There are 2 modules, designed with Causeway Education, that will support a strategic approach to the delivery of integrated and progressive parental engagement in careers education.
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Parental Engagement - CPD session 1
Planning for Parent/Carer Engagement
Session 1 is aimed at Careers Leaders who are new to role or looking to understand more about how you can engage parents in careers education.
By the end of this session, you will have:
- Tools, techniques and examples of best practice.
- Examined any barriers to involvement for your school, special school or college community and how to overcome them.
- Evaluated current provision and identified opportunities to deepen engagement.
- Planned a targeted piece of family-friendly careers education that addresses a need in your setting.
Parental Engagement - CPD session 2
Developing and Embedding a Whole-Institution Strategic Approach
If you are a more experienced Careers Leader, or an education leader with responsibility for careers education in your institution, you may benefit from starting with session 2.
Session 2 explores how creating an institution-wide approach to careers through strategic planning can have a deeper impact on learners and their parents.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Understand what effective strategic and embedded parental engagement looks like, and the difference it can make to learners.
- Identify relevant staff and the roles they can play, and support them to integrate objectives for ‘PE in careers education’ into their own practice/provision.
- Identify priority groups based on local data/evidence and ensure PE activities are targeted to meet the needs of these groups.
- Develop a progressive framework of ‘PE in careers education’ objectives across all student cohorts.
- See a full picture view of the power of family-inclusive careers education.