Family Learning Conference – Building effective parental engagement in learning
14 November 2024 | 9.30am-2.00pm | Online

This national Family Learning conference will be exploring parental engagement in learning.

Parental engagement in learning is the single most important factor to ensuring all children and young people are to become brilliant, motivated and creative learners and confident thinkers. If we are serious about education equality, then as educators and policy makers we have to build partnerships with parents and families around children's learning. 

Together with our speakers, we’ll be looking at what effective parental engagement is and looks like, the strategies we can use and how they can be integrated and embedded into practice. 

Confirmed speakers: 

• Cat Jones, Doctoral Researcher, University of Warwick (Keynote) – Cat will present new research findings into teachers’ views on parental engagement and training for parental engagement 
• Family Learning, Education Scotland – Education Scotland will explain how Scotland has increased parental engagement in learning through their policy changes and a focus on family learning approaches which has influenced practice.  
• Emma Craig, Principal Teacher, and Lindsay Patterson, Family Support Worker, Abercromby Primary School - Emma and Lindsay will share their paternal play family learning programme which has engaged more dads and male family members. 
• Learning with Parents – The team at Learning with Parents will talk about digital engagement and interactions between school and parents. 
• Sandra Mather, Sophie Booton and Fiona Jelley, LiFT, Oxford University -  Sandra, Sophie and Fiona will talk about parent engagement in children's media use - and harnessing screen-time for learning.  
• Charlotte Hardacre, Manchester Metropolitan University - Charlotte Hardacre from Manchester Metropolitan University will explain how to include authentic learning principles in family learning sessions as a way to enhance parental engagement.
• Miranda Baxter, Deputy Director, Campaign for Learning  - Miranda will talk about what ‘engagement’ is and what this means for creating effective parental engagement in learning. .

Who should attend? 

This conference is ideal for practitioners and organisations who are looking to develop or refresh their strategies and practice for parental and family engagement in learning, including practitioners in: 

• adult and community learning 
• arts organisations 
• charities 
• early years 
• further education 
• health settings 
• heritage venues 
• libraries 
• local authorities 
• museums and galleries
• schools 

Cost 

Early Bird until Friday 25 October 2024 - £72.00 (including VAT) 

Standard Ticket from 26 October 2024 - £90.00 (including VAT)

10% discount on all tickets for National Centre for Family Learning members (Become a member for free!) Just log in before booking to get your discount.

Please note: We can provide discounted places for people who would find the cost a barrier to attendance. Please get in touch for more information.


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