Assignment task:
Early childhood leaders who understand the value of building strong partnerships with families will create a strong home-school partnership that is best practice in the early childhood classroom. Teachers who create meaningful reciprocal relationships that support families empower parents to advocate for their children. These family professional partnerships are important because not only do they promote children's learning, but they also build on effective strategies that lead to meaningful parent-teacher conferences (Wortham & Hardin, 2020).
In this discussion forum you will upload a new mock conference demonstrating your awareness of the best practices learned this week in communicating with families.
In this new mock conference, you will
- Make sure that you use all seven principles of strong partnerships to improve your assignment.
- You will also make sure that you highlight NAEYC Standard 2, Building Family and Community Relationships:
a: Knowing about and understanding diverse family and community characteristics (NAEYC, n.d.-c)
b: Supporting and engaging families and communities through respectful, reciprocal relationships (NAEYC, n.d.-c)
c: Involving families and communities in their children's development and learning (NAEYC, n.d.-c)
At the end of your mock conference, you must reflect on the two assignments. Do you see a difference in your two assignments? What is the most remarkable difference between them? What is one skill you will use in your practice with families?