Communication Strategies
When someone uses the following questions: “You seem to be saying this…. Is that correct?” or “Now that you have shared this, are there ways I can help?” They are using what type of communication strategy?
What is active listening?
When staff members come together as a community of learners, they create a mutually supportive environment for continuous learning and improvement.
What is Professional Development?
Program staff and families build ongoing, reciprocal, and respectful relationships.
What are Family Partnerships?
Families are safe, healthy, have opportunities for educational advancement and economic mobility, and have access to physical and mental health services, housing and food assistance, and other family support services.
What is Family Well-being?
When someone use the following question: What might happen if you make this change? They are using what type of communication strategy?
What is an open ended question?
Head Start and Early Head Start program leadership, staff, and families are committed to using data to improve family engagement practices on a continuous basis.
What is Continuous Learning and Quality Improvement?
Head Start and Early Head Start, child care programs, and community organizations build collaborative relationships that support positive child and family outcomes.
What are Community Partnerships?
The number of Family Outcomes on the PFCE framework.
What is seven?
When someone uses the following statement: "Let me see if I understand this so far…" They are using what type of communication strategy?
What is Summarizing?
Head Start and Early Head Start program directors and other leaders, managers, and parent leaders set expectations and model effective PFCE practice.
What is Program Leadership?
Features of the program and its physical setting that affect the interactions and relationships that families and staff experience.
What is the Program Environment?
Parents and families observe, guide, promote, and participate in the everyday learning of their children at home, at school, and in their communities.
What is Families as Lifelong Educators?
When someone uses the following question: "Would it be okay if we talked about [tooth brushing, follow-up dental visits, your child’s nutrition, your child’s attendance]?" They are using what type of communication strategy?
What is Soliciting Permission?
They monitor activities in all of the Program Foundations and Program Impact Areas and make changes when needed to ensure that they are mutually reinforcing
What is Program Leadership?
Within Head Start and Early Head Start eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) procedures are developed by using community assessment data and engaging former and currently enrolled families, staff, and community members.
What is Access and Continuity?
Parents and families advocate for their children and play leadership roles in Head Start and Early Head Start. They participate in decision-making, policy development, and organizing activities in communities and states to improve children’s safety, health, development, and learning experiences.
What is Families as Advocates and Leaders?
When someone uses the following question: - Would you like to hear more about tooth brushing and its benefits? They are using what type of communication strategy?
What is Soliciting Permission?
Program leaders seek out opportunities to use their program data to inform local and state planning and policy decisions. They monitor their own progress toward PFCE outcomes and periodically refine plans and actions.
What is Continuous Learning and Quality Improvement?
Families and staff work together to promote children’s learning, development, and school readiness.
What is Teaching and Learning?
Parents and families learn about their child’s personality, development, and learning style. They also advance their own learning interests through education, training, and other experiences that support their parenting, careers, and life goals.
What is Families as Learners?