After watching the video TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 3, answer the following questions:

1. What is the main cause of differences and tensions with families?
2. What can infant/ toddler professionals do about these tensions?
3. Why do families make “unreasonable requests” of staff and programs?
4. How can staff work with families when those requests are made?
5. What can be done when tensions between families and staff become conflicts?
6. How does this video relate to the Gillespie (2006) reading? Make specific connections, identifying the page number.

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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:

1. 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.
2. What quote(s) was most meaningful to you? (identify the page number) Why?
3. How does this reading connect to your personal experience?
4. Which of the strategies teachers find useful to creating respectful and productive partnerships with families do you feel is most important? Why?
5. Based on the strategies teachers find useful to creating respectful and productive partnerships with families how would you work with Pilar? Jason’s family
6. How will this reading help you become a better infant/ toddler professional?

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