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The Parent Partnership Toolkit for Early Years
“Parents and the home life they create are the single most important factor in shaping their children’s well-being, achievements and prospects.” Every Parent Matters Report, DfES, 2007a
The Parent Partnership Toolkit for Early Years is a resource designed to provide vital information to early-years practitioners and help them develop strong, positive relationships with the families who use their setting.
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Benefits
The Parent Partnership Toolkit for Early Years contains three sections designed to:
- support you to develop effective and collaborative relationships with your pupils’ parent or guardian
- develop the skills of early years practitioners in your setting
- provide you with a wide range of practical resources to support and empower parental engagement
- help you to establish parental involvement as an expectation.
Summary of contents
The Parent Partnership Toolkit for Early Years has been developed in three sections focusing on a strategic view of parent partnership, how to create a parent-friendly ethos and practical resources to support parental engagement:
Section 1: Context for developing parental involvement
This section takes a strategic view of parent partnership. It looks at the context in which the emphasis on partnership with parents is developing. It reviews the research evidence, summarises government policy in this area and looks at initiatives to develop the skills of early years practitioners in working with parents.
Section 2: Developing a parent-friendly ethos
Section two looks at how to create a ‘parent friendly ethos’. It provides a framework for planning the improvement of parent partnership in an early-years setting. It demonstrates how attitudes to working in partnership with parents affect all aspects of an early years setting and provides a range of tools and resources to support quality improvement in this area.
Section two covers the following areas:
- establishing the vision and values
- creating a welcoming environment
- listening to parents
- communicating with parents
- key person working
- supporting parent-child relationships
- auditing your provision.
Section 3: Practical ideas for developing partnerships with parents
This section consists of a wide range of practical resources to support parental engagement. These range from ways to incorporate partnership with parents into the everyday planning and organisation of the setting, ‘one-off’ activities to engage with groups of parents and information leaflets for parents about different aspects of children’s playing and learning.
Section three looks at the following areas:
- creating links with home
- using collections of everyday things as a focus for supporting parents’ understanding of young children’s play
- out and about: helping parents to make the most of the vast range of opportunities presented by outdoor play
- family workshops – exploring together
- family members as visitors to your setting – to share their life and work with the children
- the value of play – build parents' understanding of early years curriculum and the value of play within it.
Description
Print: A4 wiro bound, 180 pages.
eBook: 1x PDF file
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Customer Rating
Thoroughly recommended
28 January 2011‘The Parent Partnership Toolkit for Early Years’ has helped us forge stronger and more mutually beneficial relationships with the parents of children at our nursery school. The resource does an excellent job of covering the context and theory behind parent partnerships whilst also providing a large number of practical resources to ensure parents are involved in the life of the nursery. I would thoroughly recommend this to any early years practitioner looking to bolster parent partnerships.