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Module Objectives
In this module, you will:
- Reflect on your family’s history of communicating with teachers and school staff
- Brainstorm ways to communicate with families who have infants that foster engagement and build partnership\
- Analyze negotiating with families
Assignment #1: Reflecting on Communicating with Families
This assignment has 2 parts:
Part 1: Go to Flip Grid (https://flipgrid.com/7383d365 your username is your first name as it appears on CUNY First) and answer the following questions:
- What is your ideal vacation spot? Why?
- What is your favorite musical group? Why?
- Who is the person you would like to meet most in the world (living or not)? Why?
- What is your favorite way to relax and unwind? Why?
- How is your semester going so far? Why?
Part 2: Reflect on and answer the questions below:
- What are the methods that your teachers (pre-K to high school) and school staff used to communicate with your family?
- Which methods were most effective? Why? Which methods were least effective? Why?
- What are examples of shared decision making your teachers (pre-K through high school) and school staff engaged in with your family?
- What could your teachers and school staff have done differently to engage in shared decision making with your family?
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Assignment #2: Communicating with Families in Practice
Read Keyser (2017)
Keyser (2017)Watch TAPS: Partnership with Families Part 4 (2012); complete this handout as you watch the video
After reading Keyser (2017) and watching TAPS: Partnership with Families Part 4, answer the questions below, using evidence from both the reading and video:
- How should infant teachers communicate with families with infants to engage and build partnerships with the families? Why?
- How is the conversation Rukmini had with the family similar to conversations your family had with your teachers/ school staff? How is it different?
- Is negotiation important when working with families of infants? Why?
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