboration. And from there you can start together. Of course there are a lot of families who are VERY COLLABORATIVE.
To improve the state of things, what to do? First of all, be able to communicate clearly, precisely and authoritatively what you think and bring objective elements to support your ideas. One thing certainly can be done. Improve the ability to MANAGE AN INTERVIEW FROM THE TEACHERS. I see that very often the interview can become a comparison of opposite judgments between parents and teachers. Instead the teacher must remain on a plan of objectivity, to describe and not to judge. Then the parent becomes more available to listen.
Secondly, every school should equip itself with a psychologist specialized in learning difficulties, a figure that can help families understand and support their child and improve family and school collaboration.

Catherine Dourmousi Greece

2018-11-02 07:21:14 UTC

We organise meetings with parents in order to inform them about what we do, when a common decision has to be made, or to inform them about the progress of their child. We sometimes call them , as usually parents are too busy to come, so as to tell them about a significant thing that we believe they need to know, for example a sudden change in the kid's performance , or behavior. We invite parents to attend a number of events we organise.

Sanja, Croatia

2018-11-02 07:53:18 UTC

In the begging of the school year when we write our plans and learning outcomes parents come to school to see and talk with teachers and specialists. These meetings occur during the school year to follow the progress of students or to talk about problems we encounter. Some of the parents are willing to work but some are not or they think everything is all right and they don't fuss about it as teachers do

Silvia- ItalyParents are involved in our teaching practice first of all because laws 170/2010 and 140/92 advocate a dynamic commitment of teachers and families in the filling of PDP and PEI respectively. A team including parents, teachers, medical professionals and educators is supposed to take part in the planning of educational and learning activities over the short-medium and long term.This is the theory. In practice, when interpersonal relations are positive, this is the start of a mutually helpful relationship; when they are not, bureaucratic documents are the beginning and the end of the work. Luckily, in my experience, families are generally interested and take actively part in their kids educational curriculum.

silvia_coletto68 — 2018-11-02 08:33:16 UTC

Petra, Croatia

2018-11-02 09:01:28 UTC

My school involve parents in the great measure. Teachers have monthly meetings with all parents, talking about children's needs, behaviors, learning styles and provide parents with useful tips how to reach their goals at home. Also, teachers talk with parents about children functioning at home so they can get larger picture and better understanding of their pupils.

Mirela, Croatia

Miroza — 2018-11-02 09:39:43 UTC

This aspect of collaboration is lacking in my school. No meetings with the school pedagogue, the principal or any other school employee with the parents. They do not get information from us, we do not get information from them.

Renata. Lithuania.

aiduke — 2018-11-02 09:54:00 UTC

My pupils like colored mandala, we invite parents do it together with the children. Kids are very happy with coloring with beasts.

Maria Rosa (Sicily)

maryroseprof — 2018-11-02 10:54:38 UTC

In a secondary school it is more difficult to involve parents in educational activities. We meet parents at the beginning of the year to decide together the PDP (Piano Didattico Personalizzato ) or the PEI (Piano Educativo Personalizzato) in this way they are invited to collaborate to do the best for their children.Sometimes parents don’t want to recognize some problems his son or her daughter has and this case it is a big problem to struggle with, because school can do much without the help of families.

Giusi Ridulfo Italy

g_ridulfo2 — 2018-11-02 10:59:09 UTC

I am a primary school teacher and the age range is between three and six years old The children are very young and the challenges of the general teacher and special education are: the inclusion of those with special educational needs in the ordinary school and the management of the lack of support from some of their parents who may be disinterested in the well-being of their children, or do not accept the fact that they may have problems of this kind that do not provide them with adequate care. Alternatively, they could be overly protective. Both can be problematic for the child and their teacher.

I'm a teacher in primary school with children between three and six years, They are very young and work with them is challenge. The biggest challenge of the general teacher and special education is the inclusion of children with SEN in the ordinary school.

2018-11-02 11:47:37 UTC

Patrizia, Italy

2018-11-02 11:47:42 UTC

The involvement of parents in the life of the school is more and more problematic.
The parents chat all day, about school problems on WhatsApp, specially against teachers.During meetings with parents, the behavior problems of the students are the main topic. Sometimes, I'm afraid to talk to some parents: they could have a violent behavior towards me.

Sam UK/UAE

2018-11-02 12:07:23 UTC

Working in an IB PYP school, there is a high level of importance given to parental involvement. Over the academic year, the parents are invited to parent, student, teacher conferences. The first conference is called a 3-way conference and the final conference of the year is called a student-led conference. It is amazing to see all the 4-5 year old students (regardless of differences) confidently guiding their parents / families around the classroom, explaining different activities and sharing their portfolio of work from the whole year. Parents are also invited to celebrations for the different units of work covered - such as Family Day and a special class performance to celebrate 'Expressing themselves through the Arts.' Weekly newsletters share work and make suggestions about extending the children's interests through home learning activities. As much as possible, I have always maintained channels so that parents can contact me regularly. If and when needed, extra meetings are set up to support the child's needs. Some families are more open to their child needing additional support and are willing to get assessments and work with specialists. Other parents need support and encouragement to recognise that their child may need some additional support. Often these parents are worried about labels being attached - they need to know that everyone works as part of a team to provide the best possible resource for their child. All of this takes time. A building of a trusting relationship / partnership between home and school is so important in being successful for each and every student.

Sven, Croatia

2018-11-02 12:19:03 UTC

It is harder to work with parents then with children with SEN.

Martina, Croatia

2018-11-02 15:04:37 UTC

It is difficult to involve parents in because a lot of them don't even want to come when we ask or when they need to come because their child is not doing good or have some difficulty. Some of the parents are unpleasant and think that the teachers are guilty if their child gets a bad rating.

It is not simple to deal with parents of SEN students and students in general.Sometimes they don't accept the fact that their child may have some problems or if they are aware of they don't think it is so serious not to be solved. Others,on the contrary,are always present in the school life.Anyway many of them are always convinced you are not doing all your best for their children.

2018-11-02 17:17:52 UTC

Jelena, Croatia

jelena_erf — 2018-11-02 17:37:24 UTC

I have a few parents which are disinterested in development of their children so they don't come on parental meetings or individual talking. I have to send them official letter or I have to contact social services. They don't understand and they don't want to understand a real needs of their children. On the other side, a few parents are amazing-they are always in contact or include in workshops (for birthdays, christmas, easter...). They are trying to inform me about + or - changes. And we are trying to teach each other how to include their children in community.

Bernarda, Slovenia

bernarda_boznar — 2018-11-02 18:02:08 UTC

Students have to make an intervju with parents or grandparents on specific topic (eg. waste management in household, celebrating holidays in the past).
At the end of hosting foreign students we invite parents to school and students present what they learnt together and we have a celebrati

Silvia, Italy

2018-11-02 18:53:50 UTC

I have worked in three different primary schools, and for what I could see there isn't much involvement of the parents, they had the opportunity to meet teachers every two months, but most of them are not much interested to be involved in school things - is so difficult building a positive collaboration between parents and teachers.

Irena, Croatia

2018-11-02 19:23:46 UTC

My parents make a small group, they are all connected and friendly. We make out teacher parents meetings like little celebrations, with sodas and cakes. Children are always there.

Dijana, Croatia

2018-11-02 19:43:25 UTC

When I reflect on my teaching in the past, I realize that I used to be pretty strict and I stuck to the rules . Nowadays I am much more easy going and tolerant toward both children and parents. I am aware that the atmosphere and environment whre chiuldren learn and live are more important that all the content and material that we try to teach them. I collaborate well with my parents since I understand their worries and problems related to children since I am a parent too. We have meetings during which we tackle all the important and real life problems.When both sides are being honest and supportive, nothing seems impossible.

Nurullah Kaya, Turkey

gulortmen — 2018-11-02 20:42:38 UTC

we have official parental meetings one in each term which is mandatory to join for general teachers . Besides these meetings parents come to school when there is a problem or we do family visits. We observe how parents approach SEN students in their home environment. We do routing for them.

Giovanna,Italy

2018-11-02 21:18:27 UTC

parents envolment is extremely important
Sometimes we promote activity in which they are involved together with the students.

sylvie

2018-11-02 21:51:33 UTC

It is very difficult to involve some parents in their children's studies because they simply do not care. They recognize the limitations of their children and consider that they will not be able to reach their goals like the others.

However, on the contrary, some oh them make a lot of efforts to ensure that their children with educational needs have an education adapted to their potential and collaborate with the school.

I think that the way to involve parents in school activities and children's learning is to meet with parents regularly, organize events with families, establish an effective way of communicating, for example via email, ask parents help to solve certain problems. So parents will feel involved and an active part of the school.

Emine YÜKSEK/TURKEY

2018-11-02 22:56:30 UTC

We'il have dinner at school. We often exchange information about the child's development. The family participates in extracurricular activities and in the participation of the general family in the classroom. At intervals, we examine the school activities with the family.

tea sisko, croatia

tejasisko01 — 2018-11-03 06:26:00 UTC

I try to be open and easily accessible to the parents, talk with them on a daily basis, decide what strategies and topics we will cover in the next week and talk about the social inclusion of sen students.It sometimes works well but sometimes it doesn't

Miriam, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2018-11-03 08:26:22 UTC

In my school family partecipate in activities.

Antonella P

avenusitita — 2018-11-03 08:51:48 UTC

In my school, there are regular meetings with SEN parents but often only the SEN teacher participates. There aren't other activities to involve parents maybe because it is a secondary school. However, there are a lot of DSA students and with other special educational needs who are not supported by their families. I noticed that often parents don't know what to to do to help their children and It will be very useful if the school could organise regular meetings with them and all the classroom teachers and also with professionals as psychologists, educators and so on.

Giuseppe, Italy

profgiuseppevullo — 2018-11-03 09:55:54 UTC

The involvement of parents in the life of the school is important: we have to make an alliance that demonstrates that the center of our commitment is the well-being of children. I think that the impression of unity between parents and teachers contributes to the growth of the educational motivation of the students.

Senka, Croatia

2018-11-03 09:57:48 UTC

We try to get them involved in all kinds of events and we ask for their help, and the parents participate in amount that they can or want. Some that are not that interested in their child's progress or lack of it are called to meetings by official letter. Once a week every teacher has to have special time when any parent can come and talk to them about their concerns. Personally, I give my phone number to some of them…which soon spreads around...they have my e-mail address as well...and I try to incorporate in my teaching what I can to help their children learn better.

Yiota, Greece

YiotaKouf — 2018-11-03 15:02:24 UTC

Students who face difficulties usually have a notebook on which we write what their homework is and we communicate with their parents in the form of brief messages. If need be, we talk via the phone to add more immediacy to our contact.

Jana, Croatia

2018-11-03 15:11:09 UTC

I often write notes to parents if they need to do something with their kids. But mostly all work is being done in class

Dragica, Serbia

2018-11-03 15:25:45 UTC

There are parental meetings where parents are involved. According to the education program, this meetings are organized 4 times a year or if a problem arises. Unfortunately, we do not have the practice to meet in order to celebrate something with our parents. I consider this to be such a good idea, which I saw in the video of Mr. O Reilly. In addition, parents have the opportunity to talk to any teacher they need to, once a week. Of course, when necessary and more often. Beside that, each parent can call the school and ask about their child. I think teachers in our school are working hard to involve parents. Sometimes this is very successful, sometimes not. We need to highlight more positive things, I thinks it would be fruitful for the collaboration with parents.

Lucija, Croatia

2018-11-03 15:53:06 UTC

I often talk to parents and ask questions about what their child likes, how does he or she learn at home, what makes her or him angry, what she or he does not like. Furthermore, I inform them how she or he learns at school. By exchanging experiences, discussing and making conclusions, we harmonize work at school and work at home.

Paola T .

torniai_paola — 2018-11-03 16:24:53 UTC

In my country parents and guardians are involved in education program (ex l.170/2010)

Marzena, Poland

marzenkamazurek — 2018-11-03 17:15:46 UTC

Parents are a very important potential in my work and I am happy to use it. I talk with them about their expectation and needs and I talk them about mine and their child. We cooperate. I prepare some materials as a homework, I explain parent what to do and how, than I check the children sheets f.ex. Durin our meeting we talk about stron sides of their child, I organize various events with parents - f. ex. The Christmas Day, theatrical workshops, we make christmas ornaments together and so on. I have meeting with them regulary once a month, but I invite them every twoo weeks. We talk by phone and via Internet every time we need. I have good contact with them and I know that is the best way to support my students. I am open on their suggestion and they are too.

Sema,Turkey

2018-11-03 17:37:03 UTC

We organize meetings with the parents three times a term but the teachers also have visiting hours for parents every week. Teachers are trying to get involve with the parents in the educational process but sometimes it is really difficult to communicate and act together with parents
rather than SEN students.

