This is a template for an inquiry project in a senior level early childhood course.
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. It sets out ‘promising’ and ‘not promising’ approaches drawn from multiple studies
which have measured the effects of different strategies. While there is room for improvements in the
quality of available research evidence,2 these approaches provide ‘best bets’ for guiding practice. This
guide also sets out next steps for considering how the findings relate to your individual practice or
whole school strategy.
Note that some of the examples offered may not apply in all contexts. Reasonable adjustments should
be made where necessary to ensure full access and participation for all families.
Authors: Daniel Schunk, Eva Berger, Henning Hermes, Kirsten Winkel, and Ernst Fehr. In 2022, we published a study on teaching self-regulation to primary school children in Nature Human Behavior. By publishing the materials developed for our study as an OER, we hope to contribute to open science policy and to promote the transfer between research and school practice.