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Engaging Parents with Microsoft SharePoint Learning Gateway Twynham School Mike Herrity

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Page 1: Parental engagement in practice

Engaging Parents with Microsoft SharePoint

Learning Gateway

Twynham School Mike Herrity

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What is SharePoint?

• SharePoint is a collaborative platform for sharing

resources and working in teams.

• Used extensively in industry and now a $1billion dollar

technology for Microsoft.

• SharePoint is increasingly used by schools and districts

as a collaborative Learning Platform.

• Particularly in high use in education in the UK and

Australia and increasingly in North America.

• In the UK the phrase Microsoft Learning Gateway is a

very common way of describing the use of SharePoint in

Education.

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Learning

Gateways

Revision

Gateways

Student

HomepageMy Progress

Interaction

and

Independence

How Students use the Twynham Learning Gateway

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To find out more about the use of SharePoint in Education

www.sharepointineducation.com

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To find out more about Twynham Learning Gateway in general.

Free E-book illustrating our work with

SharePoint as a Learning Gateway at

Twynham School

To get this directly click here

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Effective

Learning

School ParentStudent

The role of the parent in the learning process

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The importance of Parental Engagement

Recent research has shown that parental engagement

is a decisive factor in determining learner

achievement.”

“What really matters is that learners feel their parents

are paying attention, engaged in the children’s learning

and care about their performance.”

Online Reporting BECTA 2008

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How do we engage parents?

• Ask the parents what they want and how they plan

to use it!

• Use technology to make a difference and

genuinely add value.

• Focus on what will genuinely help parents to

better support their children’s learning.

• Constantly reflect with parents on how to improve

and focus on evolution not revolution.

• Be aware of those who are ‘hard to reach’.

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Engagement strategies.

• Parent Gateway

• Online Reporting to Parents

• Online Options

• 6th Form Website

• Online Mentoring

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Parent Gateway

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Options Online Homepage

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Explaining Pathways

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Allowing parents to respond and question

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Options Online Homepage

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Student Comments

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Sample Lesson

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Ask subject related questions

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Easy editing for teachers

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Engaging parents beyond our school

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Rich media interface

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Slick visual subject pages

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Detailed course information

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Student experience

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Crossing through different schools

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Mentoring students academically

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Focused programme

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Detailed information for mentors

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SMART Targets

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Target Setting