Christos, Greece

christos_chachoudis — 2018-11-03 18:56:16 UTC

In the school I work it is very crucial to have the students' parents engaged ( involved is not enough). We meet the at the beginning of the school year, we invite them in every school event( we make a lot ), every class has a teacher who is responsible to contact the students of the class, every teacher has a timetable when the parents can meet him/her, we have a communication notebook where the parents inform the teachers about things that concern the student and the teacher write to inform parents about the student's homework, behavior etc. We make many meetings with the parents ( until now we have made 3 already) and we try to give all the possible support and information to the parents. The truth is that they are not all very collaborative but we try to do our best

Cristine ,Italy

2018-11-03 19:16:44 UTC

Family involvement is fundamental ,
Working in the sme direction is the key to success-

2018-11-03 19:29:54 UTC

Cristine ,Italy Cristine ,Italy Family involvement is fundamental , Working in the sme direction is the key to success- thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Christos, Greece Christos, Greece In the school I work it is very crucial to have the students' parents engaged ( involved is not enough). We meet the at the beginning of the school year, we invite them in every school event( we make a lot ), every class has a teacher who is responsible to contact the students of the class, every teacher has a timetable when the parents can meet him/her, we have a communication notebook where the parents inform the teachers about things that concern the student and the teacher write to inform parents about the student's homework, behavior etc. We make many meetings with the parents ( until now we have made 3 already) and we try to give all the possible support and information to the parents. The truth is that they are not all very collaborative but we try to do our best thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar I believe the experience and evolution of the role and the relationship of the parents and the school described by O'Reilly may bring some hope to you and your school! Graça Sema,Turkey Sema,Turkey We organize meetings with the parents three times a term but the teachers also have visiting hours for parents every week. Teachers are trying to get involve with the parents in the educational process but sometimes it is really difficult to communicate and act together with parents rather than SEN students. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Marzena, Poland Marzena, Poland Parents are a very important potential in my work and I am happy to use it. I talk with them about their expectation and needs and I talk them about mine and their child. We cooperate. I prepare some materials as a homework, I explain parent what to do and how, than I check the children sheets f.ex. Durin our meeting we talk about stron sides of their child, I organize various events with parents - f. ex. The Christmas Day, theatrical workshops, we make christmas ornaments together and so on. I have meeting with them regulary once a month, but I invite them every twoo weeks. We talk by phone and via Internet every time we need. I have good contact with them and I know that is the best way to support my students. I am open on their suggestion and they are too. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Paola T . Paola T . In my country parents and guardians are involved in education program (ex l.170/2010) thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Lucija, Croatia Lucija, Croatia I often talk to parents and ask questions about what their child likes, how does he or she learn at home, what makes her or him angry, what she or he does not like. Furthermore, I inform them how she or he learns at school. By exchanging experiences, discussing and making conclusions, we harmonize work at school and work at home. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Definitely a good example to follow, especially because the benefits may be obvious for all parts invovled. Graça Dragica, Serbia Dragica, Serbia There are parental meetings where parents are involved. According to the education program, this meetings are organized 4 times a year or if a problem arises. Unfortunately, we do not have the practice to meet in order to celebrate something with our parents. I consider this to be such a good idea, which I saw in the video of Mr. O Reilly. In addition, parents have the opportunity to talk to any teacher they need to, once a week. Of course, when necessary and more often. Beside that, each parent can call the school and ask about their child. I think teachers in our school are working hard to involve parents. Sometimes this is very successful, sometimes not. We need to highlight more positive things, I thinks it would be fruitful for the collaboration with parents. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jana, Croatia Jana, Croatia I often write notes to parents if they need to do something with their kids. But mostly all work is being done in class thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Yiota, Greece Yiota, Greece Students who face difficulties usually have a notebook on which we write what their homework is and we communicate with their parents in the form of brief messages. If need be, we talk via the phone to add more immediacy to our contact. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Senka, Croatia Senka, Croatia We try to get them involved in all kinds of events and we ask for their help, and the parents participate in amount that they can or want. Some that are not that interested in their child's progress or lack of it are called to meetings by official letter. Once a week every teacher has to have special time when any parent can come and talk to them about their concerns. Personally, I give my phone number to some of them…which soon spreads around...they have my e-mail address as well...and I try to incorporate in my teaching what I can to help their children learn better. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 3h Dragica, Serbia - I find it very good practice to give to the parents our phone number. The older teachers in our school do not want to do it because they feel it's not right to be disturbed in their spare time. But I think it is necessary that parents can contact us whenever they need it. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Giuseppe, Italy Giuseppe, Italy The involvement of parents in the life of the school is important: we have to make an alliance that demonstrates that the center of our commitment is the well-being of children. I think that the impression of unity between parents and teachers contributes to the growth of the educational motivation of the students. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Miriam, Italy Miriam, Italy In my school family partecipate in activities. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário tea sisko, croatia tea sisko, croatia I try to be open and easily accessible to the parents, talk with them on a daily basis, decide what strategies and topics we will cover in the next week and talk about the social inclusion of sen students.It sometimes works well but sometimes it doesn't thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Emine YÜKSEK/TURKEY Emine YÜKSEK/TURKEY We'il have dinner at school. We often exchange information about the child's development. The family participates in extracurricular activities and in the participation of the general family in the classroom. At intervals, we examine the school activities with the family. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Antonella P Antonella P In my school, there are regular meetings with SEN parents but often only the SEN teacher participates. There aren't other activities to involve parents maybe because it is a secondary school. However, there are a lot of DSA students and with other special educational needs who are not supported by their families. I noticed that often parents don't know what to to do to help their children and It will be very useful if the school could organise regular meetings with them and all the classroom teachers and also with professionals as psychologists, educators and so on. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário sylvie sylvie It is very difficult to involve some parents in their children's studies because they simply do not care. They recognize the limitations of their children and consider that they will not be able to reach their goals like the others. However, on the contrary, some oh them make a lot of efforts to ensure that their children with educational needs have an education adapted to their potential and collaborate with the school. I think that the way to involve parents in school activities and children's learning is to meet with parents regularly, organize events with families, establish an effective way of communicating, for example via email, ask parents help to solve certain problems. So parents will feel involved and an active part of the school. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Giovanna,Italy Giovanna,Italy parents envolment is extremely important Sometimes we promote activity in which they are involved together with the students. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Nurullah Kaya, Turkey Nurullah Kaya, Turkey we have official parental meetings one in each term which is mandatory to join for general teachers . Besides these meetings parents come to school when there is a problem or we do family visits. We observe how parents approach SEN students in their home environment. We do routing for them. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Dijana, Croatia Dijana, Croatia When I reflect on my teaching in the past, I realize that I used to be pretty strict and I stuck to the rules . Nowadays I am much more easy going and tolerant toward both children and parents. I am aware that the atmosphere and environment whre chiuldren learn and live are more important that all the content and material that we try to teach them. I collaborate well with my parents since I understand their worries and problems related to children since I am a parent too. We have meetings during which we tackle all the important and real life problems.When both sides are being honest and supportive, nothing seems impossible. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Irena, Croatia Irena, Croatia My parents make a small group, they are all connected and friendly. We make out teacher parents meetings like little celebrations, with sodas and cakes. Children are always there. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Silvia, Italy Silvia, Italy I have worked in three different primary schools, and for what I could see there isn't much involvement of the parents, they had the opportunity to meet teachers every two months, but most of them are not much interested to be involved in school things - is so difficult building a positive collaboration between parents and teachers. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Bernarda, Slovenia Bernarda, Slovenia Students have to make an intervju with parents or grandparents on specific topic (eg. waste management in household, celebrating holidays in the past). At the end of hosting foreign students we invite parents to school and students present what they learnt together and we have a celebrati thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 3h Dragica, Serbia - great practice, great idea! Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jelena, Croatia Jelena, Croatia I have a few parents which are disinterested in development of their children so they don't come on parental meetings or individual talking. I have to send them official letter or I have to contact social services. They don't understand and they don't want to understand a real needs of their children. On the other side, a few parents are amazing-they are always in contact or include in workshops (for birthdays, christmas, easter...). They are trying to inform me about + or - changes. And we are trying to teach each other how to include their children in community. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário It is not simple to deal with parents of SEN students and students in general.Sometimes they don't accept the fact that their child may have some problems or if they are aware of they don't think it is so serious not to be solved. Others,on the contrary,are always present in the school life.Anyway many of them are always convinced you are not doing all your best for their children. It is not simple to deal with parents of SEN students and students in general.Sometimes they don't accept the fact that their child may have some problems or if they are aware of they don't think it is so serious not to be solved. Others,on the contrary,are always present in the school life.Anyway many of them are always convinced you are not doing all your best for their children. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Martina, Croatia Martina, Croatia It is difficult to involve parents in because a lot of them don't even want to come when we ask or when they need to come because their child is not doing good or have some difficulty. Some of the parents are unpleasant and think that the teachers are guilty if their child gets a bad rating. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 3h Dragica, Serbia - I agree. That s why we need to educate our students parents. Certainly this is not easy, but as Mr. O Reilly said in small steps towards the goal. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sven, Croatia Sven, Croatia It is harder to work with parents then with children with SEN. thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Sometimes - yes it is :( Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sam UK/UAE Sam UK/UAE Working in an IB PYP school, there is a high level of importance given to parental involvement. Over the academic year, the parents are invited to parent, student, teacher conferences. The first conference is called a 3-way conference and the final conference of the year is called a student-led conference. It is amazing to see all the 4-5 year old students (regardless of differences) confidently guiding their parents / families around the classroom, explaining different activities and sharing their portfolio of work from the whole year. Parents are also invited to celebrations for the different units of work covered - such as Family Day and a special class performance to celebrate 'Expressing themselves through the Arts.' Weekly newsletters share work and make suggestions about extending the children's interests through home learning activities. As much as possible, I have always maintained channels so that parents can contact me regularly. If and when needed, extra meetings are set up to support the child's needs. Some families are more open to their child needing additional support and are willing to get assessments and work with specialists. Other parents need support and encouragement to recognise that their child may need some additional support. Often these parents are worried about labels being attached - they need to know that everyone works as part of a team to provide the best possible resource for their child. All of this takes time. A building of a trusting relationship / partnership between home and school is so important in being successful for each and every student. thumb_up 4 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Patrizia, Italy Patrizia, Italy The involvement of parents in the life of the school is more and more problematic. The parents chat all day, about school problems on WhatsApp, specially against teachers.During meetings with parents, the behavior problems of the students are the main topic. Sometimes, I'm afraid to talk to some parents: they could have a violent behavior towards me. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário I'm a teacher in primary school with children between three and six years, They are very young and work with them is challenge. The biggest challenge of the general teacher and special education is the inclusion of children with SEN in the ordinary school. I'm a teacher in primary school with children between three and six years, They are very young and work with them is challenge. The biggest challenge of the general teacher and special education is the inclusion of children with SEN in the ordinary school. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Giusi Ridulfo Italy Giusi Ridulfo Italy I am a primary school teacher and the age range is between three and six years old The children are very young and the challenges of the general teacher and special education are: the inclusion of those with special educational needs in the ordinary school and the management of the lack of support from some of their parents who may be disinterested in the well-being of their children, or do not accept the fact that they may have problems of this kind that do not provide them with adequate care. Alternatively, they could be overly protective. Both can be problematic for the child and their teacher. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Maria Rosa (Sicily) Maria Rosa (Sicily) In a secondary school it is more difficult to involve parents in educational activities. We meet parents at the beginning of the year to decide together the PDP (Piano Didattico Personalizzato ) or the PEI (Piano Educativo Personalizzato) in this way they are invited to collaborate to do the best for their children.Sometimes parents don’t want to recognize some problems his son or her daughter has and this case it is a big problem to struggle with, because school can do much without the help of families. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Renata. Lithuania. Renata. Lithuania. My pupils like colored mandala, we invite parents do it together with the children. Kids are very happy with coloring with beasts. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Mirela, Croatia Mirela, Croatia This aspect of collaboration is lacking in my school. No meetings with the school pedagogue, the principal or any other school employee with the parents. They do not get information from us, we do not get information from them. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This must be quite hard for all involved. Do you have a school diary which the pupils take home with them and can be used to communicate between school and family? Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Petra, Croatia Petra, Croatia My school involve parents in the great measure. Teachers have monthly meetings with all parents, talking about children's needs, behaviors, learning styles and provide parents with useful tips how to reach their goals at home. Also, teachers talk with parents about children functioning at home so they can get larger picture and better understanding of their pupils. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 1d Sam: This is great Petra. Inviting parents in to share ways in which the children learn and how they can support their Childs learning at home demonstrates great collaboration. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Silvia- ItalyParents are involved in our teaching practice first of all because laws 170/2010 and 140/92 advocate a dynamic commitment of teachers and families in the filling of PDP and PEI respectively. A team including parents, teachers, medical professionals and educators is supposed to take part in the planning of educational and learning activities over the short-medium and long term.This is the theory. In practice, when interpersonal relations are positive, this is the start of a mutually helpful relationship; when they are not, bureaucratic documents are the beginning and the end of the work. Luckily, in my experience, families are generally interested and take actively part in their kids educational curriculum. Silvia- ItalyParents are involved in our teaching practice first of all because laws 170/2010 and 140/92 advocate a dynamic commitment of teachers and families in the filling of PDP and PEI respectively. A team including parents, teachers, medical professionals and educators is supposed to take part in the planning of educational and learning activities over the short-medium and long term.This is the theory. In practice, when interpersonal relations are positive, this is the start of a mutually helpful relationship; when they are not, bureaucratic documents are the beginning and the end of the work. Luckily, in my experience, families are generally interested and take actively part in their kids educational curriculum. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sanja, Croatia Sanja, Croatia In the begging of the school year when we write our plans and learning outcomes parents come to school to see and talk with teachers and specialists. These meetings occur during the school year to follow the progress of students or to talk about problems we encounter. Some of the parents are willing to work but some are not or they think everything is all right and they don't fuss about it as teachers do thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Catherine Dourmousi Greece Catherine Dourmousi Greece We organise meetings with parents in order to inform them about what we do, when a common decision has to be made, or to inform them about the progress of their child. We sometimes call them , as usually parents are too busy to come, so as to tell them about a significant thing that we believe they need to know, for example a sudden change in the kid's performance , or behavior. We invite parents to attend a number of events we organise. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Dina, Verona, Italy Dina, Verona, Italy Before writing my thoughts, I carefully read many other comments. In particular the comments of Italian teachers. I did this to understand if my feeling about parental involvement in school life in general and that of individual children is similar to that of other teachers. I have noticed that many, Italians and other countries, live the same difficulties that I live. Families with little motivation, little confidence in teachers, families who struggle very hard to accept the difficulties of their children. The thing that I hear most often from parents is that we teachers report the difficulties of their children just to have an extra certification and to have an extra teacher support. That is, we report the difficulties of the children only for our personal interest. In particular, in my school, we see how non-Italian speaking families do not trust our assessments and try in every way to avoid confrontation, do not come to interviews and do not bring their children to evaluation when we recommend it. There are many years later when the difficulties became evident and time was lost. The thing that I'm most sorry for is seeing the lack of trust in the teacher's role. When I tell the parents of my students that I am also a psychologist and specialized in learning disorders, then they listen to me with more attention, they give me confidence and follow our instructions. I am very available to listen to parents. First, however, we must find a common platform. And if I believe that the child has a difficulty and the parents say that he is only a little immature and lazy and lazy, it is difficult to start the collaboration. In short, as already said in the previous modules, the school must reappropriate social credibility and then, probably, families would arrive with a different attitude of listening and collaboration. And from there you can start together. Of course there are a lot of families who are VERY COLLABORATIVE. To improve the state of things, what to do? First of all, be able to communicate clearly, precisely and authoritatively what you think and bring objective elements to support your ideas. One thing certainly can be done. Improve the ability to MANAGE AN INTERVIEW FROM THE TEACHERS. I see that very often the interview can become a comparison of opposite judgments between parents and teachers. Instead the teacher must remain on a plan of objectivity, to describe and not to judge. Then the parent becomes more available to listen. Secondly, every school should equip itself with a psychologist specialized in learning difficulties, a figure that can help families understand and support their child and improve family and school collaboration. thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Martina, Croatia Martina, Croatia In our school parents usually come on parents meeting. Some homework include parents so they are involved in school. Parents have opportunity to talk with teachers, and some of them do that. But, some parents come to school only if there is somekind of problem. