Chapter 1
The various social and linguistic practices and the historically accumulated bodies of knowledge that are essential to students' homes and communities.
What are Funds of Knowledge?
Distinctive ways of "ordering experience" or of "constructing reality."
What is paradigm?
The different elements that shape family members' sense of identity.
What is family diversity?
A means of considering how diverse contexts influence family-school relationships, and describe several educational innovations that can support the learning of children from diverse cultural and economic contexts.
What is cultural reciprocity?
You're the driver of your bus.
What is Rule #1?
T/F: Teachers of color collectively account for 83% of the teaching force.
False: 17%
The ways of being, knowing, writing, talking, and thinking that characterize those who succeed in this culture.
What is cultural capital?
The following are skills used in family-school collaboration. Fill in the missing one:
Skill 1: Understanding yourself, your personal reactions, and attitudes.
Skill 2:
Skill 3: Reaching out and communicating
Skill 4: Understanding and appreciating family diversity.
Skill 5: Building in opportunities for positive non problematic family-school interaction.
Skill 6: Creating active and co-decision-making roles in planning problem solving and accessing needed services.
What is understanding and valuing family community strengths?
Placing an emphasis on working within the dominant culture to achieve one's personal and professional goals.
What is assimilation?
Fill in the blank: The enemy is __________.
What is negativity?
A "no-fault" parent-teacher conference format in which both parents and students are invited to play an active, co-expert role with teachers.
What is family-school problem-solving conference?
T/F: The come when called model refers to the philosophy of family-school relations.
True.
T/F: The word partnership refers to a relationship that involves close cooperation between people who have joint rights and responsibilities.
True.
T/F: Children who may be talkative and precocious at home may be shy and unresponsive in the classroom.
True.
The people who drain your energy.
What are Energy Vampires?
Which of the following is not a new practice that educators enforce to build more culturally responsive relationships with students and their families?
a) Build on students' and families' funds of knowledge
b) Share the role of expert with families
c) Practice no-fault problem solving
d) Create teacher-led conferences
What is d?
Which of the following is not one of Swap's four distinctive philosophies of family-school relations held by educators:
a) protective philosophy
b) school-to-home transmission philosophy
c) curriculum philosophy
d) individual philosophy
What is d?
Relatively enduring quality of the internal environment of an organization that a) is experienced by its members, b) influences their behavior and shapes how they relate to one another, and c) can be described in terms of the values of a particular set of characteristics of the organization in terms of the values of a particular set of characteristics of the organization.
What is organizational climate?
What does COPLA stand for?
Comite de Padres Latinos.
Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride.
What is Rule #7?
What are some barriers that make it difficult for children to succeed academically?
Living in a different community, culture, income or social class, and lack of parent involvement.
What are theoretical traditions discussed in the collaboration paradigm?
What is Ecological System Theory and Vygotsky's learning theory?
What is the social system as defined in chapter 5?
The patterned ways in which school staff, family members, and students relate with with one another.
It is a literature-based moral development program that uses family homework activities to connect home culture with school culture by drawing on family experiences.
What is the bus driver's name?
Joy.