Engage with families to support students' learning
Overview
There is a great deal of evidence that families play a critical role in their child’s learning. Family engagement is important throughout all stages of schooling, but strategies may look different at different stages.
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Family engagement for learning is related to Focus Area 3.7 and Focus Area 7.3 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Australian Professional Standards for Principals
Family engagement for learning is related to 'Professional Practice 5 Engaging and working with the community' in the Australian Professional Standards for Principals.
Research
AERO has produced practice guides on this topic, tailored to different contexts.
Primary school practice guide
This guide makes recommendations based on the best available research evidence about how primary school teachers and leaders can engage with families to bring about improvements in students’ learning outcomes.
Secondary school practice guide
This guide makes recommendations based on the best available research evidence about how secondary school teachers and leaders can engage with families to bring about improvements in students’ learning outcomes.
Annotated reference list
An overview of the research evidence cited throughout our family engagement practice resources.
Brief methodology
This explainer describes the process we followed to synthesise the available research evidence on family engagement to create the family engagement practice guides.
Detailed methodology
This detailed methodology describes the processes we followed to synthesise the available research evidence on family engagement for learning.