Vocab 1
A family created by the coming together of previously existing families or parts of them
What is a blended family?
A written plan for providing special intervention services for children under the age of three with disabilities, which includes the family as a primary participant.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Plan)?
This is the type of parent who fails to provide clear and firm guidance about appropriate behavior to their child allowing inappropriate amount of power to regulate their own lives.
What is permissive?
See p. 71
Percent of Americans from white, non-hispanic backrounds:
38, 64, 81, 96
What is 64%?
One of Joyce Epstein's 6 types of family involvement is Collaborating with the Community?
True
See p. 87
Do you remember the 5 others?
State of being varied , as by family structure, race, religion, socioeconomic class, language, ethnic background, etc.
What is diversity?
Specific attempts to offer knowledge and support to parents in hopes of increasing parenting effectiveness.
What is parent education?
What is the number one barrier to why parents as why parents say they did/do not participate in their children's school setting.
What is not having enough time?
See page 131.
Do you know what is second?
About what percentage of children under age 18 live with both parents according to 2011 census?
77, 25, 64, 91
What is 64%?
See page 31
Generally newsletters are considered a type of two-way communication.
What is false?
Chapter 8
One who defends or espouses a cause
What is an advocate?
Feelings of sadness and discomfort experienced by children and adults when apart from one another. Most common under four years of age.
What is separation anxiety?
What affects more than 22% of our children and makes the United States a shocking leader in the percentage of poor children in the world?
What is poverty?
See page 33
About what percent of marriages are predicted to end in divorce that are begun today?
one-fifth, one-half, one-third, one-eighth
What is one-half?
See page 31
Avoiding technical jargon and terminology is an important point to remember at conference time.
What is true?
Requiring complete obedience to authority
What is authoritarian?
Impaired in function.
What is dysfunctional?
Name 2 of 6 attitudes or ideas of teachers that are good in forming partnerships with families?
What are professionalism, sense of self, humility, compassion, respect for others, and trustworthiness?
See page 153 and section.
For adult workers, the average work week is nearly how many hours per week?
47, 51, 40, 35
What is 47 hours?
See p. 43
Even higher for professionals!
An important first step in planning parent meetings is to create a parent survey.
What is true?
See Chapter 11.
An authoritative order or command; something that must be done
What is a mandate?
Keeping others away from the child-either physically or by subtle interference.
What is gatekeeping?
Which country was shown on a diagram in our book showing 50 weeks of government-funded maternity while the US has 0 weeks at the time this book was published, but I believe has changed some in places today?
What is Canada?
Norway is a close second at 44 weeks.
See page. 63
By age 3, the average child from professional families had a vocabulary of how many works?
Must be with 100.
What is 1,100?
See page 93
Working class 750
Welfare class 500
In general, primary grade children show the most dramatic symptoms with separation and divorce.
What is false?
see p. 368