Erasmus + - FamilySchool
Analysis of focus-groups
with teachers and parents
Main results
Luxembourg
Description of the samples : teachers vs parents
Teachers
6 teachers (from every grade and a teacher of the welcome course)
1 specialized educator
Parents
At the beginning there were 10 parents registered
Finally : 4 parents from 4 nationalities (Portugal, Italy, Montenegro, Spain)
Main results :
TEACHERS
Several difficulties observed with the
official national procedure
related to welcome of migrants pupils.
Lack of communication between schools and municipalities
No common procedures when the pupils arrive in their home classroom
What if the pupil arrives during the year ?
In preschool, it seems easier.
The relationship with the families -> seen as poor.
No difference between migrant families and Luxembourgish
families
: both for school-family relationship and parental involvement
Main results :
PARENTS
Main feedback : sense of being welcomed, well received and
well-integrated.
Teachers are seen as friendly.
They organize translators and mediators and the parents receive information when they have questions.
Highlighted strength : the teacher of the welcome course
because this teacher speaks several languages.
This teacher remains a reference person in the school for migrant families even when the students are no longer in her classroom.
They appreciate the education received by their children in schools.
Main results :
PARENTS
The parents say that they have little information about the school
system.
FG :
MAIN ISSUES
COMMUNICATION
Due to the huge diersity of languages.
The teachers communicate with gestures and many images.
Preference for oral rather than written language.
Lack of parents’ proactivity towards teachers and to seek
information about the administrative procedures and school system.
Student's school education can sometimes be secondary for the
parents:
Their work and family come first.
During informal exchanges, risk of mixing school themes with extra-curricular themes.
FG :
MAIN ISSUES
Too low parental involvement (at school – meeting, school
activities…)
But parents justify their absence because of work schedule.
Parents say that they are involved in their children's school education at home -> review assignments, motivate them to read, homework.
