After watching the video TAPS Partnerships with Families, Part 5, post your answer to the following questions:
- How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power sharing or empowering a family?
- What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families?
- Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families?
- What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do your think is most important for developing partnerships with families?
- Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why?
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How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power sharing or empowering a family? It connects the children experience outside the daycare with families to inside the daycare. The parents, children, and teacher are able to communicate, share, and exchange experiences. Teacher furthers learning by suggesting a lesson plan surrounding the child’s experience.
What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families? Coordination support, Open honest communication, managing feelings, empathy, keeping an open mind, flexibility, actively listening, and shared philosophy.
Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families? It helps grow your service when having reflective experiences. Visual mandalas can be used to show dreams and aspirations of the children, families, and teachers that even can contribute to. This shows families that there is a common goal and strengthens partnerships when those goals are met.
What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do your think is most important for developing partnerships with families? Professional development in training, staying connected to families, providing a welcoming environment, having respect for families, and making sure the programs has cultural representatives.
Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why? Strong attachments with families are just important as strong attachments with the children. Strong attachments to families are essential to building trust with families. It also strengthens partnerships between teachers and families.
Hey Deborah, I really enjoyed reading your responses. I agree with you that “Strong attachments with families are just important as a strong attachments with the children” , this is totally true and a very important aspect when working with children.
Agree, Well detailed answers
I like your answer to the last question. I believe it is important to develop strong relationships with the families
1). How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power sharing or empowering a family? The drop-off scene video demonstrates power sharing and empowerment by having an active communication between the teacher and the father and later on the child as well. When the father drops off the child, him and the teacher communicate about what the child has done on the weekend and the food that he has to eat that day.
2). What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families? Some skills, qualities and supports that are mentioned in the video are empathy, respectful and open minded is a very big factor to a starting point in order to have that partnership with families. Everyone has different values and beliefs and so it is also very important to have an open mind. Shared philosophy is also an important one in order to work toward the common goal.
3). Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families? Reflective practices and thinking about a family and your interactions with the family are very important to partnering with families because when you are open minded and understanding when working with families it creates a healthy relationship which is very important when working with children. When you have healthy communication with families then you are able to partner with them and be able to communicate important things about the child because at the end of the day we all want what’s best for the child and their needs.
4). What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do you think is most important for developing partnerships with families? Rukmini mentions professional development and training and making sure you stay connected with the families in many ways through emails or any opportunities you have to respect the families that come to your service. Have an open mind when you are welcoming them. Provide a welcoming atmosphere and have cultural representatives.
5). Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why? I definitely agree with Anne, when working with children it is very important to develop strong attachments relationships with families because in order to support the child’s learning we need to create a trustful relationship with families and work towards creating that bond which makes it a partnership. When working with children it is very important to be able to communicate to families in order to be able to collect the important information we need to be able to fulfill the child’s best interest and their needs and wants. Families can be our best source into gathering those important information about the children we work with in order for us to make sure we are doing the best that we can to do what is absolutely the best for the child.
Edisa, I like how mentioned the importance of attachments. I agree strong attachment are key and without trust it will be difficult to form those strong attachments with families and children.
Hey Edisa, I like and agree with you answer to question 4. It’s always important to have an open mind all the time.
1. How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power sharing or empowering a family? This video demonstrates empowerment and power-sharing through communication between teacher and father, as well as the child. The teacher and father communicate about what the child did during the weekend as well as the food the child as to eat when the father drops them off.
2. What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/toddler professionals to partner with families? This includes open honest communication which is important if you want the relationship between professional, child, and parent to progress, empathy, managing feelings, being open-minded which is another key to having a positive relationship with families if your understanding in stressful or tense situations, active listening, and flexibility.
3. Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families? It helps grow your service when having reflective experiences. When you are open minded and understanding while working with families a positive, healthy relationship which is very important when working with children. When you have positive communication with families, you are able to partner with them and communicate back and forth important things about the child.
4. What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do you think is most important for developing partnerships with families? Professional development in training, staying connected to families, providing a welcoming environment, having respect for families, and making sure the programs has cultural representatives. Have an open mind when welcoming them and provide a warm and friendly atmosphere for them to make them feel welcome and accepted.
5. Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why? I do agree. Anne states that is is important to develop strong relationships with families because there needs to be a trustful relationship created in order for the child’s learning to be supported. It is very important to be able to communicate to families in order to be able to collect the important information we need when working with children, in order to successfully meet the child’s needs and wants. As caregivers and professionals, it’s our job to create strong relationships between families because it’s one of the key components to receiving important information that helps us determine what is best for the child.
Hey Cachoeira, I like how you responded to all of the questions. I definitely agree that creating a good relationship and partnership with families it is really important, because not only will it benefit the child but also families will feel more comfortable when leaving their child with you and your work experience will be much more fun.
I agree that it is important to develop positive communication relationship with the family
This video demonstrates communication between the teacher and parent and the child. The teacher and parent communicate about the child.
Communication is important if you want the relationship between professional, child, and parent to progress and being open-minded to their opions/concerns which is key to having a positive relationship with families.
When you are understanding while working with families and you have positive communication with the family you are able to communicate back and forth smoothly with them regarding things about the child.
Have an open mind and postive attitude when welcoming them while providing a warm and friendly enviorment for them to make them feel welcome.
I agree, Anne states that is is important to develop strong relationships with families because there needs to be a trustful relationship created in order for the child’s learning to be supported. I think its very important to maintain a postive communication system/relationship with the families and allow them to share any concerns and feedbacks they may have.
yes, having a positive communication can help both family and caregivers to speak about the care of the child.
1. How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power sharing or empowering a family? It shows communication between the two and also the child which is important.
2. What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families? I believe that the most important skill for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families is communication and being open minded.
3. Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families? This creates a healthy relationship which is very important because you would want to understand the family and child. Everyone only wants what’s best for the child.
4. What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do your think is most important for developing partnerships with families? To always be open minded no matter what, having respect for the families, staying connecting, and making sure they feel welcome.
5. Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why? I think it is important to develop a strong attachment relationships with families because if you don’t, then you have no communication at all with each other, and you won’t know things about the child that you might need to know. Everyone wants the child to success and the only way for that to work is if the families and caregivers work together and see what’s best for the child.
I agree Solanny, communication and being open minded is really important when partnering with families.
Agreed, creating healthy relationships with families benefit on both sides parent and caregiver.
1. How does the drop-off scene in the video demonstrate power-sharing or empowering a family?
The drop-off scene demonstrates power-sharing a family because of the parent and caregiver exchange experience and parent offers fruit. When Janani speaks to the toddler the parent is in the room and when the caregiver asks something to the toddler, the parent explains in-depth what happened and the caregiver lets the parent speak comfortably and it shows the respect between them.
2. What skills, qualities, and supports that Janani and Rukmini discuss do you feel are most important for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families?
Coordination support and having workshops that can help caregivers in their care, becoming mentors when there are conflicts.
Open and honest communication and have active listening, empathy and having a shared philosophy with families (one common goal)
3. Why would reflective practice, or thinking about a family and your interactions with the family, be important to partnering and empowering with families?
Because it’s a great way to reflect on the service we give and how we can improve on it and help provide the best care.
4. What advice that Rukmini and Janani offer do your think is most important for developing partnerships with families?
Professional development training and respecting families. Also, having culture be seen in the care center that invites.
5. Anne mentions that when working with families of young children it is important to develop strong attachment relationships with families? Do you agree? Why?
I agree because sometimes having those strong relationships could leave an impact on the family and it shows that the caregiver genuinely cares for the family and there is a equal balance of power on each side.
I also agree with your #5. I like your response
1. This video demonstrates empowerment and power-sharing through communication between teacher and father, as well as the child.
2. I believe that the most important skill for infant/ toddler professionals to partner with families is communication and being open minded.
3. When you have positive communication with families, you are able to partner with them and communicate back and forth important things about the child. It’s a great way to reflect on the service we give and how we can improve on it and help provide the best care.
4. Professional development in training, staying connected to families, providing a welcoming environment, having respect for families, and making sure the programs has cultural representatives.
5. I definitely agree with Anne, when working with children it is very important to develop strong attachments relationships with families because in order to support the child’s learning we need to create a trustful relationship with families and work towards creating that bond which makes it a partnership.
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