Transcript Standing on the shoulders of giants Ensuring the legacy of Family Learning

Standing on the
shoulders of giants
Ensuring the legacy of Family
Learning
Sue Evans
[email protected]
Why bother?
• Why ‘do’ family learning?
• Why do it instead of something else?
• Why change it?
Creating a body of evidence
• National and international research
• Inspection
• Data analysis
• Time lapse studies
• Learner feedback
• Case studies and interviews
• Adults, children, siblings, families
The Evaluator’s Cookbook
www.ne-cf.org
Family Literacy, Language and
Numeracy Programmes 2005
Number of families involved in programmes:
98
% Children whose confidence has grown:
99%
% Adults whose communication with school has
increased
87%
% Children who have exceeded
literacy/numeracy targets
67%
Benefits to the school:
• Better partnerships with parents
• Better understanding by parents of ‘child as
a learner’
• New governors recruited
• Parents more confident in their ability to
help child
• Brings new life into the school
• Good for parents to show children that they
value school
• Better parenting skills
Benefits for the Family:
•
Shared experiences inform home
conversations
•
Development of basic skills in family
•
Seeing teachers work as role models
•
Adults are assessed as to essential skills
need and are offered support by an Isle of
Wight College tutor. This year we have for
the third year running achieved a 92% pass
rate in the national literacy test level one for
adults.
Initial findings on impact of 20 week
intensive courses in nine primary schools
Isle of Wight, Family Learning Service
Evaluation, evaluation, evaluation
• Plan your evaluation when you plan your
project
• Choose your focus carefully
• Do what you must do – then do what you
think will be most useful/interesting
• But always do something
• Use your colleagues and networks
• Share your findings as widely as you can
‘We are like dwarfs sitting on the
shoulders of giants. We see more, and
things that are more distant, than they did,
not because our sight is superior or
because we are taller than they, but
because they raise us up, and by their great
stature add to ours.’
John of Salisbury