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Stirling Conference March 2011 The effect of parental involvement on childrens learning and development Professor Charles Desforges OBE Children born thinkers expecting, exploring making sense of: language their world you themselves

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Stirling Conference

March 2011

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The effect of parental involvement on children’s learning and development

Professor Charles Desforges OBE

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Children

born thinkers expecting, exploring making sense of: language their world you themselves

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Doing well

nature or nurture? skills attitudes values

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lo ach hi

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Factors shaping educational

utcomes

child’s characteristics family characteristics parental involvement school quality community peer group family support services

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Teenage outcomes and socio-economics

Poorest Richest 25% 25% 5 GCSE (A* to C inc 20% 75%

Ma & Eng)

NEET at 17 15% 2% Truant at 14 24% 8%

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Explaining the link: major factors

parents’ attitudes and behaviours material resources young person’s attitudes and behaviours “What parents do is more important than who they are”

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Effects of parents/effect of schools

achievement parents / school effects

age 7 0.29 / 0.05 age 11 0.27 / 0.21 age 16 0.14 / 0.51

from Sacker et al (2002)

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Barriers to parental involvement

extreme poverty and social chaos substance abuse depression the difficult relationship lack of confidence or knowledge alternative values barriers set up by schools

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Factors in parenting

warmth consistency authoritative style skill hle

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Challenges to modern parenting

Changes in: relationships social networks working circumstances children’s power finances

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Implications for leadership

strategy for parent support analysis vision personalisation resourcing partnerships MER

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Leadership

driven by ‘families matter’ vision whole school approach proactive

utcomes focussed

capacity building

(capacity = motivation x skill x opportunity)

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Needs based

questionnaires focus groups surveys parents as researchers knowledge exchange

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Good practice in family learning

(Ofsted 2009)

leadership targeting and recruitment specifically designed programmes (not off-the-shelf) focus on building … confidence communication skills literacy/numeracy

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Lessons from research

(Goodall and Vorhaus: in press)

best programmes train academic and parenting skills

best effects: effect size

parents helped to read to child 0.18 parents helped to listen to child read 0.51 parents helped to teach specific reading skills 1.15

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References

Allen, G. (2011) Early Intervention: the next steps (an independent report to HM Government, Jan 2011) www.c4eo.org.uk Field, F. (2010) The foundation years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults (the report of the independent review on poverty and life chances) (www.frankfield.co.uk) Lexmond, J., Bazalgette, L., and Margo, J (2011) It is time to be honest about what good parenting involves: the home front. Demos (www.demos.co.uk) www.nationalcollege.org.uk Leadership parental engagement and look out for ... Ofsted report on parental engagement due NOW DfE/IoE report ‘Best practice in parental engagement due SOON

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