Conference

2008 Safe Internet Use

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Highlights of previous SSBA conferences :-

2007 Developing a Parent Council and Encouraging Parental Involvement

2006 The Way Forward for Parental Involvement

2005 Parents in Partnership

2003 Partnerships and responsibilities

2002 SSBA is fit for the future

2001 Roadshow

2000 International
and published book
available here online

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Workshops
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Paired Learning

Many parents are less interested in democratic participation in school decision making than they are in the learning progress of their own children. However, parents who ask how they can help at home are all often given vague generalisations, or mechanistic tasks like "supervising homework".

"Paired Learning" is a collective term for a number of carefully structured ways for parents to help their children with learning at home, in co-operation with the school. There are structured methods for reading, thinking skills, writing, spelling, mathematics and science. All have been carefully researched and evaluated and found to be effective.

Paired Reading, in particular, is widely recognised as one of the most effective and cost-effective ways of raising children’s reading attainments.

This workshop will give an introduction to Paired Learning methods.

Keith Topping

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