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Weekly Module 15: Partnering with Families Applications Post (Video)
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?
Respond to 2 other threads!
Complete your End-of-Semester Survey on Blackboard!
TOUCHING BASE POST (Extra Credit)
These touching base posts will allow us to continue the community we created in our face-to-face ECE 209-L class. Share as much as you feel comfortable sharing. I will offer extra credit for completing these posts. You will receive:
- 1/2 point of extra credit for responding to this post
- 1/4 point for responding to 2 other posts (1/2 point for responding to 2 responses).
Questions for this touching base post:
- How are your doing?
- What are your reflections about this semester?
- How have you grown this semester?
- What have you learned about yourself this semester?
Weekly Module 15: Partnering with Families Readings Post
In this module you will:
- Evaluate the role of social power and social influence when working with families of infants and toddlers
- Analyze situations to determine how to share power with families
- Complete the End-of-Semester survey
After reading Allard & Hancok (2015), answer the following questions:
- Summarize the main idea, key details, and what you learned from the reading in 4-6 sentences in your own words. Use key terms and vocabulary from the text.
- What quote(s) was most meaningful to you? (identify the page number) Why?
- How does this reading connect to your personal experience?
- Why is it important to be aware of social power and social influence when working with families of infants and toddlers?
- What impact could culture have on social power and social influence?
- Which vignette from the article do you think most demonstrated the staff empowering the family? Why?
- How will this reading help you be a better infant-toddler professional?
Respond to 2 other posts!
Complete your End-of-Semester Survey on Blackboard!
Allred-Hancock-2015Weekly Module 14: Applications Post 2 (Site Visit Recap)
Think about your site visit, and answer the following the questions:
- What did you gain from your site visit?
- What struck you from your visit? Why?
- What was most meaningful about your visit? Why?
- How will your visit help you be a better infant-toddler professional?
Respond to 2 other posts!
Weekly Module 14: When Conflicts Arise Applications Post 1 (Video)
After watching the video TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 3, answer the following questions:
- What is the main cause of differences and tensions with families?
- What can infant/ toddler professionals do about these tensions?
- Why do families make “unreasonable requests” of staff and programs?
- How can staff work with families when those requests are made?
- What can be done when tensions between families and staff become conflicts?
- How does this video relate to the Gillespie (2006) reading? Make specific connections, identifying the page number.
Weekly Module 14: When Conflicts Arise Readings Post
In this module you will:
- Analyze strategies to use to create partnerships with families
- Identify strategies to use when faced with differences and tensions with families
- Explore what to do when tensions with families become conflicts
After reading Gillespie (2006), answer the following questions:
- Summarize the main idea, key details, and what you learned from the readings in 4 – 6 sentences in your own words. Use key terms and vocabulary from the text.
- What quote(s) was most meaningful to you? (identify the page number) Why?
- How does this reading connect to your personal experience?
- Which of the strategies teachers find useful to creating respectful and productive partnerships with families do you feel is most important? Why?
- Based on the strategies teachers find useful to creating respectful and productive partnerships with families how would you work with Pilar? Jason’s family
- How will this reading help you become a better infant/ toddler professional?
Respond to 2 other posts!
Gillespie2006Touching Base Post (Extra Credit)
These touching base posts will allow us to continue the community we created in our face-to-face ECE 209-L class. Share as much as you feel comfortable sharing. I will offer extra credit for completing these posts. You will receive:
- 1/2 point of extra credit for responding to this post
- 1/4 point for responding to 2 other posts (1/2 point for responding to 2 responses).
Questions for this touching base post:
- How are you doing?
- How do you take care of yourself during stressful times, like this?
- What are ways you can provide comfort and restoration to yourself when things are difficult?
Weekly Module 13: Rituals and Routines with Families Applications Post (Video)
After watching the TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 2 answer the following the questions:
- Summarize what you learned from watching the TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 2 video.
- What practice discussed do you think is most important for welcoming families? Why?
- Janani said families are the expert on their child. What can programs do to support families as experts on their child?
- Why are arrivals and departures important to welcoming families?
- How does this video relate to the Goldsmith & Theilheimer (2015) reading? Make specific connections, identifying the page number.
- How does this video relate to the second reading you picked (Block, 2014 or Peterson, 2012)? Make specific connections, identifying the page number.
Respond to 2 other posts!
Weekly Module 13: Rituals & Routines with Families Readings Post
In this module you will:
- Identify rituals and practices to help infants and families transition into a program
- Analyze the importance of phase-in and separation for infants, toddlers, and families
- Critique principles centers use during phase-in
After reading Goldsmith & Theilhiemer (2015) AND Block (2014) or Gillispie & Peterson (2014) answer the following questions:
- What was the second reading you chose?
- Summarize the main idea, key details, and what you learned from the readings in 4-6 sentences in your own words. Use key terms and vocabulary from the text.
- What quote(s) was most meaningful to you? (identify the page number) Why?
- How do these readings connect to your personal experience?
- How do infants, families, and staff benefit from phase-in?
- Which guiding principle infant centers consider when infants enter their program do you think is most important? Why?
- How will these reading make you a better infant-toddler professional?
- How does the Goldsmith & Theilheimer (2015) article connect to the other reading you did (Block, 2014 or Gillespie & Peterson, 2012)? Identify specific connections.
Respond to 2 other posts
TOUCHING BASE POST (Extra Credit)
These touching base posts will allow us to continue the community we created in our face-to-face ECE 209-L class. Share as much as you feel comfortable sharing. I will offer extra credit for completing these posts. You will receive:
- 1/2 point of extra credit for responding to this post
- 1/4 point for responding to 2 other posts (1/2 point for responding to 2 responses).
Questions for this touching base post:
- How are you doing?
- What conditions are feeling challenging now?
- What is contributing to the stress?
- How are you managing the situations?
