Staff Training
Package
The staff training package aims to ensure that all staff feel fully involved in creating the schools parental engagement action plan. The resource below includes: a slide deck for the presentation with notes; activities for the training session and resources.
This training can be run in two ways, either in one twilight or half day training session (3-4 hours), or over two staff meetings (1.5 hours each)
If you plan to run the session in on go as either a twilight or half day training session then you will need to adjust the material slightly. The parent surveys will need to be sent out and collected back in before the session.
If you run the session as a two staff meetings, we suggest you leave a gap of 2 – 3 weeks between the sessions so you have time to send the parent survey out after the first session and collect it back before the second session.
-
1. Staff Training Slide Deck
This is the presentation for the staff training session. There are notes to accompany this.
N.B. due to the size of the file, it could only uploaded as a PDF. If you wish to have the PowerPoint version, please contact Tess Sullivan at tsullivan@mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk.
-
2. Presentation Notes
Use the notes to support and guide you through the presentation.
-
3. Engagement/Involvement
Slide 6
Print this out on A3 so you can sort the cards into the correct sections. This activity should promote discussion about what the difference between engagement and involvement is.
You may be surprised how many of the ‘engagement’ activities you run are actually just involvement.
-
4. Engagement/Involvement Cards
Slide 6
Use these for the activity on slide 6. You will need to cut them out and take a couple each to discuss whether they are engagement or involvement. Sort them into the Venn diagram.
Remember to think about engagement as ‘engagement in learning’.
-
5. Benefits for Children, Parents and Schools
Slide 8
Use this resource sheet to think about the benefits for parents, children and schools when parents are engaged in their child’s learning.
-
6. Engaged Parent
Slide 10
Use this resource in pairs or individually to record some things that show a parent is engaged and some things the teachers are doing to engage them.
-
7. Parental engagement poster
Slide 11
The two parental engagement posters are for display in either the staff room or around school to remind stakeholders what the school should be doing to engage parents.
Download the parents poster here.
Download the staffroom poster here.
-
8. Barriers to engagement
Slide 14
The following resources should be used to determine the most important barriers to engagement for your school.
The diamond needs to be printed out on A3. Download this here.
The barriers cards should be printed and cut out to sort in order of importance on the diamond. Download this here.
The barriers resource sheet should be used to begin to come up with some solutions to the barriers. You should tackle the most important ones first. Download this here.
-
9. Parent Conversation
Slide 15
Use the parent conversation to think about what your parents might say about your school.
-
10. Case Studies
Slide 17
Print and cut these out. They will need to be shared out between the staff to discuss and give advice on.
-
11. Parent Surveys
Slide 18
These surveys need to be sent out before the second session where you will be analysing them. Make sure you send them to a random sample otherwise you will end up with too much data to analyse.
-
12. Auditor Information
-
13. Steps to Success
Slide 27
Print this out on A3 or bigger if possible. This is the sheet that you will generate your ideas for your action plan on.
