Parenting
What Is Family Involvement
Benefits of Teacher-Family Partnerships
Barriers to Teacher-Family Partnerships
Potpourri
100
The strong, affectional, mutual tie formed in the 2 years following birth and enduring over time
What is attachment?
100
Preschool/ parent cooperatives Head Start Intervention programs
What are examples of programs requiring family involvement?
100
The only industrialized country without universal preschools.
What is the United States?
100
* Scope and function * Intensity of affect * Attachment * Rationality * Spontanaeity * Partiality
What are the fundamental differences between parents and teachers?
100
Roles shared by men and women and have similar functions.
What are androgynous roles?
200
* Making the child feel important and loved * Responding to the child's cues and clues * Accepting the child for who he/she is * Promoting strong values * Using constructive discipline *Being there for the child
What makes a good parent?
200
An early intervention program started in Chapel Hill, NC
What is the Abecedarian Project?
200
* Increased security in the new school environment * Increased feelings of self-worth * Increased number of helpful responses, and success in appropriate learning experiences.
What is the three benefits to children when parents and teachers work together?
200
* Time * Busy-ness * Old ideas of parent involvement * Adminstrative policies * Personal problems
What are barriers caused by external factors?
200
*Better education of women * Expections of a better lifestyle * Changes in basic attitudes toward roles, with new social perspectives * Reduced amount of time needed for housework
What are reasons for the increase in the number of working mothers?
300
* The parent as nurturer * The parent as worker * The parent in adult relationships * The parent as an individual * The parent as consumer * The parent as community member * The parent as educator
What are the roles of a parent?
300
The Act that provides services for children with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
300
* Feelings of support * Knowledge and skills gained by parents to help them in child-rearing * Enhanced self-esteem
What are the three ways parents benefit from a positive teacher-parent relationship
300
Another name for the classroom, which is generally "controlled" by the teacher. (Where the teacher has the "power")
What is "turf"?
300
Programs that focus on children and parents as a unit, with the parents becoming active in their child's development- not teaching parents and children in separate and distinct programs. (Working with the family as a whole)
What is family-centered literacy programs?
400
Restrictions Isolation Fatigue Guilt Uncertainty Real concern for the child
What are emotional responses of parents?
400
Child Care Resources Incorporated Smart Start of Mecklenburg County
What are state-funded family support programs?
400
* Increased knowledge about the child * Positive feedback * Parental resources to supplement or reinforce their own efforts
What are the three benefits for teachers working with parents?
400
The first step to developing supportive learning relationships.
What is trust?
400
* Parents may become dominant in the classroom. * Teachers may feel intimidated by parents * Lack of classroom space * Teachers are afraid of parent scrutiny * Teachers lack confidence
What are reasons teachers are reluctant to involve parents in the classroom?
500
Parents cannot afford the cost of quality childcare -> Quality childcare suffers from turnover due to inadequate wages -> Low wages provide hidden subsidy for parents. OR Parents want quality childcare -> Quality childcare needs trained workers -> Trained childcare workers support families.
What is the childcare trilema?
500
* Provides stronger accountability for results measured by student achievement test scores, with corrective actions to be taken as needed. * Encouraging the use of proven education methods to improve student learning and achievement.
What is The No Child Left Behind?
500
Their knowledge is "horizontal"
What is a teacher's knowledge?
500
Keeping others away from the child, either physically or by subtle interference. Or, a subtle attempt to undermine the position of the other adult in relation to the loved child.
What is gatekeeping?
500
* Validation of adult status and social identity * Expansion of self- a continuance of the family * Achievement of moral value * Stimulation, novelty, fun * Power and influence over another
What are motivations for people when they decide to become parents?
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