Parent and Families

Parents and Families
Student affairs serves as a bridge between students and their families, providing services and programming that help families transition to having a college student. Student affairs departments exist to help students flourish at their higher education institution, and families can play a pivotal role in enhancing a students ability to succeed. More than that, student affairs professionals and the institution they represent are trusted by families to care for their children as they transition into adulthood and out of their homes.
Allocate at least 8 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Interview two professional staff members whose responsibilities include engaging parents and families and ask the following questions:
What methods and programming have you found to be most and least effective in engaging families?
What challenges do student affairs professionals encounter as they interact with families?
What legal and ethical considerations should be in place when interacting with families?
How can parent involvement help student affairs professionals and the students they serve be more successful?
Spend any remaining field experience hours observing and assisting your site supervisor.
Following your interviews and observations, write a 500-750 word summary that reflects upon the following:
What methods of engagement and programming would you be most likely to apply in the future? What makes these methods or programming so appealing?
How will you ensure you operate within legal and ethical parameters to both serve families and protect the students they represent, all within the public arena with compassion, justice, and concern for the common good?
Based on your experience, what opportunities will you have to strategically use parents and families to improve the student experience and achieve student affairs objectives?
What aspects of interacting with families do you think will be most challenging for you?
Rubric: Clinical Field Experience A: Parents and Families
Methods of Engagement and Programming
20.0
Not addressed.
Insufficiently outlines the methods of engagement and programming that would most likely be applied in the future. Poorly explains what makes these methods or programming so appealing.
Unclearly outlines the methods of engagement and programming that would most likely be applied in the future. Partially explains what makes these methods or programming so appealing.
Clearly outlines the methods of engagement and programming that would most likely be applied in the future. Reasonably explains what makes these methods or programming so appealing.
Thoroughly outlines the methods of engagement and programming that would most likely be applied in the future. Realistically explains what makes these methods or programming so appealing.
Legal and Ethical Parameters
20.0
Not addressed.
Inadequately includes how to operate within legal and ethical parameters that both serve families and protect the students they represent all within the public arena with compassion, justice, and concern for the common good.
Vaguely includes how to operate within legal and ethical parameters that serve families and protect the students they represent all within the public arena with compassion, justice, and concern for the common good.
Significantly articulates how to operate within legal and ethical parameters that both serve families and protect the students they represent all within the public arena with compassion, justice, and concern for the common good.
Professionally articulates how to operate within legal and ethical parameters that both serve families and protect the students they represent all within the public arena with compassion, justice, and concern for the common good.
Utilizing Parents and Families
20.0
Not addressed.
Ineffectively explains where there are opportunities to strategically utilize parents and families to improve student experience and achieve student affairs objectives.
Somewhat explains where there are opportunities to strategically utilize parents and families to improve student experience and achieve student affairs objectives.
Effectively explains where there are opportunities to strategically utilize parents and families to improve student experience and achieve student affairs objectives.
Expertly explains where there are opportunities to strategically utilize parents and families to improve student experience and achieve student affairs objectives.
Challenges
20.0
Not addressed.
The aspects of interacting with families that will be most challenging are flawed or unrelated.
The aspects of interacting with families that will be most challenging are lacking detail and weak.
The aspects of interacting with families that will be most challenging are descriptive and detailed.
The aspects of interacting with families that will be most challenging are well-crafted and meaningful.
Organization
10.0
Not addressed.
An attempt is made to organize the content, but the sequence is indiscernible. The ideas presented are compartmentalized and may not relate to each other; or the summary is widely outside of the required word count.
The content is not adequately organized even though it provides the audience with a sense of the main idea. The summary may not be within a reasonable range of the required word count.
The content is logically organized. The ideas presented relate to each other. The content provides the audience with a clear sense of the main idea. The summary is within a reasonable range of the required word count.
The content is well-organized and logical. There is a sequential progression of ideas that relate to each other. The content is presented as a cohesive unit and provides the audience with a clear sense of the main idea. The summary is within the required word count.
Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, and language use)
10.0
Not addressed.
Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice and/or sentence construction are used.
Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register) and/or word choice are present.
Submission includes some mechanical errors, but they do not hinder comprehension. Varieties of effective sentence structures are used, as well as some practice and content-related language.
Submission is virtually free of mechanical errors. Word choice reflects well-developed use of practice and content-related language. Sentence structures are varied and engaging.
Total Percentage 100

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