High quality feedback – the key to successful cooperation between teachers and parents in preschools Erasmus Project

Project Title

High quality feedback – the key to successful cooperation between teachers and parents in preschools

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Early childhood education and care; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

When teachers present the child’s achievements portfolio to the parents they often focus only on the content, but not on how to present it to the parents, in order to help them fully understand and engage them in further cooperation. The understanding of importance of successful cooperation between teachers and parents and our intention to bring more professional approach of the feedback in the preschools brought our partners organizations together. Within this project we would like to share the best practices and to combine together the experience and knowledge of different European countries.

The aim of this project is to encourage more effective cooperation between teachers and parents in preschool in order to contribute to the development of high quality early childhood education and care systems.
The following objectives have been set to achieve the project’s aim:
– to investigate how teachers provide the feedback to parents about the child’s development in the preschools;
– to define the elements of high quality feedback and share the good practices how to implement those elements in the preschools;
– to prepare, test and publish the methodological recommendations for preschool teachers how to provide high quality feedback to parents.

The project teams of 3 members from Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria and 2 members from Greece will participate in the mobility activities. Those teams will be represented by: headmistresses, preschool teachers, child support specialists. Apart from the project’s team the important role in the local project activities will be given to all members of preschools communities.

Project activities are planned according to the project’s aim and objectives and will cover whole project period. There will be five Short-term joint staff training events organised. During the first workshop in Lithuania participants will learn about the high quality feedback components in preschool. Second workshop will be organised in Latvia to share the best practice examples how ICT tools can be used to provide more attractive and interactive feedback to parents. During the third workshop in Romania our teams will analyse the most common case scenarios based on real data from preschools. Workshop in Greece will be organised to discuss and evaluate the difficulties which teachers faced when were practicing feedback to parents at their preschools. At the end of the project the Closing conference in Bulgaria will be organised to present project results along with the workshops on practical presentations how to use the publication of methodological recommendations in every day work.

Between the mobilities the local activities will be organised at each partners’ school and will contribute a lot to the quality of final project’s results. The project will start with the information seminars to teachers and parents. Also at the beginning and at the end of project the surveys for teachers and parents will be conducted. To practice the feedback delivery skills teachers will have individual meetings with parents. Workshops and round table discussions will be organised before mobilities and after. Also there are dissemination activities planned at local, regional and national level.

Based on the project’s objectives, the following results are expected:
– teachers will gain knowledge about high quality feedback and how to apply its elements in communication with parents;
– teachers’ and parents’ motivation to communicate and cooperate will increase;
– teachers will develop the digital competences while working with ICT tools;
– methodological recommendations for preschool teachers how to apply high quality feedback to parents will be published and disseminated.

The project will have the impact on the higher quality of feedback provided by teachers to parents about child’s development. Also we expect that the cooperation between teachers and parents will increase and it will bring positive changes not only to the project’s participants, but to the whole preschools communities.

The potential longer-term benefits can be indicated to the following groups of schools community:
– teachers will build more successful cooperation with parents;
– child support specialists will receive more accurate information about child’s development from teachers;
– parents will receive the individual recommendations for their child’s development;
– child will receive a full-fledged education based on close cooperation between teachers, child support specialists and parents;
– administration staff will introduce the main principles of effective cooperation between teachers and parents in their educational programs.

The experience gained during this project will provide all partner preschools the expertise and confidence to share their good practice with other preschools in the area in order to build the networks and spread the message about the importance of high quality feedback in communication with parents.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 79729 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vilniaus lopselis-darzelis “Justinukas” & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Priekulu pirmsskolas izglitibas iestade “Mezmalina”
• Scoala ProfesionalaTiberiu Morariu Salva
• 2/thesio oloimero nipiagogeio Elateias
• Detska gradina Arabella