作為凝聚有特殊教育需要子女家長的處所，特殊學校是有責任組織適切的活動，支援家長克服子女的學習及成長困難。本文概述一所收取中度智障學童的學校，如何透過發展性小組去支援校內的家長，並探討如何就這些孩子家長的需要、家校合作的現況、家長參與的層次與區分、家長賦權歷程、學校背景、朋輩輔導及小組發展歷程等概念，去全面理解不同持分者在籌辦家長互助小組過程中，要準備的工作及注意事項。透過有層次地去組織支援家長的「伴你同行」小組，除能夠支援更有需要的家長，加強他們處理子女學習、行為、情緒問題，增強親子關係並完備家庭與學校合作的同時，亦促使家長間建立一個非常規的支持和朋輩網絡。 Special schools being a place for gathering parents of students with special educational needs bear the responsibility of organizing supporting services for these parents to overcome difficulties encounter by their children. The paper describes the efforts of a special school for moderate intellectually disabled students in applying developmental group work to support the parents of the school. While considering the needs of these parents, current trends of home-school cooperation, differentiated levels of parental involvement in a school, parent empowerment process, school background, peer tutoring and group development processes for enhancing the understanding of different stake-holders of the school to plan and organize parent groups of such purposes are examined and applied. In the end, not only that the parent support group supported the more needy parents in strengthening their methods of coping with learning, behavioural, emotional difficulties and parent-child relationship. The support group too facilitated home school cooperation process, an informal peer support network amongst these parents is formed as another source of support for parents of the school.
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「家長參與」成為香港近年其中一個重要的教育變革。基於社會的變遷，範式轉移，和全球化校本管理的簡政放權改革運動，香港家長在學童教育的角色由傳統的麻煩製造者和被動參與者過渡成為今天被廣泛認同的積極溝通者、學校義務工作者及管理者，最後形成了家長與學校工作人員的夥伴關係。本文引用香港教育政策文件及相關文獻參考，目的旨在探討近二十年香港家長在其子女教育中的蛻變角色，及其對教師和學校運作的衝擊。作者把這段時期家校關係的發展概念化為五個階段：包括家長沉默與順從期、家長權利的甦醒期、家校聯繫期、學校問責期和家長全面參與期。作者同時指出在現職和職前的教師教育培訓課程中，有需要加入「家校合作」的知識、技能和態度訓練去裝備前線的教育工作者，冀能改變教師對家長參與學校教育的價值觀及增強教師與家長工作的效能。