This session is part of a series of six ITE sessions that can be delivered to increase students' knowledge about key issues and effective practice for teaching refugee and asylum seeker children and young people in primary and secondary schools. All the sessions help student teachers plan for the diverse needs of all pupils, support their educational achievement and promote race equality, well-being and community cohesion.
This session aims to develop students' understanding of the importance of parental involvement for refugee children's achievement. The session draws on key research and also asks students to consider some of the particular barriers that refugee parents may experience to getting involved in school and their children's education.
Students will gain an understanding of some of the key aspects of work in schools to successfully involve refugee parents, along with the particular role of ethnic minority achievement (EMA) practitioners.
The session also provides an opportunity to consider the practice of one school, who have developed a range of approaches to making parents from different backgrounds feel welcome and building positive relationships.
Bill Bolloten and Tim Spafford
www.refugeeeducation.co.uk