Enhancing the cooperation between basic school teachers, parents, school leaders and municipalities in support of developing multilingual students´ Estonian skills

In this project, we first aim to identify the best pedagogical and cooperative practices for and obstacles to the development of the Estonian skills of basic school students whose home language is not Estonian. Second, by means of interventions, we aim to promote the cooperation of key persons (teachers, parents, school leaders and municipalities) and teachers' self-efficacy to support students more uniformly in learning Estonian and in Estonian. We focus our research on (a) basic school subject and Estonian teachers, (b) parents, and (c) school leaders and municipalities. As a result, we shed light on the actors' abilities, resources, will and cooperative capacity to act for a common goal. Moreover, we show how to promote teachers' self-efficacy and key persons' cooperative practices in teaching Estonian and in Estonian, practicing CLIL, and supporting multilingualism. As a result of the project, action plans and recommendations are formulated for schools, families, and policy makers.