TEACHERS' STANDARDS

Boosting Parental Engagement with Strategies to Strengthen School Partnerships

This course relates to Teachers’ Standard 8. The specific areas of each are described below: 
Created and presented by Twinkl PD’s Anna Edwards, this course centred around boosting parental engagement will share strategies to enable you to develop effective working partnerships with parents and carers, to support their engagement and involvement in school life.

You will discover the theory behind the importance of parental engagement on learner progress and techniques to help engage with hard-to-reach families. You'll learn how to break down common barriers to parental engagement and explore how to utilise a tailored approach, based on individual needs and circumstances, to enable all families to positively engage with school life. 
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Anna Edwards & Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course


By completing this course, you will:

have an understanding of what parental engagement is and why it is important;
explore how to engage effectively with parents and carers;
develop strategies to aid parental engagement;
put your planned strategies into practice, seek feedback and review your own development;
evaluate your practice and anticipate any next steps.

Course Lessons

Written and presented by: Anna Edwards

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Anna has been working in education for the last 12 years, in a variety of roles. She has worked across London, in a range of different positions and settings, including as an assistant headteacher in one of the largest federations in the capital. Anna now splits her time between writing for Twinkl, class teaching and consulting for a charity, which specialises in parental engagement with school. Parental engagement, alongside curriculum and behaviour, are of particular interest to Anna. In her spare time, Anna is the mother of two young boys and enjoys long walks with her dog.

In collaboration with: Carly Watkins

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Carly Watkins has over twenty years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.

Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.