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Elisabete, portugal Elisabete, portugal I think, at my school, we try to create a family-friendly environment, and family are usually welcome. Still, they usually only go to school if they are more or less formally asked to be present at meetings, mainly with the psychologist, the tutor teacher or the SEN teacher. As for opening the classroom to parents, although teachers may sometimes do it, many do not feel like it. It may also happen that though parents may be invited, quite a few do not feel like going to school that willinglyand even less like participating in the lessons. But I think we are still far from really involving parents in school life. Here go just a few ideas so as to promote a better communication between parents and school. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 1d Sam: Developing a family friendly environment is a great way to involve the parents and show them that their children are at the centre of the school. Having a welcoming environment goes a long way towards helping the parents feel comfortable in being able to approach the school to ask for support. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Isabel Nunes, Portugal Isabel Nunes, Portugal In my school we carry out various activities involving the involvement of families, both in identifying the problems of students and in classroom activities through story telling and in training sessions. The relationship between the family and the school becomes essential, when the problem of Special Educational Needs is equated, however, it must surely change at the most varied level (attitudes, beliefs, strategies, practices) as a process of change, a real challenge. As a teacher, who believes in this relationship, I will gradually have the tendency to enrich and diversify my practices; feeling more secure and probably more available to establish a collaborative work. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Elisabete A 1d You do have very positive experiences at your school, which seem to be working and which we can proit from. I think my school has been trying to do the right thing, too, though I guess a lot remains to be done, of course Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Kasia, Poland Kasia, Poland we are doing our best to get involved parents. Sometimes they don't want to be. Some parents are really amazing - in my class we are so lucky :-) I do my best, so that's why parents are with us. We have meetings, events, workshops, www, FB groups, journeys and so on. It looks good enought thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This sounds as if it is working well:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sofia. Italia Sofia. Italia unfortunatly our parents' students are so involved in our learning process and scarcely attends our meetings. This of course reflects their children's problems and their lack of motivation. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Annabella Tamburrini Trieste Annabella Tamburrini Trieste In the school where I teach families are really important in the educational work we daily do; I often like saying that Sauro school is an excellent school thanks to the parents of our students: they are our flagship! In fact, families actively participate in many projects that we do and they are a fundamental resource for our school, not only for their collaboration, but also for the practices they do at school with us, for the time they dedicate us, the money that they give us when the state doesn’t spend its poor economic resources! I am aware that my school is a virtuous example of collaboration between school and families: this is very rare and, in any case, always to take care with balance. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 1d Sam. It is great to have such a positive and active parent group that is so supportive to the teachers and school community. With parents valuing the school and teachers, the students learning is enhanced and they also recognise the importance of their own education. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Saša Špoljarić, Croatia Saša Špoljarić, Croatia There are some parents who would like to get involved in classes. These parents present their work and their skills. They are working together with their children. They are included in various celebrations. They come to events and sports competitions. They are involved in various extracurricular activities: collecting paper, plastic, batteries, household, sewing, sports .. thumb_up 4 thumb_down 0 2 comentários Elisabete A 1d Great ideas that you have been putting in practice at your school! Congratulations!!! I do think we can get an inspiration from them. Anônimo 10h Senka, Croatia Great way of involving them! Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Donatella Passiatore, Italy Donatella Passiatore, Italy I teach Design and History of Art in a high school. I have nine classes to follow for two hours a week and I often propose workshops to the wings such as: interpreting some paintings live by impersonating the characters, involving assistants, tutors and special teachers in the classes where students with special needs are inserted. The enthusiasm and the collaborative spirit that accompanies this teaching facilitates both the inclusion in the class group and the learning of the history of art. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Federica from Italy Federica from Italy I want involve parents or guardians opening classroms in many ways as possible. I communicate with them, hoping to aime at the same goal: the flourishment of their child. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Angelica, Italy Angelica, Italy thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário George, Greece George, Greece In my school it is very difficult to involve parents. They don;t feel comfortable talking with us for the problems of their children and they don’t trust the education system. We didn’t have any activity except for regular meetings . In my experience, it is very important to involve in some way the parents because that address problems earlier and help us choose the strategies that could make our teaching more inclusive. On the other hand, we know that students must feel that all the important adults in their life (parents and teachers) collaborate and care about them. That make them fell safe and motivate them. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Anna Chiara, Italy Anna Chiara, Italy Over the years I've experienced how parents have become increasingly disattentive towards their children's schooling. They hide their disengagement under the idea that they have to work and don't have time to come to school and speak about their children's behaviour and progress if there is any. Due to the longrunning economic crisis parents feel teachers belong to a privileged social class, they don't have to strive for their income so they don't care about teachers' suggestions and advice. They come to school only if their children have problems with the teachers. We should establish a more cooperative relationship with parents attracting them with more celebrations and involvement in the school events. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Clara Cristino, Portugal Clara Cristino, Portugal Parents are usually summoned either for evaluation feedback or for punishment purposes because of behaviour problems. School has for some time put parents aside by asking them to come to school only by invitation. So parents don't feel welcome, to start with. Of course teachers have to create moments to invite parents in, sometimes as observers, sometimes as actors. The simplest way is by having sudents involved in learning. This alone will make parents feel curious and comfortable to come to school. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Tania, Italy Tania, Italy I totally agree with D. O'Reilly when he says that education continues at home and so our action can be more effective only with parental commitment. We try every day to improve the relationship with parents and to involve them in school activities but sometimes it's quite difficult. In Italy, for SEN students, law mandates parental involvement and, in fact, each individual learning plan is suggested by the teachers but it must be discussed and approved by the student's parents and there are a few formal meetings during the school year to verify the efficacy of this educational pact. Anyway, parents can contact teachers whenever they need but families' responses to our requests of collaboration are quite varied. There are parents who want to be involved and take all the opportunities to be in contact with the teachers and, above all, they trust teachers and so we are able to form a sort of team and we generally obtain good results. On the other hand, there are parents who seem not to accept their child has to utilize special programmes. They come to school only if requested (and not always) and they often criticize teachers' approach. With this parents is very difficult to find a dialogue and when the students realize that there isn't trust and collaboration between their parents and their teachers they too are often less motivated and cooperative. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Serenella Silenzi, Macerata, Italy Serenella Silenzi, Macerata, Italy Donal O'Reilly has said a very basic truth: our educational action will be much more effective with parental commitment because education continues at home. As a matter of fact nowadays in Italy Law mandated parental involvement. Therefore even the learning pathway of the children is the fruit of an agreement with their families; they come (sometimes with a family specialist), debate the needs and wants of their kids and finally sign a formal educational pact. Then we meet them like the other families, but we are always ready to contact or be contacted. We should organize more occasions to meet (teas, coffees, celebrations, etc.) but it is not very easy and families seem to be busier and busier. The main problems occur when they do not accept the fact that their children have special needs or when they ask for an extremely different treatment which is miles away from true education. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jessica, United States Jessica, United States I provide weekly/biweekly newsletters, invite parents into my classroom, go into the community to interact with students and parents. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Newsletters are a great way to communicate:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Simona, Italy Simona, Italy I try (and sometimes I struggle) to be open minded and positive towards any parents, not only the most collaborative and friendly ones. We teachers try to meet parents any time they need and every time we speak positively about their children, revealing them talents that they hadn't seen. I think that parents could be more involved especially regarding our main goals, such as inclusion, building good relationships, respect, developing self-esteem, because they most often worry just about curricular success and evaluation. I have been very well impressed by Mr. O'Reilly's idea of involving parents in a reading activity with their children at home on a regular basis. I have always suggested to read aloud for their children in the first year of primary school, but I'd never thought of suggesting reading together even when children could do that by themselves. I think that even other activities could be suggested to be done by parents and children together, like taking pictures, painting, buildind something or cooking. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Adelio, Portugal Adelio, Portugal In our school we work hand in hand with the parents, otherwise it would be impossible to work. As I said before they often attend mettings with all the teachers of his son, and are very present during the education of their kids. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Darija, Croatia Darija, Croatia Our parents are severely involved in the educational environment. Parents have the opportunity to come to school and talk to each teacher about their child, but they rarely do; are not interested in learning a child, they only appear at school when a problem arises. Mostly a professional service is the relationship between parents and teachers. This video shows very useful examples of how parents engage in the educational environment. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Majlinda,Albania Majlinda,Albania I try to be as collaborative with parents as I can. Firstly, I often organize meetings with them, where I give them the possibility to express their thoughts regarding to the teaching. Secondly, I often try to involve them in different projects and activities. This way they will get involved and have the possibility to help their children better. I often ask parents to think about and organize activities such as celebrations or birthday parties. This will encourage the collaboration between them and school . At the same time this collaboration is the best model for children. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Katjusa. Italy Katjusa. Italy We hold regular meetings. I personally am in touch with parents via email. We also invite parents to every event /celebration we hold as a school thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This sounds really good. Well done:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Franca, Italy Franca, Italy 20 years ago, when I began teaching it was very different from now. Recently teachers have understood they have to change and we are opening school to parents: for example through open days to show our practices and tools to new parents. But I don't think teachers are required to chat on Wathsup with parents, there is a limit to openess. On the contrary letting parents come to read to the children or making music for them if they are able to can be a fair way to create a relationship with families, and children too. And that is what I do. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ida. Italy Ida. Italy We have regular meetings with parents. Sometimes we promote activity in which they are involved together with the students. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Athina, Gree Athina, Gree We organize meetings with the parents, events with invited speakers and other celebrations. We involve also parents in the organization of the events, so that they could feel happy with their involvement in the school life. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Parent-teacher meetings. Parent-teacher meetings. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Alma,Lithuania Alma,Lithuania I have individual consultations to SEN students parents 2 hours a wee thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Alma,Lithuania Alma,Lithuania thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Daniela, Italy Daniela, Italy In the Italian school there are official meetings with parents or guardians two or three times a year and two official meetings for SEN parents ‘ students with doctors and teachers. There are no official activities organised by the school to improve parents active commitments in order to reinforce and complement their children’s work. I believe that this is a very important focus on which the stakeholders should reflect if we do really want to improve our response to the needs of each student, with or without special educational needs. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d I agree - this process is fundamental to success:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Hakan,Turkey Hakan,Turkey For general teachers we have official parental meetings one in each term which is mandatory to join. Besides these meetings parents come to school when there is a problem. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Marija Huzjak-Saban 2d The same situation is in my school in Croatia. We call parents to shool when we see a problem with students Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Maria Jacinto, Portugal Maria Jacinto, Portugal I am a general teacher and as I am in middle high school I don't usually meet with parents directly, but I send them information about school activities and progress through the class teacher who is in touch with them. Sometimes when parents go regularly to school we end up knowing them and talk to them informaly. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Tatiana,Romania Tatiana,Romania We have regular meetings to discuss students' evolution.We have activities that parents also attend, such as school days, Christmas, end of school yearIn these activities we collaborate with teachers, students and family. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sara, Italy Sara, Italy Parents are involved especially at the beginning of the school year in a meeting with sen teacher, the general teachers, the psychologist, etc, but I think that we should involve them in a different way in order to obtain more and better results from their collaboration. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Do you have regular parents evenings throughout the year too? Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Lorenza, Italy Lorenza, Italy Parents are involved in periodical meetings with all the staff (general and SEN teachers, doctors, educators, social assistants) to monitor the learning and socialising process of the pupil. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Franesca N.,Italy Franesca N.,Italy Usually parents are involved in some of the homework. For instance, pupils have to ask for an adult's help to seek for some materials or a school project. Some parents can come to schools trips as well. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Claudya, Romania Claudya, Romania Actually, we try to involve parents in all our activities, but there are only a few interested.. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 3d At least you try .. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Konstantina, Greece Konstantina, Greece We have meetings once a month and telephone communication through school. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This is great:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Anita, Croatia Anita, Croatia By advocating open discussion, cooperation and involvement through workshops, projects and parent evenings. One lesson a week I have an open door policy for parents to come and discuss any issues or concerns they may have. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 3d This sounds really good Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Marijana, Croatia Marijana, Croatia I gave the parents of the children my mobile phone number and said that they can call whenever they don't understand something that happened in the school and that I expect that they call when something went wrong or right. Parents stick to the deal mostly and sometimes parent call even at 8 pm (happened once and it was justified). I'm trying to understand that they are not only parents, they also have job and other obligations. I respect their time, they respect mine. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Natalia, Italy Natalia, Italy We must look at the parents and the environment of the children's home as a resource, thus gathering information that had hitherto been obscured by prejudices. The role of parents is a mutual exchange of relief and help for teachers thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Tulin/Turkey Tulin/Turkey thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Rajka, Croatia Rajka, Croatia In our school ther is still room for progres in relation parents - school an cooperation. Expert team is link between parents and teachers. We have meetings with: parents, parents - students, parents - student - teacher, or parents-teacher. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Snjezana Kovacevic Snjezana Kovacevic I involve them in projects, workshops, some activities, we invite them to school on lectures, have meetings. thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Kristian, Croatia Kristian, Croatia I think it is necessary to collaborate with parents on a daily basis when they come to pick up their child from school. Among this, maybe it could help make a "open day" on which parents can visit their child during the class. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 2 comentários Ruth Sanders 3d Good idea :) Anônimo 3h Dragica, Serbia: Really good idea! I think, I will try it too. We do not have this practice. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Parental involvement is a vital part of our school programme. Apart from rubbing minds on the way forward in any learning challenge.Sometimes they serve as resource persons. Their input is also sort in various aspects of class and school organization. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Emin, Turkey Emin, Turkey We usually make meeting with parents and we visit to parents thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Excellent:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Melek Göksu Melek Göksu We do family visits. We observe how parents approach SEN students in their home environment. We do routing thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário ALEV KAPAN -T ALEV KAPAN -T thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Hana, Croatia Hana, Croatia Collaboration with the parents is a daily and regularly informing them about the progress of their child. Parental role is important because they are the ones who spend most of their time with their children and know best how they function in everyday activities. That knowledge they convey to me. Likewise, I help parents to give them advice on how to work at home with the aim of acquiring new knowledge and skills. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário DERYA TURKEY DERYA TURKEY WE ARRANGE HOME VISITINGS.IT IS HELPFUL thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This is good. we do that too in UK. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Annamaria, Italia Annamaria, Italia We often involve parents in parent-teachers meetings. They are very useful. Sometimes you have to face with parents' no acceptance of their sons and it's difficult to have them engaged. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Rosa, Italy Rosa, Italy I think that collaboration is at the base of the whole course of teaching-learning. Opening doors to the family means helping not only the child but the whole community. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d A holistic approach is key to success:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário José María, Spain José María, Spain In these cases of SEN, communication with parents is frequent. In other cases with children with special behaviors, interviews and communications with them are also frequent - even more so. It really is a very good help and we try that the children get involved in curricular andextracurricular activities of good coexistence with other children. By the way, the idea of minicelebraciones of Donal seems great to me! Thank you! thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Zeynep Konya Turkey Zeynep Konya Turkey Families' approach to students is not very relevant. This is because I think of the student's status as unacceptable. I believe that it will be a more efficient learning environment by adding families to the activities. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sabrina, Austria Sabrina, Austria We have in our school fix days of parent teacher meetings for a teachers and all parents. Additionally every teacher has an hour per week offering the parents to come. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 2 comentários Ruth Sanders 3d This sounds really good Marija Huzjak-Saban 2d In my school, Croatia, we also have one hour per week for meetings with parents. They can come and discuss with us whatever is bothering them. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Şule Eşgi Turkey Şule Eşgi Turkey I'm school guidance and psychological teacher. I have frequent meetings with the parents of children who receive special education. They need psychological support. What can we do? Spoken. Support training activities are monitored. