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Examples of Interview or Family Survey Questions Questions about the Child Questions about the Family What are your child’s favorite activities? What are your child’s least favorite activities? Who does your child like to play with? What are your child’s food preferences? Does your child have any particular fears? Does your child enjoy being read […]

Learning About and Connecting with Families There are several useful strategies you can use to begin gathering information to help you connect your curriculum with the children and their families. In this section we will consider three: (1) questionnaires and interviews, (2) family mapping, and (3) storytelling. Asking parents to complete an informational questionnaire or

Antibias Curriculum Further support for these perspectives comes from the antibias curriculum guidelines developed by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards (2010). The premise of antibias curriculum is that a central focus of our work should be “to support children’s full development in our multiracial, multilingual, multicultural world and to give them the tools to

Families as Primary Curriculum Resources If you reach out to the families in your classroom, you will find that they enrich your curriculum tremendously. Every group of children brings a host of familial language, cultural, occupational, and personal knowledge that, when combined, forms a unique community in ways both obvious and subtle. Luis Moll and

Sending the Curriculum Home Inventive teachers also employ practical strategies to directly extend children’s curriculum activities from school to home. Academic homework is inappropriate for young children. But you could, for example, create a “traveling suitcase” or book bag (Gestwicki, 2004) with items that a child might not have at home but that the family

Planned Events That Engage Families More From the Field Preschool teacher Sonia Sandoval describes the importance of honoring different types of families, and of being inclusive when celebrating families’ traditions and cultures. Critical Thinking Question How will you help ensure that all families feel included in all aspects of the classroom and program? Events provide

Providing Access to Curriculum Resources First, parents should be able to see printed information about the curriculum and relevant books, articles, or other references they can read or review at any time. If a purchased curriculum is being used, samples of teacher resource books, printed assessment materials, and examples of print materials that children use

Informational and Interactive Events and Programs More From the Field Administrators work hard to help parents feel involved and connected in their child’s education. Preschool director Lynda Way talks about how to determine in which decisions parents can be involved and which they should not. Critical Thinking Questions Do you agree with Lynda’s position? Why

Do you agree with Lynda’s position? More From the Field Administrators work hard to help parents feel involved and connected in their child’s education. Preschool director Lynda Way talks about how to determine in which decisions parents can be involved and which they should not. Critical Thinking Questions Do you agree with Lynda’s position? Why

Informational and Interactive Events and Programs More From the Field Administrators work hard to help parents feel involved and connected in their child’s education. Preschool director Lynda Way talks about how to determine in which decisions parents can be involved and which they should not. Critical Thinking Questions Do you agree with Lynda’s position? Why