QualiFLY – 3rd Project Meeting Dublin, 8-10 May 2006

Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education, m.elfert@unesco.org

Working with parentsThe FLY project in Hamburg

Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education, m.elfert@unesco.org

Dr. Gabriele Rabkin, Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung, gabriele.rabkin@li-hamburg.de

Ways of working with parents

1) How we recruit parents2) Activities with parents and childrenin the classroom3) Separate parents‘ sessions4) Joint children/parents‘ activitiesoutside school5) How we keep parents on the programme6) Literacy suitcase for parents

1) How we recruit parents

Parents‘ eveningsParents are contacted by

headmaster, teachers and other people involvedAdvocacy work (exhibitions, posters in the schools)

2) Activities with parents and children in the classroom

Reading booksLiteracy gamesWorking sheets (folder)Special events (e.g. drumming

with a musician, inviting a policeman)

3) Separate parents‘ sessions

Parents create a folder for theirchildParents write stories illustrated by family photosPresentation of „products“ in

public

4) Joint children/parents‘ activities

outside school

Literacy walksVisit of a museum, a market,

library, post office etc.

5.How we keep parents on the programme

Contact parents in different ways:Daily reminders by class teachers(telephone calls)Parents‘ visiting daysAttendance listsCertificates

Involvement of native speaking „keypersons“Pressure: „You must come“Private contacts of mothers among each otherChildren push their parents to come

Perspective: Make participation of children

with severe needs and their parent obligatory

How we keep parents on the programme

6. New project:Literacy suitcase for parents(with special funds)

A Turkish mother tried out a recipe from a cookbook in the suitcase.

She prepared little cakes for all the children in the class