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Angelica P., Italy Angelica P., Italy It is very hard to involve parents to educational environment. But it is very useful to involve them, so in my school we organize every month meetings with parents, we give them advices and show our plans and decide together how to deal with some situations. In my school there is a great chance of involving parents in our common goal, but sometimes they don’t participate. I think it is very collaboration with parents because their sons are very happy and motivated when they their parents cares for their success. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Marija Huzjak-SAban, Croatia Marija Huzjak-SAban, Croatia In my school there is a great chance of involving parents in our common goal, to teach SEN children. Sometimes they participate, sometimes they don’t. I think it is very important to engage parents because their children are very happy and motivated when they see somebody really cares for their success. All students must be good at something and parents are those who can let us know that and who can direct our teaching towards getting better results. Our parents are included in all important activities taking place at our school. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Serdal, Turkey Serdal, Turkey It is very hard to involve parents to educational environment. But this video offers very useful examples to involve them to educational environment. I will apply this methods to involve parents to the educational enviroment thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Violeta, Romania Violeta, Romania Some parents are involved in schools activities, but not very often. However i organise every month meetings with parents, i give them advices about how to deal with some situations and i speak with them very often on the phone. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Keeping the channels of communication open is so important. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Parental Involvement. Parental Involvement. I involve parents in some of the school based activities. Chris, Malta thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sara, Mexico Sara, Mexico As I mentioned before I work at university level. In this context is usually that parents are not actively involve in the students activities. The only time I remember I have contact with a parent was when we had a SEN students. She could wolk so her father was with her, outside the classroom, to hel pher mon¿ve from one classroom to another. it was a shame that the father was not involved with school activities. It was a shame that we as teacher did not care. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário I often meet parents to agree with them on the educational modalities that can be useful for the individual children. In my teach experience i used the flipped classroom. This approac for answer at the modern needs. The needs to make the school time more functional and ptoductive for the teachinge-learning process. In this case teacher and pupil investing the hours of lesson in solving the most complex problems. The students producing elaborations maybe in a group and in peer to peer mode in a assisted laboratory context. I often meet parents to agree with them on the educational modalities that can be useful for the individual children. In my teach experience i used the flipped classroom. This approac for answer at the modern needs. The needs to make the school time more functional and ptoductive for the teachinge-learning process. In this case teacher and pupil investing the hours of lesson in solving the most complex problems. The students producing elaborations maybe in a group and in peer to peer mode in a assisted laboratory context. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Svetlana, Serbia Svetlana, Serbia There is a Team of parents in school who is involved in making decisions, and parent is part of Tema for making inclusive plan for particular student. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I often involve parents in educational practice. I give them psychological advice, practical on how to approach with children. I agree an educational and study strategy to be continued at home. I believe a lot in the good practices of counseling. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ioanna greece Ioanna greece Parents should be a part of the educational design. Parents know their child better than anyone and can give you precious information. I talk to parents about what we are going to do during school year and I ask for their views and their help to teach the child in the same way thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ioanna grerce Ioanna grerce thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Lisa, Flanders Lisa, Flanders It's not often done in higher education... maybe it should be. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY İt's always necesery. Parents are indispensable in educatıon... thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Michela, Italy Michela, Italy My school holds orientation sessions and meetings between parents, specialists and teachers to support SEN students' families. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Maddalena Farruggia (Italy) Maddalena Farruggia (Italy) Parents need to be involved in order to help children learn many things in many areas and school subjects, within the limits of their abilities and possibilities. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Géraldine, France Géraldine, France In my school it is very difficult to involve parents. Most of them had trouble when they were pupils and feel reluctant to come to school. Most of them are not at ease with school as they were not good pupils.Thus it is very difficult to work with them and to have them getting implied in their children's studies. And on the other way some parents are very distrustful towards school and they stand against our proposals . thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This is a challenge we are often faced with isn't it? Gaining the trust of parents is difficult especially if the education system has failed them too. We just have to keep trying.. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Marco, Germany Marco, Germany Parents are hardly ever involved in my teaching practice. If there are problems concerning the process of learning and/or discipline I meet the parents for parent-teacher talks and we sign mutual agreements with regard to how to improve the situation of the student that requires this kind of attention. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Yavuz, Turkey Yavuz, Turkey Parents are indispensable in education. I think it will be effective for students who need special education to invite their families to school, have one-on-one interviews, engage them in activities in class, celebrate children's special days in class with their families, organize trips, make picnics and make projects that involve their families. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário I try to involve parents I try to involve parents by being as available as possible thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Dajana,Croatia Dajana,Croatia It is very important for parents to be involved in their child's education.They know their children best and can help teachers a lot. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d Yes, I find that when the parents support what we are trying to achieve in school we do see an general improvement in the child. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Eleni, Greece Eleni, Greece Involving parents in the school is beneficial for everybody. Parents can feel proud for their children and find new ways to help them. Teachers come closer with their pupils when they learn how is their life after school. And the children feel acceptable from the environment and proud for their achievements. That's why we try to be in touch with the parents organizing meetings in order to help the children to improve their skills. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece For me, involving parents in every day teaching is fundamental. Parents should feel free to come and ask about ways they can help their child. We have to be open to communicate with them even spending some time from our free time. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Marija Huzjak-Saban 2d I totally agree with you Vasiliki. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Vincenzo M. Italy Vincenzo M. Italy It is always necessary to involve the parents, in the moment in which they also gain their trust everything becomes easy. But the fundamental point is sharing. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Barış ,Turkey Barış ,Turkey We did’nt have any activity except for regular meetings and home visits. I have to do some new activities with parents.Now I ‘ve decided to have breakfast with the parents. They can make cookies from the letters which they learn. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Parents involvement in this process help to achieve good results and harmony in this relationship. Mutual relation and consideration, teacher-family and vice-versa, assure the effectiveness of this process. Parents involvement in this process help to achieve good results and harmony in this relationship. Mutual relation and consideration, teacher-family and vice-versa, assure the effectiveness of this process. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia I have good cooperation and communication with most of the parents regardless if it's a SEN student or normal once. We have regular meetings with parents to talk and discuss students progress (I have a visiting day once a week when I am available for meetings, open days once a month and group teacher-parent meetings every quarter).I try to build positive relationships with students and parents by being open and talking about different things (not only school related issues) and try to find out about the family situation and background. In our school we also try to involve parents in different school activities (plays/shows, exhibitions, field trips and visits to places, workshops for holidays etc.). thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Anônimo 1d Sam. I agree. Positive relationships with both the students and the parents / families is so important. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Mirjana, Croatia Mirjana, Croatia I have good cooperation with my sen student's parents. We talk about problems, possible solutions to make the student's progress. Other students parents are included in our project activities (E Twinning and others). At the parent's meeting we agreed that parents would come to the classroom once a week and read the stories. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Emine Yüksek/ Turkey Emine Yüksek/ Turkey Families participate in general family participation activities at the school , mostly on out-of-school trips. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Doinita B., Romania Doinita B., Romania Like students, parents are of different kinds: some are concerned about everything that happens with their child at school and they continue at home what started at school, but others, for various reasons, show little interest in children's events at school. The good part is that pupils with special educational needs are those who enjoy collaborative parents. thumb_up 4 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece I teach music in secondary education in Greece. I try to make pupils and parents share some kind of musical experience. For example, when I teach Greek traditional music I suggest the pupils that they should discuss with their parents about the Greek traditional music of the past (where, when and how Greek traditional music was played in the past). I suggest my pupils that they should ask their parents about the music they like or the music they listened to when they were adolescences. When I teach about a Greek composer of the past, I suggest the pupils that they should talk their parents about this composer (the fame of this composer in the past, possible experience of their parents about this composer, for example if their parents have attended a concert of this composer). It is noteworthy that the majority of parents are not very willing to come to school every now and then in secondary education in Greece, therefore I have chosen this way of involving parents/guardians in my teaching practice, as thus it is not necessary for parents /guardians to come to school every now and then. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Nertila, Albania Nertila, Albania I think, the success for parent involvement is communication, especially for parents of the SEN pupils. They should know the progress of the child almost every day and so they will continue to reinforce at home what has begun to be built in the classroom. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Zita, Lithuania Zita, Lithuania We have common meetings in kindergarten with parents from whole institucion, where we share ideas, we tell them what is new and ect, the we have meetings with parents from certain group, where we discuss how we will use new techniques in that group, we say what we want from them, what we expect. And finally, we have individual meetings with triangle princip - teacher (or specialist), parent and a child. There we discus what individual plan we made for a child, we advise how they can be helpful, we ask certain questions about child, about his behaviour and mood, problems and emotions. However, all this depends from parents, if they want to be involved or no. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Monica, Italy Monica, Italy I have always tried to involve parents in my teaching practice, gaining their trust and showing consistency between the commitments undertaken and effectively maintained. Also I always try to create a psychological glue for the good of what I share with them: the children themselves. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ana, Portugal Ana, Portugal I try to involve parents by being as available as possible, they can talk to me all day and anyway, by email, phone or at school. Then I show them the works of their children, photographs of their activities, so I try to give them some joy and motivation. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Helen, Spain I try to inv Helen, Spain I try to involve parents by being as available as possible thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jolanta Jolanta It depends on a parent. Some parents try to be involved, others believe teachers are enough and they do not have to be involved. I teach students who are in their late teens or just adult and sometimes parents think their children are old enough to manage on their own. On the other hand, they are right in 90 per cent. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Maria, Italy Maria, Italy i have a great communication with parents. We ask about pupils' problems or ways to improve their abilities a lot, at the end of the lessons, with chat, in normal appointment school-family. I like talk with them and create situation in wich there is a strong connection between the things that children do at school and at home.. for example, coding or other games on pc, thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Begoña, Spain Begoña, Spain Having a look at all my contributions to these forums, I have the feeling that I'm offering some kind of negative image of the Spanish educational system, and I don't like it, but (again) if I have to stop and think about how we get the families involved in the school context. at least in my school, I have to say that they are involved just in 'the papers'. They are informed about the evolution of the students and they have to sign the measures that are going to be taken as regards their children but nothing else. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sandra Leite - Portugal Sandra Leite - Portugal As I have mentioned before, I am an eTwinner teacher and where I ask for many times the collaboration of parents and guardians. I have asked the parents to come and tell stories to the school. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Ruth Sanders 1d This sounds like a good idea:) Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ayşegül,TURKEY Ayşegül,TURKEY families are the acceptance of the child they want. When they trust, they become more sincere. therefore, special studies should be planned with the parents and they should be provided to see what their children can do. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Anja, Austria Anja, Austria It depends- on what kind of parents you have. Some of them are very interessting and I tell them a lot of how I work with the children and give them tips for learning. The other ones are not very intereseted and mostly don't care... thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Petra Kokeza, Croatia Petra Kokeza, Croatia In our school parents not very interested in their childrens work. They come on some meetings but they don't participate in teaching thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Abdullah, Turkey Abdullah, Turkey thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Caterina Fantini - Italy Caterina Fantini - Italy We meet parents every time there is a need to help and support children at school. We deal with parents about possible problems of children and we try to go hand in hand with school and family,. Unfortunately not all parents of SEN children collaborate and agree to compare and work with us teachers. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Abdullah, Turkey Abdullah, Turkey We organize special day events with families. We organize activities such as excursions, picnics. When there is a problem, we organize family visits. We overcome problems with families. We frequently discuss private tutoring with parent meetings and private interviews. thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jasna, Croatia Jasna, Croatia In my school parents are involved only superficially. They come and talk to me but they are not very interested in their child's learning. Sometimes they think it is just school that should educate their child and sometimes they were SEN students themselves thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Nektarios Nektarios thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário İSHAK KURT - TURKEY İSHAK KURT - TURKEY We'il have a parent meeting. We make dinner or tea organizations. We make city trips or cultural events. Congratulations. We visit offices and work offices. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Jasna, Croatia Jasna, Croatia We usually don't. Parents come to group and individual meeting, but they don't participate in teaching practice. Maybe we can include them in some way. I will read the comments and maybe get some ideas. thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Daniela, Italy Daniela, Italy Whenever there is need I call the family of the child with difficulty to talk I explain to the family the progresses or difficulties present and describe them as my teaching takes place. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Carmen, Romania Carmen, Romania We must help each child’s network of support become stronger and more knowledgeable about available school and community services and supports. Family members and other caregivers need accurate, timely, and clear information in order to navigate our complex education, health care, and social service systems. “Just in time” information in formats that families can access when needed will help families make informed decisions and participate as co-equal members of educational teams from “cradle to careers.” thumb_up 0 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Tanja, Croatia Tanja, Croatia Involve parents by organizing a day of open doors with physical experiments, 3D printing and programming, and classrooom activities are visible to parents in the OneNote virtual classroom thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Francesca, Italy Francesca, Italy We usually have periodical meetings where we share ideas about the students growth. Sometimes we engage parents in special occasions for example for Chistmas school party, end of school party, charity events. In these occasions we (teachers, students and family) collaborate together and it is always positive. thumb_up 4 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário NI involve my parents and families by sending out a newsletter each month advising them of the activities we are learning and inviting them to come into the classroom at any time to observe what we are learning. NI involve my parents and families by sending out a newsletter each month advising them of the activities we are learning and inviting them to come into the classroom at any time to observe what we are learning. I involve my parents and families by sending out a newsletter each month advising them of the activities we are learning and inviting them to come into the classroom at any time to observe what we are learning. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário We have various workshops and meetings with parents throughout the entire school year but the attendance is always poor... We have various workshops and meetings with parents throughout the entire school year but the attendance is always poor... thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Petra, Croatia Petra, Croatia I try to involve parents in my teaching practice by inviting them to meetings. thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Helen, Spain Helen, Spain I try to involve parents by being as available as possible. Although I have a part-time contract and am only in the school for fifteen hours a week, I try to make myself as available as possible by giving students and their families multiple ways to contact me: website, e-mail, twitter, and instagram. Unfortunately, not many families reach out. I need to start being more proactive and doing the reaching out myself. thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sema, TURKEY Sema, TURKEY eally nice things are done when the SEN module is applied. thumb_up 2 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Rosi, Austria Rosi, Austria We also have activities in our school where parents can attend. We also have this meetings (child-parent-teacher meeting). We have it 2 times a school year. There parents and children can say, what works well in school. BUT they should also say, what could be improved. Parents envolvment is very important! thumb_up 3 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário ŞULE / TURKEY ŞULE / TURKEY I organize activities that parents can attend in class. such as art and storytelling times. they do art activities with children. they sit together and tell the story. thumb_up 5 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário lara Italy lara Italy parents envolment is extremely important. We have a meeting each 3 months to discuss the progress thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 1 comment Petra Kokeza 5d Great Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Ayşe,Turkey Ayşe,Turkey we work and talk together weekly and we plan the improvement of the student and what we will do next week. It is so effective. thumb_up 6 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário with meetings and la with meetings and laboratory works thumb_up 1 thumb_down 0 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Lidija, Croatia Lidija, Croatia In autumn parents roast chestnuts for kids. Some parents work and can't come in the morning. Every year I have workshops with children and parents for Christmas and Easter. After school play for Christmas, all the parent and children eat Christmas cookies and drink beverages. thumb_up 9 thumb_down 0 1 comment Petra Kokeza 5d Great, I like that Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Nektarios Nektarios Expect the necessary meetings with parents we include them in some other activities during our project implementation such as: - They help us prepare bake foods or sweets - They help us when we visit museums or other sited of interest - They help us in big constructions like painting wall, move heavy staff etc thumb_up 5 thumb_down 1 Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Padlet atualizado em outro lugar. ATUALIZAR

