What did you learn about communicating with families?

Assignment: Class 8
Complete the following assignment, making connections to what you have learned this week. Refer to the grading rubric in the Course Information section of Blackboard:
Watch the CONNECT video (ABOVE) for information about a home visit. Submit the following:
What did you learn about communicating with families?
How will you apply it if you were to conduct a visit at the home of your focus child?
How would you gather background information about the child ? How could you find out about what they would like to know more about child development?
Use appropriate strategies to communicate with the parent/s. Submit the following:
What strategies would you use to communicate with the parent/s?
How do you feel about your ability to conduct the home visit?
How about conducting a workshop on their identified topic?
How would you go about researching the topic?
Review in the Assessment folder the Family Workshop.
I will send an email with instructions on completing and video recording your workshop. The first thing you need to do is identify a family that you know who has a child – prenatal to age 8. This family must be willing to have you present AND record a 15 minute workshop on a topic of their choice. You may have to help them identify a topic, but make sure the topic is one that is of their need / s. Good luck!
**Video: Clara, a practitioner, makes an initial home visit with a mother and describes how to begin a family-professional partnership, especially working with families from different cultural backgrounds.
(running time: 2 min. 37 sec.)
CONNECT – The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge. (2010). Starting a relationship. (CONNECT videos). Retrieved from community.fpg.unc.edu/connect-modules/resources/videos/video-4-4
Submit your Assignment using the assignment link above.
Assignment
Reflection Essay:

Journal 8
After you have completed all the assignments for this class, use the following guiding questions and reflect on what you have learned. The questions are designed to address the guidelines at the top of the Journal form (parts A and B). Fill out the Journal form and submit. Refer to the grading rubric in the Course Information section of Blackboard:
Click on the following link to access Four Levels of Listening . Read the handout and explain each level of listening in your own words. What are the benefits of using level 4 listening with children? With families? With colleagues?
Observe your own communication with others – children or adults – this week, and identify the level/s of listening that you engaged in. Include at least two of your example/s here.
Observe other teachers / parents engaged in conversations at your work site (or at home) and try to identify the level/s of listening that they engaged in. Include at least two of their examples here.
Which levels did you observe the most often this week? Which were the hardest to find? What could be the reason behind this?
What is your own ability for listening? What is your next step for continued progress in this area? How will you have that happen?
Which Student Outcome of Standard 6/ELL does this journal support? How? Read the statements and make a link to the outcome that matches most closely.
Submit your Journal using the journal link above

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