Dialogue promotes professionalism
Parents 'involvement in school is important for students' professionalism. Therefore, the contact between schools and bilingual families decisive. Minister of Education welcomes you to a theme day focusing on the difficult school-home collaboration.
Bilingual task force working to strengthen the bilingual pupils' performance in school so they can complete a secondary education. On February 11, featuring Education Tina Nedergaard welcome a special seminar on school-home collaboration of schools who are enrolled in bilingual Task Force and DR's campaign "Two languages - one challenge". "We know that parental involvement in school has a direct impact on children's reading ability and desire to continue in secondary education. Therefore, we must create dialogue and clearly communicate the expectations we have and help parents to understand that they are a resource for their children's learning, "says Tina Nedergaard. One of the speakers at the theme day on home-school cooperation is a PhD researcher Karen Ida Dannesboe from the Danish School of Education. She finishes her Ph.D. on school-home collaboration this summer. Karen Ida Dannesboe indicate that the school must listen to and acknowledge the support that many parents give their children every day. She stresses that children often are nervous and do not think much about the upcoming school-home meetings. The researcher calls, therefore, that students be more involved in the ongoing communication between school and home and for example helps to develop newsletters and thus put words to their school, which is the focal point of the home-school cooperation. On the theme day, among others presentation by journalist Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, psychologist Basim Osman and author and Associate Professor Ulla Kofoed.