Güneş, Turkey

2018-11-03 19:35:59 UTC

Family involvement is really essential in these cases. They need to support the school to improve the abilities of their kids.

Vincenza Rinaldi - Salerno Italy

2018-11-03 19:50:13 UTC

The involvement of families is very important. In Italy there is always an exchange with parents even if often these people are unfortunately not interested in having it because they do not respect school and often do not respect teachers, especially in the most difficult situations from a socio-economic point of view. We often have talks with families, but the presence of parents in the classroom is rarely admitted and only in special cases. What they managed to do in the Irish school is really fantastic.

What is the right measure?

2018-11-03 20:09:42 UTC

As in many of the settings described by my colleagues, meetings with parents are held on a regular basis, while for different puposes. Once a term parents are invited to collect their children’s reports. They can also meet the form teacher weekly to discuss the student’s performance and the evolution of their work. SEN teachers meet parents on monthly basis (more often if necessary).

Parents are necessarily involved in the work and effort developed by the school as a whole, but they are not always directly involved in the teacher’s practice, nor do all of them want to be. Parents are informed on the strategies used by the teachers so as to try and unleash the students’ potential and their collaboration is required so that they understand and support the decisions made with a view of the students’ learning and success. This is a process that needs to be very carefully handled seeing that some parents may be more willing to impose their perpsective of how their children should be educated rather than actually take part in the process. As O’Reilly put it, some parents or guardians expect the school to find solutions to all problems and, if possible, to keep them out of it.

Graça

Dilek,Turkey

2018-11-03 20:32:37 UTC

The role of the families in the school system is very important but not every parent is interested in their child.

Elif/ Turkey

izmireyy1100 — 2018-11-03 21:46:50 UTC

Our main problemin my country is that parents don't accept the situation and unfortunatly some of them accuse the teachers in some cases. Once a term we have parental meeting and I also make a virtual class to keep in touch and make them hear about what is happening in the class.Use edmodo and with smaller classes ClassDojo.

Gönül ,Turkey

eksigonul — 2018-11-03 22:19:11 UTC

In my school family partecipate in activities.

Renata, Croatia

2018-11-03 23:57:27 UTC

In the past generation, parents co-operated. I have organized workshops for children and parents several times a year, informal gatherings with coffee and conversation. I made an class webpage where parents could see what their children were doing at school that day. In this generation, out of 7 parents, only 2 parents attend parental meetings and are interested for children. Unfortunately, some parents did not even meet me. They do not even have a phone. We communicate only through written notices transmitted by the students.
I was thinking of home visits, but students did not like that idea.

Željka, Croatia

2018-11-04 06:01:14 UTC

At beginning of this school year we comunicate and meet with parents to talk about pozitive sides of learning with their children. Most of don't have need to come at parental individual meetings. Also we invite them to school for events such as School Day or Evening mathematics. I hope that progress will occure eventually. Every week they have opportunity to colaborate with me and kinds(weekly hour for parents).

Marija, Croatia

2018-11-04 10:24:49 UTC

I my school, we involved parents in learning process because it's necessary and this way of co-operation is rat for a good communication between parents-teachers-child. We have individual information with teacher and parents and we talk about pupil's progress, what pupil does at home, etc. One per a month we have meeting with parents and teacher.

Ksenija, Croatia

Ksenija — 2018-11-04 12:33:15 UTC

As I said earlier, we'''d be helpess without parental care. They are always there to help, overlooking the progress made and steps taken in that respect. They are very responsive and understanding of our own constraints.

manuela, Italy

manuelabasu — 2018-11-04 13:15:42 UTC

Parents are constantly involved but sometimes their own idea is that teachers are not well trained to cope with sen

Jasna, MacedoniaWe include the parents in the school projects realization.

2018-11-04 13:45:34 UTC

Brigitta, Romania

2018-11-04 14:10:57 UTC

In my class parents are mostly happy to do volunteering with the students and join in on class trips where they can spend time together with the kids. Luckily most of them have a positive approach to shared responsibility in teaching.

Tiziana (Italy)

2018-11-04 14:21:07 UTC

In my school parents are welcome for a number of appointments and events. There are regular parent-teacher meetings twice a year and teachers meet parents who require an appointment on a weekly basis. Some teachers meet parents only twice a month, which, from my point of view, is not enough, especially for those teachers who have many classes and many pupils. I meet from 7 to 10 parents every week by appointment, or I myself may ask to see parents if there are important issues to discuss of (both for didactic or behavioral reasons). The council of teachers meet the parents’ representatives after each teachers’ meeting twice a term, and refer about the class as a whole, their progress, their behavior, their involvement in the lessons, and other issues that may come up during the meeting. But parents are invited to school on other occasions, too. In September, for example, they are invited to school to learn about the school didactic programme and so they are for some conferences, shows, concerts and for a Christmas school market. Moreover, in every class there is a teacher who is in charge of keeping in touch with the families when necessary. Family involvement and collaboration with parents is very important, but as I said in a previous post, sometimes parents’ interventions only aim at judging the teacher’s work, without a real intent to collaborate for their children’s sake. Many parents, especially upper-classes ones, do not trust the teacher and so, instead of building a good collaborative partnership with the teacher, they spoil it all. Which is no good for the kid. Furthermore, many parents seem to be more interested on the teacher’s final evaluation, instead of focusing on their children’s educational process. I agree with Cristine from Italy who says that “working in the same direction is the key to success”, but I would add that trusting the teacher’s work is the first step for that success.

