Home access and parental support

Mike Briscoe, Director, Institutions, Becta

Chris Stevens, Head of Inclusion Policy, Inclusion Policy, Becta

BETT 08Friday, 11 January 2008

This seminar will introduce:

• The opportunities to improve parental engagement

• An understanding of what parents say they want

• Information about the Home Access and Computers for

Pupils programmes

• Information about real-time reporting for parents

• How to find out more.

What parents say they would like..

to contact schools via email, receive

training using ICT

more information about which websites they

should encourage their children to use.

Help from schools to support their children’s

school work

to use ICT to give flexible patterns when developing learning materials ahead of lessons so that they are tailored for different

pupils, such as those with special needs

to take advantage of formal and informal professional development opportunities

available online.

to transfer, edit and save work on a shared area to

effectively address teacher workloads

What teachers say they would like..

What parents and schools see as the benefits

Video clips are available – to watch these, please download the zip file from the web page

http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35111

The Parents’ Premium

• Parental involvement in a child’s schooling between ages 7 and 16 is a more powerful force than family background, size of family and level of parental education (Feinstein, L & Symons, J. Oxford Economic papers, 51 (1999))

Achievement Parent effect School effect

Age 7 0.29 0.05

Age 11 0.27 0.21

Age 16 0.14 0.51

Effects of parents/Effects of schools:

What is it that makes a difference?A father’s interest in a

child’s schooling is strongly linked to educational

outcomes for the child; (Hobcraft. CASE briefing Nov 1998)

It is the ‘at-home’ relationships and

modelling of aspirations which play the major part in impact on school outcomes.

(Desforges 2003)

Very high parental interest is associated

with better exam results than for children whose parents show no

interest (NCDS 1999)

Pupils’ achievement in the schools where the impact of parental involvement

was [judged to be] outstanding had clearly

improved. (Ofsted 2007)

They [parents] should be supported… providing the

results of periodic assessments for parents in

an easy to understand format, such as using ‘traffic lights’ to indicate children’s

understanding of key concepts

(2020 Vision: recommendations)

What is it that makes a difference?A father’s interest in a

child’s schooling is strongly linked to educational

outcomes for the child; (Hobcraft. CASE briefing Nov 1998)

It is the ‘at-home’ relationships and

modelling of aspirations which play the major part in impact on school outcomes.

(Desforges 2003)

Very high parental interest is associated

with better exam results than for children whose parents show no

interest (NCDS 1999)

…It’s what parents do rather than who they

are that counts

Pupils’ achievement in the schools where the impact of parental involvement

was [judged to be] outstanding had clearly

improved. (Ofsted 2007)

They [parents] should be supported… providing the

results of periodic assessments for parents in

an easy to understand format, such as using ‘traffic lights’ to indicate children’s

understanding of key concepts

(2020 Vision: recommendations)

What parents say (Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Education survey 2007)

57% would like to be updated termly or more often

79% would find web access to reports on their child very or quite appealing

Using technology in schools (Harnessing Technology review 2007)

“Technology enables the achievement of productive time efficiencies most where it is embedded effectively across the institution. Teachers report time savings using technology in lesson planning and lesson delivery. However, overall, evidence suggests that efficiencies from technology relate mainly to quality improvement for the same resource input and improved use of practitioner time, rather than significant time savings”

Learner

Parent School

Home Access Programme Real-time reportingComputers for Pupils

Home Access Programme

“The Home Access Programme aims to ensure every learner in England (5- to 19-year-olds and in maintained education) has access to increased educational opportunities via ICT resources at home.”

Examples of

Home Access

Products

THE HOME ACCESS

PROPOSITION

EducationalVision

VisionDVD

Out of the box

solutions

Safety &Security

Benchmarks

X-C

utting Policy Initiatives

Functional Expectation

Maximising

the benefits

of Home

Access

Raising

Awareness

of improved

learning

Removing

barriers

of cost

Home Access aspects of the work

• An educational initiative not a roll out of technology

• An entitlement backed by minimum specification

• No assumption that it will be centrally funded

• Report to Jim Knight in April 2008

• Possible roll out September 2008

• Monitoring extending and improving over a number of years

• Further investigations

• Fully inclusive with all learners benefitting

• Public consultation

Computers for Pupils

• 2 year initiative to provide 100,000 pupils in the most deprived homes with computers and internet access

• Second year - 41,000+ homes benefiting already but target may not be met for variety of reasons

• Becta mini-competitions and connectivity offer

• Additional funding so more learners can benefit

• 10% of most deprived backgrounds will have benefited from chance to access technology and the internet from home.

• Funding solely for the technology.

• Challenge is to design a programme that ensure both equality of access and enhance educational benefit for all learners

“Parents will have regular, up to date information on their child’s attendance, behaviour and progress in learning;”

• By September 2008 all secondary schools will be expected to provide information to parents covering achievement, progress, attendance, behaviour and special needs, on a timely and frequent basis – this should be at least once per term.

• By September 2010 all secondary schools will need to offer parents real-time access to this information (including the opportunity for secure online access) wherever they are and whenever they want.

• Primary schools must also meet the basic requirement by September 2010 and the real time requirement by 2012.

Real-time reporting

Learner

Parent School

Community information

Access from home

Parents resources

Access to resources

Home and course work

Access to materials

Online reporting

Parent and learner days

Electronic reports

Email exchanges

Mobile ‘phone alerts

SMS

texting

Community information

Access from home

Parents resources

Access to resources

Home and course work

Access to materials

Online reporting

Parent and learner days

Electronic reports

Email exchanges

Mobile ‘phone alerts

SMS

texting

Real-time access, reporting and dialogue

Learning Platforms

MIS

20122010

Real-time access, reporting and dialogue

Absolute basis of reporting supported by ICT (MIS)

Learner

Parent School

Home Access Programme Real-time reportingComputers for Pupils

This seminar has introduced:

• The opportunities to improve parental engagement

• An understanding of what parents say they want

• Information about the Home Access and Computers

for Pupils programmes

• Information about real-time reporting for parents

• How to find out more.

For more information:

Visit us on Stand J40 – National Hall

Visit us online at www.becta.org.uk