Enhancing family-school partnerships through in-service teacher training programs and action-research in this field

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In  this  article  the  authors  describe  some  actions  carried  out  to  develop  family-school  partnership through in-service training for teachers in this field. An Action-Training Seminar consisting of Professionals involved in different levels of education (Inspection, Teachers from Infant to Secondary Education, University Teachers and Post-graduate students in Education) has been set up to train primary and secondary school teachers and to help them build action-research teams with parents in schools. The aims of these teams based at the schools have been to analyze partnership needs and to organize some activities to meet them.