Carmelina, Italy

enrico_alosi — 2018-11-04 14:31:07 UTC

Adriana, Romania

alyna_aly62 — 2018-11-04 15:13:19 UTC

We don,t have common activities, my students are at high school, they don t what their parents in their class, the parents are too busy to came at school so no collaboration. In the future I will try to change the things using those ideas.

Katarina, Croatia

megakaja — 2018-11-04 15:20:51 UTC

Parents are involved in our school educational process. Educators at the beginning of the school year provide information and ideas on how parents can best help the child's learning process. Over the years parents and teachers are following the progress (individual encounters).

Petar, Croatia

2018-11-04 15:28:04 UTC

I am always there for individual meetings and discussion about the possible problems with SEN

Jelena, Croatia

2018-11-04 16:03:33 UTC

Individual meetings, school plays, workshops.. sometimes I invite them to be in my class.

I prepare ativities/projects in which parents have to take part.

prof_saramiranda — 2018-11-04 16:04:59 UTC

Sara Miranda (Portugal)

Hakan D. / Turkey

hakandemir — 2018-11-04 16:22:00 UTC

Since my students are on a heavy level, my parents are often in a room allocated to them in school. I entrust my students to them during breaks. In the meantime, I tell my parents about the situation in the classroom, the progress in their child. The important point in this regard is not to mention the negative behaviors in the classroom (except the exceptions, of course). If we talk about the negativity of the child more than necessary, it decreases the motivation of our parents and it becomes more difficult for us to participate in education. We must be very friendly and positive towards our parents. We should see the good sides of everything (except the exceptions, of course), we must keep the morale of our parents high. All for the good of our SEN students.

Irena, Croati

jirena30 — 2018-11-04 16:24:57 UTC

Tomorrow I have parents meeting and the kids will be involved to. The problem we are encountering is early puberty, lack of interest for learning and homework. I will try to give guidelines how to cooperate, to show excuses I get from students and from parents, and try make them conclude that school is for kids not against them.

Lucica, Romania

birlea_lucia — 2018-11-04 16:39:45 UTC

At our school we have meeting with the parents and students. We discuss about puberty, interest for learning and work at home. When we need to talk individually with parents about the problems that arise.

Greta, Italy

2018-11-04 17:20:55 UTC

I try to communicate with the families as much as I can.

Josipa, Croatia

joboskovic — 2018-11-04 17:22:36 UTC

Parents have monthly meetings with a special educator. Every day we talk to parents about day-to-day activities and achievements and we have workshops with parents.

Zahide/Turkey

sochinza0 — 2018-11-04 18:05:07 UTC

We played garden and mind games with the participation of parents.Parents had a good time with their children and shared somethings with them.
They saw children can learn with the right approach.

emeş, turkey

e_calkam — 2018-11-04 18:35:16 UTC

teachers and school adminstration organizes meetings and share ideas with parents.It creates a positive atmosphere at school

Frățilă Alina

2018-11-04 19:32:53 UTC

The parent of the student with special needs is my partner in education. We are directly involved, we support each other, we work together every day. We have succeeded in advancing together.

Sevda Basar, Turkey

2018-11-04 21:10:58 UTC

Initially, I do organize an ice-breaking meeting with guardians and parents. At this meeting I clearly declare my open door policy. I stress the importance of communication between teacher and parents. I explain my plans and I request their support for more success. Instead of boring formal meetings I organize informal meetings like picnics, celebrations. In special cases I may prefer home-visits for one to one meetings.

Stavroula, Greece

2018-11-04 21:54:46 UTC

As it seems parents are helpful most of the times. I think the idea of weekly meetings in order to discuss the students' activities, needs and impovements is the best. That is a way to keep parents involved, informed and active. That helps both teachers and families as well.

Tamara, Croatia

2018-11-04 22:12:28 UTC

Inclusion of parents is very important. Of course, to the extent that the parent can do it theirself. My problem is that the parents of my SEN students are educatively and socially deprived and often remain at school, professional associates and teachers to enhance both educational and upbringing work with SEN student.

Gordana, Croatia

2018-11-04 22:31:14 UTC

As I have already said, there are regular parent-teacher meetings at least four times a year, and all teachers (all subjects) have one hour per week when the parents can get information about the progress of their child. We communicate a lot more with the parents of SEN students. They should follow the work of their children closely and they should get more information and instructions for work after school, as well as a more detailed feedback. If we have problems with SEN learners at school, we’ve found that sometimes they stem from the parents themselves, as they seem to need some help in terms of guidelines in order to be able to help their own children. So, this parent-teacher communication is vital.

Leonor, Portugal

2018-11-04 22:54:05 UTC

In my school, in general, there is still little involvement and little participation of parents in the dynamics of the school. As a rule, parents attend school on request only.

However, the parents of students with severe disabilities are more interventional and fight for the rights of their children.

I believe that there is still a long way to go at this level.

The participation of the family is very important, however for the students with SEN it facilitates the inclusion.

Gülcan, Turkey

gulcanayazfidan — 2018-11-04 23:57:05 UTC

Sometimes I write to my student's parents, call them, invite them to our school events. I try to explain that we must have the same expectation. If I can reach them, I can understand what our students want and what they can do

Maria, Romania

maria85mirabela — 2018-11-05 08:06:10 UTC

In mi school invite parents in activities

Ana Filipe, Portugal

2018-11-05 09:21:08 UTC

In addition to being a civic duty, the active participation of parents in school structures (parents' association, pedagogical council, general council) is seen by children as a demonstration of commitment and interest, even by older students.

The first meetings, which take place at the beginning of the school year, with the class directors or, often, with the direction, are very important, since the parents are informed not only in what way they can have knowledge of the educational process of their children, but also how the process of representing parents in school structures unfolds.

It is essential that the school and the parents go hand in hand because the "father" will only triumph as a parental figure if he shows his imperfection and, without giving up his convictions, is willing to listen and discuss experiences. While the teacher will only succeed if they effectively listen to their students and share the knowledge.

Thus, we can only educate our children as intervening and critical citizens, if we lead by example.

In my school, parents are invited to many celebrations and positive events (school parties). At least once a year they are invited to training sessions about topics of their interest. And of course, they are invited to individual meetings with teachers to speak about their child.

2018-11-05 12:50:36 UTC

In my school there is a parent's association who frequently comunicate with school direction.

Federica. Italy

2018-11-05 17:40:38 UTC

Parents are constantly involved but the presence of parents in the classroom is rarely admitted and only in special cases

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2018-11-05 19:48:57 UTC

Family is very very helpful

Arzu Taş, Turkey

2018-11-05 20:08:52 UTC

In my school, involving parents in our teaching practice is very important. At the beginning of every school year, a meeting is held to inform the parents about the school's programme and procedures. Then, throughout the year, individual and general parent meetings are held at school to communicate and cooperate with parents. They are invited to many events such as celebrations, open door days, portfolio presentations and trainings. Every week, they are sent a "next week in our school" programme and a detailed message about the activities we do in class. A bulletin is sent every two weeks. Besides, moodle system is used effectively to display the materials used and the student work. The parents of the students who need special help are involved in the planning process. The parent, SEN teacher and the general teacher meet regularly to plan the special program. Also, the parents of the students who need extra help are invited to school to talk about the route to follow.

Belgium

2018-11-05 20:15:36 UTC

In our school the parents are welcome. It's so important to involve the parents with the learning process of their children so they can also support them at home. Sometimes parents really don't know how they can support the special needs of their child at home, so you have to guide them as a teacher. If you work together it will have really a great effect. We involve parents to a lot of things at our school like parent meetings, celebrations, a lot of other school events, sport days... The doors are open for parents. When there is a problem or they need some help they find a way back to the teacher of their child. Not every parent wantsto participate, but we work on it.

Dorota,Poland

2018-11-05 20:54:56 UTC

We always involve parents and usually they support their children. They take part in many therapies and they take the ways of teaching their children at home. Sometime parents don't like our methodes, they say we aren't goo, we give too much homework and it is difficult.

Majlinda,Albania

kmajlinda — 2018-11-05 22:03:35 UTC

We try to involve all the parents in different activities.We organize parent -teacher meetings.We invite them in all the activities their children organize.Once a year we organize open lessons where parents are invited to watch a lesson hour at their childrens' classroom.
Some times we have organized even trainings with them in differents topics.Not all the parents like to participate in these activities.

Daniela, Italy

2018-11-06 03:09:37 UTC

Parents are not involved in school. At the beginning of the year they inform themselves about the difficulties encountered, about the teaching techniques adopted, but then the work the teacher performs only within her class and the cohabitation with the families is limited only to the meetings with the parents programmed by the executive.

Ieva, Lithuania

2018-11-06 06:57:04 UTC

In our school we are trying to involve parents in all kind f activities. We have parents group, we organise meetings with useful specialists and ect. We involve them in maing stuff, helping during trips.

Zeynep, Turkey

2018-11-06 07:19:16 UTC

In our school, we can always communicate with parents. There are periodical meetings with parents of SEN students, the counsellors, the class teachers and the admins. They are aware of what is going on in school.

Miroslav, Croatia

2018-11-06 09:22:05 UTC

Parents or guardians are not that much involved in everyday life in school. Of course, we do have group or individual meetings but this can be much more used in order to better promote student's achievments.
The parents of SEN students are regularly at school, they have close contacts with the classmaster and the students assistant. About once a month the non-teaching stuff (school's pedagogue and psychologist) have a meeting with the parents with severe difficulties to observe progress and give recomendations.
But I have to say that it depends a lot of parents as well. For example, we have two kids with Down syndrome in the same (regular) class. The boys initial potential is a little higher but his mother transfer all responsabilities for his progress to the school and the other professionals. The girls initial potential is a little lower but her parents are very much involved in her progress. They follow the advices for the work at home, they know what her tasks are and actively work with her. The result: the girl achieves better results and she is much better socialised than the boy.

Melike-Turkey

2018-11-06 15:54:14 UTC

We plan monthly meetings. Furthermore in my school every teacher has whatsapp group with their guardians for giving daily information abaout their children.

Isabel Quirino

2018-11-06 21:21:50 UTC

Nothing for us, without us. We should remember these every day

Ceyda DEMİR TURKEY

2018-11-06 21:45:41 UTC

Meeting dinner. I include in class activities. I invite you to school trips. I do a mother-child activity once a year. I'm doing a father-child day event once. I often pass the press about cosmetic development.

Marijana, Croatia

2018-11-07 06:03:57 UTC

We organise gropu and individual meetings with parent. In individual meeting parents can get information about child progress and achievements. In gropup meetinges we organise creative and educative workshops. Parents are invited to come to classroom and to be active, they can bring some ideas for activites. Once a year we have a sport event, we play different sport activites and socialize

Catarina R., Portugal

canrodrigues — 2018-11-07 12:23:43 UTC

Individual and group meetings are organized at least once in each period. Parents are invited to participate in training events and school parties.

Marina, Lithuania

skobarkav — 2018-11-07 15:35:53 UTC

Parents are invited to individual meetings, their child and a head teacher. We analyze their kid's achievement in all spheres, progress of studying, motivation.

Erkan İSTANBUL

2018-11-07 15:43:30 UTC

We organize monthly meetings with the parents of students except this ,I call parents when I need and we check the problems and evaluate the student's role in the process of

Parents partipate since they are invited in the beggining of the school year to talk about their own expectation and worries. During the year we organize meetings. They also help with some resources (ingredients for cooking classes, and others). We often discuss the learning processes, identifying barriers and seeking for new strategies.

2018-11-07 16:28:39 UTC

MELEKTURKEY

2018-11-07 19:53:11 UTC

I invite students to attend classes and some practices by including families when I do a lesson planning.

Ivana, Croatia

2018-11-07 20:17:59 UTC

Parents or guardians are not involve in my teaching practice.
it will be nice to have open day where parents could participate in workshops with children.

irem aksu, Turkey

Merimm — 2018-11-08 07:50:34 UTC

We must prepare a weekly meeting plan with the parents to talk about the student's development. We must meet at least once a week.

Christine, Austria

2018-11-08 08:55:12 UTC

Even in the beginning of the school year I invite all parents to participate. The classrooms door is always open. Participation means in this case to come in to the classroom, spend the time together and watch what happen during one school day. I´m talking about rituals, rules in the classroom, how we live, work and learn together in this community. I create an atmosphere of confidence, openness, enlarge basis for discussions and parents talks.

laura brazzabeni

laura_brazzabeni1 — 2018-11-08 09:43:13 UTC

it is the special teacher who has continuous direct contact with parents. it is sometimes very diffuclt to haave contacts because sometimes parents do not accept the fact that their children have special needs, special curriculum, special Teachers.

