Parents Involved in their Children’s Learning - Supporting the Home learning Environment

The Pen Green Framework for Engaging Parents


Aimed at


Parents Involved in LearningChildren and family workers within early childhood centres (nurseries, children’s centres, PVI settings) and/or working in the community through family visiting, childminding or outreach work in community centres. We strongly recommend that workers attend the programme in pairs from each setting/organisation with one participant who works directly with children and families, and one who is in a lead position to enable the whole staff team to benefit from this programme.

Purpose and Outcomes


The 3 day programme (2 days followed by work with a family and work in the setting and a further third day for reflection and action planning) is designed to offer workers the opportunity to:
 
  • Integrate the Pen Green Supporting Home Learning methods into your own practice:
      • Sharing child development frameworks
      • Sharing video and documentation
      • Sharing assessments and measuring progress
  • Use our evidence-based programme to provide the verification that Ofsted are looking for
  • Demonstrate how you are making a difference as a whole staff team
  • Explore and discuss their beliefs about working with parents with others workers
  • Explore how to initiate and facilitate discussions with their staff team about working with parents to develop a shared ethos and way of working
  • Share key child development concepts and use video footage of children to reflect on and discuss children’s learning and development with parents
  • Share knowledge about children in a dialogue with parents as equal partners
  • Develop successful and sustainable ways of engaging parents in their children’s learning and development through respectful and responsive relationships

Participants are provided with a training pack and DVD materials.

Accreditation


Participants can gain 20 credits at Master’s Level with Leicester University by completing an assignment detailing the work carried out through the programme and their associated learning (5,000 – 6,000 words) together with a 5 minute video sequence. For this accreditation there is an additional charge of £ 250 to cover tutor support and University registration.


Course information


Forthcoming dates:

 

  • Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th June 2013 (3rd day Tuesday 10th September 2013)
  • Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd October 2013 93rd day TBC)
     

Time: 9.30am to 4pm

Location: Pen Green Research Base, Corby

Cost: £1,350 for two people for the full 3 day course (£675 per person)

Course flyer: Download the course flyer

Booking information: Download a course booking form. For more information about this course please contact Nicky Novis on

01536 443435 or nnovis@northamptonshire.gov.uk
Booking details: We generally offer places for participants to attend in pairs from each setting on programmes which run from Pen Green. We also offer whole programmes for Local Authorities which can either be located at Pen Green or at a venue in your local authority. Some Local Authorities choose the have the 2 days locally and then to offer the third day at Pen Green to enable participants to also visit the Pen Green Centre for Children and their Families, with costs of £16,200 for a Local Authority booking at Pen Green for a cohort of a maximum of 24 people; £17,875 for a Local Authority booking in a local venue for a maximum of 24 people with the option of a third day at Pen Green.

 
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