"Parents active" and its islands of competence
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06 February 2015"Parents-Active" is a program of the city of Munich for parents, teachers and child care workers to improve their skills in order to cooperate in a kind of partnership.
The Munich report of education from 2006 became aware of the fact that a lot of children are disadvantaged just by the area they live in, a poor neighbourhood with a high social impact. This problem passed down generations, children grew up and stayed in the same neighbourhood as their parents did. So there was a need to find activities to mediate between parents and social actors, like teachers and child care workers to reduce prejudices and contact anxiety.
The challenge was to find a private agency to perform the project, to bring the government of Bavaria in and to find appropriate schools with motivated actors (parents, teachers, child care workers) for the islands of competence. The project was initiated by the unit for education and sports of the city of Munich in agreement with the governmental school authority.
The target groups are all parents of children in Munich's primary schools, and especially the parents in regions with high social impacts. All primary schools (parents' association, headmaster, head of day care) get an index of issues of activities (activities terms: parents-education-evenings; parents meeting parents - parents-child-actions)and can call up these issues whenever they want in agreement with parents-mentoring.
Islands of competence obligate themselves to appoint one teacher and one child care worker as parents partners for the minimum of one year and to guarantee an information evening for the whole college. They provide the contact between the parents' association and a private agency, obligate themselves to copy all invitations for the parents and allocate adequate rooms for activities. They also deliver insight to dates (under permission of data protection), which are necessary for analysis and strategy of the private agency and obligate themselves to advise the neighbour schools. They of course get an analysis of demands and interests of all local players.
legend of the photo:
The head teacher of Erik-Kästner school surrounded by two members of PREVENT
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