Olga M. - Italy

olga_mosca — 2018-11-08 10:22:51 UTC

When the school starts, I ask to meet the SEN parents. It's important for me : I know them, I know their expectation, their goals, how they deal with their child's problem behavior. During the year, meetings can be whenever theachers and parents considere it appropriate, because I think that collaboration and trust beetween parents and teachers is the basis for building a "network " and effective and productive teamwork. At the moment, my way of working has had the consent and appreciation of the parents of the students.

Ola, Poland

2018-11-08 15:35:37 UTC

The situation in my school is not too good. The parents don't even come to parents teacher meeting. We are working on that by making the meeting more pleasurable and to pay attention to the fact that no matter how old the students are (20 or more) parents are still important part of their life

darija_troselj — 2018-11-08 18:25:41 UTC

How do you involve parents or guardians in your teaching practice?

Amber, Turkey

2018-11-08 18:47:51 UTC

In general our school keeps our parents very invovled. There are meetings at the beginning of the year there are parent teacher meeting days at the end of a unit. On top of this there are weekly updates of what was covered in class that week as well as some extra resources that can be used at home. Also there is a message system where the parent or the teacher can directly message each other for important matters.

Ivana B.,

2018-11-08 19:03:56 UTC

Some parents are involved and with them is great to work, to exchange thoughts about their children and to find better ways how to motivate them or how to easier find a method to help them in their work. Some parents are not involved and usually from them we don't have any information about their children. With these parents I would like that they are more involved in education of their children.

Anamaria, Romania

2018-11-08 19:47:39 UTC

Not all parents are involved . I try to cooperate with .

Milijana, Serbia

2018-11-08 22:07:25 UTC

So far, I have had easier forms of SEN students. I regularly informed parents about the progress of their children and about what else should be done.

Andrea Mangiagalli, Italy

mangiagalli — 2018-11-08 23:02:10 UTC

The involvement of parents in school life is really important. As teachers we have to make a strong partnership focusing on our kids' well-being. Giving the students the idea that both parents and teachers row towards the same direction, contributes to the growth of their educational motivation.

Raffaella from Genova, Italy

raffaturbi1 — 2018-11-08 23:13:39 UTC

We don’t engage parents very often because we work with adult students (the majority), but we keep in contact with families of SEN students, especially when they are under 18 or they have particular needs.

We phone them, or keep in touch by email, and we talk with them when necessary, by appointment.

It’s quite hard to handle some parents situations because many times parents think evening course are easier and teachers must promote students easier.

But if their sons don’t pass the tests they can became aggressive and tiresome

rR

2018-11-09 06:20:01 UTC

Rosie, Turkey

2018-11-09 06:20:03 UTC

Communicate with them on a weekly basis. Send messages of any development whether it be little or big. Assign homework that they can do together such as projects/research- depending of the student. Send photos of their child working and interacting with other children if your school policy allows it.

Tessa, Belgium

dejanstessa — 2018-11-09 10:49:16 UTC

We always make sure they are on a meeting when we are talking about SENstudents. We are thinking about getting to know the parents more because we notice that some parents do not come to school.

Nelly, France

neline — 2018-11-09 14:36:39 UTC

Parents have access to the school and classes' working website. Then can see what their children learn at school, what the homework is and contact us when they need. We have parents meetings and often meet them individually if needed.

Marta Tarantino

martatarantino — 2018-11-09 16:19:30 UTC

While watching the video I realized how many ideas can help develop a great educational ecosystem! I really like the tips "focus on the positivity" and "celebrate anything".

Monica, Portugal

2018-11-10 01:20:40 UTC

I realized that I don't engage parents as much as I should. Parents meetings are important, but also individual meetings, family assignments, work with online tools that allow us share resources, ideas, invite parents to visit school... so many ideas, but parents must be seen as allies! Communication on a regular basiss is the key!

BİRGÜL--Turkey

2018-11-10 07:44:13 UTC

We are making meets with guardians for giving information about their children every week and ı invite guardians to schools to play game for inclusive studies.

Muserref-Turkey

2018-11-10 07:44:47 UTC

We are making meets with guardians, for giving information about their children every week

viki dogani

2018-11-10 14:24:39 UTC

I try to involve parents as much as I can

Snjezana, Croatia

shhorvatic — 2018-11-10 16:20:50 UTC

We involve parents or guardians in a way to present them to the support plan at the beginning of the year , and during the school year we work together and monitoring the progress and needs of students.

Susana casanova

susanacasanovapin — 2018-11-10 17:15:07 UTC

Spain
I try to create a special bond with both students and parents/guardians. We have meetings every few weeks to make sure everything is working. In these meeting we evaluate the progress and needs .

Jasenka, Croatia

2018-11-10 19:04:50 UTC

Sadly we don't involve parents in our school teaching practices.

Milka, Croatia

2018-11-10 21:17:46 UTC

Every month, I write report about progress that SEN pupils have made. This report is available to parents but I do not have direct contact with paretns, like special education teachers do.

Yüksel-TURKEY

suheylayuksel15 — 2018-11-10 21:43:23 UTC

I try to involve parents as much as ı can

Maria Calà

2018-11-10 21:53:29 UTC

Parents and teachers who move in the same direction contribute to the growth of their educational motivation.

Silva, Croatia

Kairoscale — 2018-11-11 10:17:00 UTC

Unfortunately, I haven't even met some of my SEN students'parents. We communicate, if we do, through SEN student's form teacher. Parents usually communicate with their child's form teacher and SEN teacher or psychologist. There are also many parents who don't accept the fact that their child has special needs which presents an obstacle in trying to reach the full potential of the child. Without parents'collaboration I dare to say it is almost impossible to make progress with any child, let alone SEN children.

We have a- monthly-plan with our parents. We go to their house to talk about the students situations and also have whatsup group with them for daily connection.

2018-11-11 10:50:48 UTC

Iulia, Romania

2018-11-11 15:43:52 UTC

Parents are not involved in my teaching practice. I have tried, but is very difficult to involve them, because they let the school to "fix" their children.

Camelia

2018-11-11 16:29:15 UTC

It is a problem of involvement and desire.

Annika, Estonia

2018-11-11 17:00:58 UTC

Parents are involved in my classroom teaching. Many have been giving lessons in class. Twice a year, in autumn and spring, there will be development interviews involving the student, his or her parents and the teacher. In the autumn students will set themselves the target for the academic year. In spring, analyzed together, whether the goal was met.

Giorgia Romania

giorgiagroza — 2018-11-11 18:11:31 UTC

In my classroom, the parents are not engange properly. Some of them may help their children to make theri homework, but they are not involved in school life or activities.

i don't teach so i haven' t this problem yet. but i listen that the parents are not engage properly and some of them don;t help the children.

2018-11-11 19:50:15 UTC

I try to involve parents in my class

2018-11-11 19:53:27 UTC

Amelia De Chiara, Italy

amelia_dechiara — 2018-11-11 21:00:09 UTC

We have meetings and contact families everytime it's necessary.
This video is so full of tips. My fave ideas are "celebrate anything" and "focus on positive things".

Barbara, Crot

barbara_hanjilec — 2018-11-11 21:00:21 UTC

I took the time to read what my Croatian colleagues have said and I would just be repeating their words. We are obliged to prepare the plan of teaching and assessing SEN students for their parents to see, but I have rarely met any of them. They almost always just talk to the form teacher, not me.

Liana - ITALY

2018-11-11 21:44:22 UTC

I involve parents by establishing with them a costant dialogue, a reciprocal support and by sharing information and principles of education for the Learning and for the general wellbeing of pupils.

Mert, TURKEY

2018-11-12 10:00:11 UTC

we have a-monthly-plan about meeting and whatsup group with the parents.

Özlem, Turkey ; I involve paretnts by termly meetings and regular phone calls. I tell them what they need to do and check if they have any problems with the process by phone calls or face to face meetings.

2018-11-12 12:23:31 UTC

Ozrenka, Croatia

2018-11-12 14:06:50 UTC

Every month, teachers write a report about progress of SEN students. This report is available to parents and they can come for an individual meeting with teachers. But they usually don't. Actually I don't know any of my SEN students parents which is sad.

Anamarija, Croatia

2018-11-12 16:46:34 UTC

Teachers write monthly programs and reports that parents can see but also they can particapate in making them. They now their child best and can be very helpful but sometimes can prevent us from doing our best and teach their child. We have PTA's that they can come to, SEN students also have notebooks for exchanging information with parents and we communicate via e-mail.

Diana, Romania

steindiana — 2018-11-12 17:56:32 UTC

We have days dedicated to counseling parents, but not all parents consider these meetings to be useful. Parents of the SEN child in my class deal with out-of-school therapies but do not get involved in school recovery at all.

Isabella, Italy

isabellagraziabennardi — 2018-11-12 18:29:54 UTC

In my school parents are involved in difficult moments of their children through talks or ather collaboration form

Ester G. - Italy

estergas89 — 2018-11-12 18:56:31 UTC

Many teachers from Italy have already described the way in which parents are involved in the educational pathway of their SEN children that is, by fixed and dedicated meetings to share the pedagogical project. Usually, SEN teachers have more regular and frequent contacts with parents, while general teachers, like me, generally meet them three or four times a year. I agree with those colleagues affirming that collaboration with parents is not always easy, but we mustn’t forget that sometimes it’s really hard for them to accept their children’s difficulties.

2018-11-12 19:00:44 UTC

How do you involve parents or guardians in your teaching practice?

Funda,Turkey

2018-11-12 19:06:27 UTC

We meet the parents at the beginning of the year and talk about the expectations of the new grade level. Then, every week, we send messages about the week and the activities, materials and differentiated homework to the parents. We have got a Moodle system where parents can reach differentiated materials online and printable worksheets. We meet with the parents at the beginning and at the end of the unit to evaluate the positive things and things to be improved for the next unit. The SEN coordinator and the school principle meet with the parents on a regular basis. We also have a school messaging system where we can message parent or answer their questions faster and easier.

Dubravka, Croatia

dubravka_s — 2018-11-12 20:53:44 UTC

I personally don't have that much of a contact with parents of my students because I'm only an English teacher. Each class has the head teacher of their class who mostly handles the parent teacher conference. I have time set each week when parents can come and see me. Usually it's when a bad grade or some problem happens. When I get the chance to, I share teaching strategies and tools with the parents.

Dubravka,Croatia

2018-11-12 20:59:07 UTC

As a guidance counsellor I am involved in initial conversations with the parents and learning strategies used in preparation for state exams of our secondary education students. We inform them weekly if there are any changes in student engagement, usually by email of mobile phone.

Monika, Croatia

mhorkipavrlisek — 2018-11-12 21:00:17 UTC

I'm not a head teacher but I do have a weekly teacher-parent meetings with the parents who actually want to come to school and talk to me. Unfortunately (or not?, depends on the parents) they don't feel the need to come unless they are invited (and that's usually when a problem occurs.)

Tamara, Croatia

2018-11-12 21:22:06 UTC

I also have a weekly meeting with parents who wish talk to me.

Jelica, Croatia

2018-11-12 21:57:02 UTC

In our school all teachers have a free lesson once a week to meet parents who want to talk to that particular teacher. It's a good practice, but I don't think SEN students' parents come to see me as often as they should.

Atanasija Bilic, Croatia

2018-11-12 22:57:27 UTC

I have weekly PTA meetings with my parents. We write monthly reports involving student progress which every parent of SEN student can read and discuss.

Clara Vitorino - Portugal

clara_vitorino — 2018-11-12 23:07:40 UTC

Unfortunetly in my school we don't have the habit of wellcoming parents. There a few celebrations during the year but we don't call them on a week basis. I think there is a lack of communication and envolvement both ways.

nimet figen türker TÜRKİYE

2018-11-13 07:07:29 UTC

I organize a family participation event every week in my school

Murat BALCI, TURKEY

2018-11-13 08:26:54 UTC

Parental participation in the education of SEN students should be active. Parents should not give up and should apply for pedagogical and psychological support to the school if necessary. Parents of such students must constantly be in contact with their child’s teachers.

Tina, Croatia

2018-11-13 09:11:47 UTC

I have meetings with parents, I send them a tasks, games and tools and they can practice with students at home: They send me feedback

Jayne, Turkey

2018-11-13 10:41:31 UTC

At our school there are regular meetings between parents and and the administration and the SEN teacher. Feedback is then passed on to all the teachers.

Besa Albania

besa_zela — 2018-11-13 10:58:10 UTC

The support teacher of our school and other general teachers try to work with the parent of these children . It is not easy for some reasons , because our school is not very near their homes and their children take bus to come at school.

Giovanna V Italy

2018-11-13 16:18:11 UTC

n my school it is difficult to involve the parents, they come only if convoked for urgent reasons. I would like to put into practice what I learned here.

Josip, Croatia

2018-11-13 18:48:00 UTC

We rarely do. In my school parents are rarely included in teaching matters or figuring out how to deal with some problems we all have. Parents meeting are the only place where parents learn and get information about teaching and problems that we have in our classes.

For example, parents are also assistants sometimes.

2018-11-13 19:47:39 UTC

In my school parents represent a great strength. Sometimesit i difficult to involve them becouse I belong to distant cultural systems.

