EDUC 433 - Family Partnerships and Community Connections

5 Credits

Successful early childhood education depends on partnerships with children’s families and communities. In this class, explore the importance of and complex characteristics of children’s families and communities. Learn to create respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families, and to involve all families in their children’s development and learning.

Pre-requisite(s) EDUC& 115, EDUC& 130, ECED& 160, EDUC& 204,  and EDUC 240 with min. 2.0
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Winter Evening
Designed to Serve BAS in Teaching and Early Learning students focused on children birth to 5 and their families.
Active Date 20200330T21:15:07

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
PLA Eligible Yes

Course Outline

Identity analysis - what are the sociological factors influencing children and families? What are our own identities?
Communication and relationship strategies.
Seeing families as a resource for children’s development. What are all of our roles?
Cross cultural communication and problem solving.
Engaging the community. What resources are available? When to refer families?

Student Learning Outcomes
Discuss theoretical perspectives and research about the factors that impact children's lives including race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, socioeconomics, language, religion, etc.

Describe a collaborative approach to child/family development, incorporating respectful and reciprocal engagement and relationship strategies.

Research and engage with community resources that are developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropropriate.

Show ability to sensitively negotiate potential conflicts between families’ preferences and cultures and the setting’s practices and policies related to health, safety and developmentally appropriate practices.

Demonstrate strategies to sucessfully engage families as partners for insight into their children for curriculum, program development, and assessment; and as partners in planning for children’s transitions to new programs.