Empowering Family-Teacher Partnerships: Building Connections Within Diverse Communities - Softcover

Coleman, Mick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141299232X ISBN 13: 9781412992329

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

 

Empowering Family-Teacher Partnerships: Building Connections Within Diverse Communities prepares students to work collaboratively with families and community professionals in support of children's early education and development. Students are invited to develop a personal philosophy of family involvement to guide their work with families and to join a community of learners in relying upon their collective insights and problem-solving skills to address family involvement challenges.

prepares students to work collaboratively with families and community professionals in support of children's early education and development. Students are invited to develop a personal philosophy of family involvement to guide their work with families and to join a community of learners in relying upon their collective insights and problem-solving skills to address family involvement challenges.

 

The author takes a student-centered approach to delivering substantive information and framing activities, providing:

(a) comprehensive coverage of the diversity of family lives represented in classrooms and strategies for working with those families;

- challenges to family involvement and strategies for addressing them;

- strategies for communicating effectively with and empowering families, and

- reflections, activities, tip boxes, and field assignments designed to facilitate students' skills in building positive family-school-community partnerships.

About this title

Review:

"I am very likely to adopt this book for a course. Its informational, clear, pedagogical features are many and relevant to what students need to know." (Alice E. Moss 2011-09-29)

About the Author:

Mick Coleman (Ph.D., The University of Georgia), Professor at The University of Georgia, retired from the Department of Human Development and Family Science in 2012.  Dr. Coleman's book originated from his involvement in an interdisciplinary teacher training program at the University of Georgia. His duties in this program included teaching the course "Families, Schools and Communities" and supervising student teachers in the public schools. Dr. Coleman has published journal articles, books and training manuals related to family-teacher partnerships.  He has also made presentations on this topic at regional, national and international meetings.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 141299232X
• ISBN 13: 9781412992329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416