2018-11-13 19:53:27 UTC

Sibel Yılmaz Turkey

2018-11-13 22:02:21 UTC

Each child is special. These special children can be brought to the upper levels with the help of families.

EZEL TUNA-BURSA/TURKEY

ezeltuna — 2018-11-14 07:45:08 UTC

I am preparing family participation activities by specifying dates according to the training program. The parents of the event bring the activity materials to the class and perform the activity together with the child. I implement projects that will enable families to communicate with their children.

Alessandra, It

2018-11-14 08:50:39 UTC

I receive parents everytime they need and I involve them in the planning of Personal Educative Plan

Dorotea

2018-11-14 09:13:18 UTC

I organized worships for children, parents and teachers together twice o year.

Pınar YILDIRIM TURKEY

2018-11-14 10:43:40 UTC

I organize a family participation event every week in my school

Cristina Pontes (Portugal)

Chrys_13 — 2018-11-14 13:06:29 UTC

In my school, each child is very special. This is why the inclusive education exist. The parents participate in the elaboration of the student's individual plan. We hear them suggestions, them fears. It's very importante. They also need support.

Nicoleta Romania

nicoletamilitar — 2018-11-14 14:29:59 UTC

Parents are always involved. We ask them to come to school and have one-to-one meetings with the general teachers and the support teacher. They discuss important matters for their child. They are also invited to come to lessons and observe what happens

Marina A., Croatia

marina_antolkovic — 2018-11-14 15:25:41 UTC

I work in high school. I rarely see the parents, the conversations with them are usually led by our school psychologist. I don't think that's right. We should all make more effort.

Bondar Gladiola, Borca, Romania

bondargladiola — 2018-11-14 16:18:30 UTC

I meet with the students' parents every week: demonstrative lessons, school holidays, parenting ...

Pixie

2018-11-14 17:34:57 UTC

Meetings, conversation, workshops, newsletters

Fanita Milišić, Hrvatska

2018-11-14 18:54:55 UTC

With parent of SEN student, I talk once a week and through WhatsApp on a daily basis to know what is important in the next day and prepare everything needed for daily activities. It is easier for me to write a message or photograph the material, and it is easier for a parent to follow the instructions. In this way, the parent is 100% engaged in the work. In addition, when a student has a bad day and does not want to write a homework, parent informs me so I avoid the stressful situation at school. With that co-operation, we are all happy.

Maria Antonietta,Italy

mariaantonietta_caravelli — 2018-11-14 19:06:48 UTC

Parents are always up to date with messages written in the diary, in the notebook, with what'app, with regular meetings, we try to get them involved in the organization of projects. Last year I remember with pleasure that they willingly collaborated on the PEACE project etwinning

Bianca, Romania

bianca_igf — 2018-11-14 19:11:21 UTC

At my school, the principal prohibited me, as a teacher-educator, to speak directly to the parents, I have to tell anything and everything I want to communicate, to the class teacher who will tell the parents. All teacher-educatprs are prohibited.

Ros

2018-11-14 20:13:01 UTC

It's necessary to involve parents in teaching and learning practices by frequent meetings

şengül

sengulbaris33 — 2018-11-15 13:16:31 UTC

It is necessary to involve parents in teaching

Ioana Fedeles, Romania

ioana6333 — 2018-11-15 17:29:13 UTC

I keep my parents always up-to-date with the messages written in the journal, in the book, with regular meetings, I try to involve them in the organization of projects.

yalçın TURKEY

2018-11-15 20:01:33 UTC

we have weekly meetings and I give information about every application we do and inform you how to apply at home

Daniela, Croatia

2018-11-17 21:16:41 UTC

With parent of SEN student I realy have family-friendly environment. My classroom is open to parents in many ways and I communicate with them every day via mail, SMS and through message in app TesTeach, Google Drive and Google lassroom where I publish my school preparation, lessons and worksheets. Once in two weeks parents come in school on individual informations.

Nadia, Italy

2018-11-18 19:11:57 UTC

We have three official meetings with parents during the year, but they can contact us whenever they want. Besides, they are in touch with special education teachers.

Nadia

2018-11-18 19:11:57 UTC

We have three official meetings with parents during the year, but they can contact us whenever they want. Besides, they are in touch with special education teachers.

Carolina Palazzo - Padova/Italy

carolina_palazzosaraceno — 2018-11-18 22:06:32 UTC

I try to contact with families with regular meetings and messages in the diary everytime it's necessary, but their presences in the classroom is admitted only in special cases.

Ana, Portugal

2018-11-18 23:55:26 UTC

We meet our students' parents at least four times a year. But they can contact and ask for a meeting whenever they want and teachers are always ready to receive them.

Ebru, Turkiye

ebrudemirezen06 — 2018-11-19 21:44:20 UTC

It would be neccessary.

Maria, Italy

maria_pesce — 2018-11-19 22:00:01 UTC

I always try to create a family-friendly environment and make family important in my class.Opening my classroom to parents in as many ways as possible. Comunicating frequently with them, aiming at the same goal. Moreover I provide information and ideas about how to best assist with homework and other curriculum-related activities. I Help parents find a balance that works for their child and I Suggest enrichment activities. This will help parents build constructive relationships with their child as well. Some good ideas include fun. Definitively children are more successful at school when parents are involved. Better yet, teachers, too, are positively affected when parents take interest.

For us it's hard to involve parents in the learning

2018-11-20 11:01:15 UTC

Process

Aija, Latvia

2018-11-20 16:09:16 UTC

We involve parents/guardians first of all by letting them knw directly that they are important. We have parent-teacher conferences twice a year. We have an open day for parents to come and seem what their child does during the day. We have seminars for parents regarding pedagogigal topics.

we have weekly meetings and I give information about every application we do and inform you how to apply at home

melikeaybars — 2018-11-20 17:42:13 UTC

Hatice, Turkey

2018-11-20 21:35:55 UTC

We are always in touch with the parents and can reach the teacher whenever they feel the need.

Adriana, Italy

2018-11-20 22:09:21 UTC

In my teaching experience the parents involvement is absolutely fundamental. In my school we lead weekly meeting with family, and twice a year open meeting with families.
Our aim is to create a friendly relationship between the parts.

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2018-11-20 22:58:49 UTC

Parents are very participative, our Physical Education teacher, every Tuesday and Thursday performs physical activities with those responsible, bringing them to school to improve their posture, their health and interaction with other responsible.
We have an informative mural that keeps them informed and we always try to offer lectures and themes to be debated monthly, making them happy with the school environment.

Manea Mirela, România

maneamirela430 — 2018-11-20 23:12:10 UTC

In the perspective of an inclusive school understood as a school that opens flexibly to all children, learning difficulties are considered as normal problems in didactic activity. Solving them is an occasion and a challenge for teachers, students. school managers and other stakeholders. Every teaching is a pressure on the child and must be completed with appropriate support.
Teachers should start solving class problems from the following actions that determine the inclusive way:
Student-related:
knowledge of individuality globally and of certain components that prove the need for intervention;
detecting areas of difficulty especially when they are intermittent and temporal.
Related to group:
knowing the relationships in his class;
use of negotiation techniques, cooperation, collaboration, communication in group activities; Related to his / her own person:
to refine the experience in a reflexive and empathic way; to use collaboration with other teachers and the school manager;
to keep up-to-date with new parks and new theories to implement in its activities

Nico Sarbu

nicosarbu — 2018-11-21 08:19:59 UTC

I try to get parents involved in class activity by keeping them constantly in touch with them, discussing the progress of the child, about the methods used in the class that can be used at home by the parents to accomplish the homework

Sevinç Terzioğlu, TURKEY

2018-11-21 10:12:02 UTC

Actually I sometimes have difficulty in involving parents into action because they rarely have time. In my school area main source of income is animal husbandry so parents are busy. When they come for the parents's meeting I copy and share the similar lessonactivities with them and want them to apply at home too in order to prevent SEN students forget acquisitions. It also provide them to learn by playing games with their parents at their own house.

Ermita

efelgueiras1 — 2018-11-21 15:34:07 UTC

In my practice as a special education teacher, parents and guardians are periodically called upon to establish common strategies for their future aspirations for their children to inform them of how the their children, to know the family atmosphere, the activities outside the school, the family habits, ... In short, to gradually make a team work with the parents, what is done in school extends beyond the school, whenever possible, to the other moments of the student's day, and everything worked on a continum. it is not always easy, since in my experience I find that many of the students have functional parents with difficulties to deal with their children, who only value academic activities (reading, writing, counting, ...). It was also necessary in many cases for therapists and other specialists to work with families to help them deal with the problems of their children and to leverage the "poverty" in which they live

Eunice, Portugal

2018-11-21 15:47:05 UTC

It is vital the envolvement of the parents in their childs education. That can be done be discuss and establish with them common strategies for their child. Homework that they can do toghether and reunion between parents and teacher to assess the development of the child.

Goncagül Ocak

2018-11-21 20:36:22 UTC

Mersin/Türkiye
Families do not want to accept that their children have children with special needs

sometimes it is very difficult to communicate with families

you can cooperate with them if you have gained the trust of families.

home visits became one of the most effective ways for me

Amalia Sole, Italy

2018-11-22 21:15:21 UTC

Without parents collaboration teachers cannot be able to help SEN students.
Sometimes parents don't want to recognize or accept behaviors of own sons, probably expression of special needs or disabilities. For this reasons a good relationship between teachers and parents with periodic meeting is the main action to plan together tools to help SEN students.

Marina, Lithuania.

skobarkav — 2018-12-10 15:09:36 UTC

Not all parents agree with that fact that their children are special. But if they agree, we work together and have good results.

mara_lina23 — 2018-12-11 23:22:52 UTC

Vote on the practices you like!

mara_lina23 — 2018-12-11 23:22:58 UTC

Vote on the practices you like!

Andreea Done, Romania

yahmid_andreea — 2019-01-11 18:44:23 UTC

in my school there are no problems with the education of children with special needs.

isakarakis — 2019-02-16 16:56:36 UTC

ing practice? Vote on the practices you like!

Nurten

isakarakis — 2019-02-16 16:58:05 UTC

I give parents the opportunity to participate in various activities I do at school.

Vesna,Serbia

vesna_jaquet — 2019-04-29 15:00:48 UTC

Invite parents to some workshops or activitiesa that we organize with children. Send the card of achievement.

2019-05-07 17:09:50 UTC

We do ask the parrnts whats their child's interest with ones their are at home and we involve the parwnts in some of our activities so that they can also see their childs improvements.

Anca, Romania

2019-08-07 11:23:52 UTC

Most of the time I organize practical activities together with children and parents, where in addition to objects or decorations we carry on dialogues and share experiences. I noticed a better approach and collaboration with the parents as a result of the practical activities we carry out together.

Engeli, Philippines

2020-01-03 10:10:30 UTC

To conduct field trips is one way to get parents get involve in the teaching - learning activities. Another way is to call for parents meeting to let them know their childrens behaviour and other learning concerns.

China

2020-02-23 02:29:22 UTC

Mini celebration of the students improvements.
Parent-teacher conference.
Three ways conference.
Student lead conference.
Field trip
School wide big events
Send out weekly news letter

Tuğçe E.,Turkey

2020-03-19 15:06:35 UTC

I organize activities that family and students do together at school.

Menchie, Philippines

2020-04-09 10:58:50 UTC

Aside from the trends and practices I voted upon, our parents re involved in decision maaking and developing projects such as donating materials for tthe resource and making dialogue with the government leader in the municiality. They also pledge finacially for SPED program. We do counseling for parents and we organized parents support group

Arlene,UAE

arleneterencio — 2020-04-28 15:08:42 UTC

Whenever i make an activities, I make sure ill inform the parent, and teach her how she will interact with the kids. Mini celebration is always after having a tree way conference. field trip

2020-06-06 11:09:12 UTC

We have parent mornings where they come in and can work with their children. I am available to parents before and after school during drop off and pick up to have conversations with parents and be open to them.

India

2020-11-15 06:51:37 UTC

To conduct field trips is one way to get parents get involve in the teaching - learning activities. Another way is to call for parents meeting to let them know their children's behavior and other learning concerns.

2021-02-14 18:52:48 UTC

Parents/ guardians are involved in all pt visits when in outpatient. teaching them home exercise programs they can do with the children when they are home. a lot of time they are the voice for their children.

Parent involvemnt

2021-03-05 17:25:44 UTC

We send termly IEPs to the parents to make them aware of the plan we had done for each special need student. Also have individual meetings to make sure some activities are continued at home too. For example if a child need social and emotional help we need to be consistent to make things same at both the environments.

Li, Philippines

2021-09-28 12:31:33 UTC

Parents are the best source of information. They are the one who really knows the child. The parents or guardians should always know what is happening to their child. They should be updated in every activity the child’s involve.

Involvement with Parents

2021-11-11 20:33:37 UTC

Have student parent conferences every three months to see how the student. Do weekly email with the parents. Give the parents your contact information and keep reminding parents they are welcome to contact you. Do monthly news letters so the parents know what is up in their child classroom. I can't stress enough communication is key.