Module Objectives

In this module you will:

• Explore creating partnerships with families
• Evaluate the role social power has when working with families of infants
• Analyze how to use social power responsibility

Activity #1: What Does it Mean to Partner with Families?

Complete this handout as you:

• • Read Allred & Hancock (2015)
  • Watch TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 5 (2012)

 

Link to Allred & Hancock (2015)

Allred & Hancock (2015)

 

Watch the video TAPS Partnerships with Families: Part 5 (2012)

 

Activity #2: Best Practices for Working with Families who have Infants 

What are the best practices for working with families who have infants from the reading in this module?  Identify your source (reading or video) as you develop the list.

Your reading may have described families of older children; how can you apply the information to families who have infants?

CLICK THIS LINK TO POST YOUR BEST PRACTICES

Activity #2: REVIEW Best Practices for Working with Families Who Have Infants Final Project

Review the Best Practices for Working with Families Who Have Infants Project. The project is due Week 16. Bring your questions to our learning community session.

At the end of the semester, you will share what you have learned with colleagues in the field. Review your weekly posts for key themes and important elements for working with families who have infants. You can identify how you would like to share what you have learned with other infant teachers – you can write a letter, create a presentation using Google Slides/ PowerPoint, produce a graphic, craft a song, develop a poem, or use another medium to share what you have learned.

Follow the steps below to create your Best Practices for Working with Families Who Have Infants Final Project:

1. Review your Best Practices for Working with Families Who Have Infants Posts from each module.
2. Make a list of the best practices you identify in each module.
3. Reflect on how the best practices you identified connect to each other? How would you label/ title the themes that are related (e.g. communication, relationships, etc.)?
4. Determine how you will share your best practice with other teachers you. Will you write a letter, create a presentation using Google Slides/PowerPoint, produce a graphic, craft a song, develop a poem, or use another medium to share what you have learned?
5. Include practical details and steps that infant teachers working with families can use.

Materials to Support your Best Practices for Working with Families who Have Infants Final Project

Link to Guidelines for Best Practices for working with Infants Final Project

 

Best Practices Guidelines

 

Link to Chart for Creating Best Practices for working with Infants Final Project

 

Best Practices Project Chart

 

Link to Sample Graphic Organizers