Parent involvement Activity • Artemis Papandritsa • Parent involvement as an educational tool • Cooperation with the nursery teacher and my pupils doing their practice on the field 1

Interaction with Colleagues Through my cooperation with my colleague nursery teacher and our common guidance of the Albanian mother, we succeeded into the realization of both target-posing and its implementation in the teaching process 2

Successes Kids’ recognition and respect of various cultures Building-up of parents’ motivation to accomplish educational tasks The Greek students’ change of attitude towards their foreign classmates 3

Challenges Parents’ hesitation at first place The way of posing to kids the “underbelly” issue of “being different=not being inferior” Although the above factors were constrictive enough in the beginning, through the successful cooperation with my colleague, we accomplished our task. 4

Next Steps We will continue considering parents as an integral part of the teaching procedure We will encourage more parents to actively participate in knowledge We will keep insisting on the premise that Greek and foreign students are “a uniform whole” This activity has remained an incessant feedback process 5