Academic Partnership

Trusting relationships between teachers and families have been shown to improve student success in school. These trusting relationships also provide a great opportunity for teachers to create academic partnerships with families that will further increase student learning and success.

Academic partnerships begin with Goal Setting Parent-Teacher Conferences where teachers, who have received training, meet with families to:

• Listen to and learn from a family’s expertise on their child in order to better understand and reach each student
• Share data to increase a parent’s understanding of why and what teachers want their child to learn, how teachers evaluate their child’s learning, and how their child is doing presently in school
• Model learning support strategies focused on the individual child’s needs that parents can use at home with their child
• Set goals with parents to work regularly on foundational academic skills at home
• Support parents on meeting the goals

Principles for academic partnerships

Governing Body has approved the following principles on which the School’s academic partnerships should be based:

• in developing partnerships learnfromschool must consider the education environment of the partner country and try to strengthen the local educational provision;
• engagement with trans-national education (other than distance learning) should be pursued only in partnership involving a sharing of risks and costs;
• the development of new double/dual Masters degree programmes with overseas partners will be a priority;
• the development of distance PhDs and collaborative PhDs with overseas partners will be pursued as a priority as part of the process of exploiting the opportunities that degree-awarding powers would provide;
• learnfromschool will form alliances with only those institutions that share our values;
• learnfromschool should develop a number of deep, multifaceted partnerships where there is clear strategic advantage, whether this is with individual institutions or networks of institutions, whilst retaining simple partnerships where they fill a clear need (e.g. in providing for language training abroad.

The School’s Student Experience Strategy sets out its obligations and strategic aims in regard to the quality of the learning experience offered to all students, including those participating in programmes involving partner institutions. These principles will be applied within the School and Faculty planning process to all proposals for academic partnerships.