ECED 314 – Home School Relationship Presentation Summary

ECED 314 – Home School Relationship
Presentation Summary

Chapter 1 – Connecting with Families: a Nice or Necessary Practice
1.1 What is expected of the school in relation to its role of delivering knowledge?
Answer: open-minded behaviour
1.2 Who have expected to accommodate to school and follow its lead?
Answer: Parents and students
1.3 Give one definition of those parents who do not come when called?
Answer: “not caring”
1.4 What is term used for the various social and linguistic and historically accumulated bodies of knowledge essential to the community?
Answer: funds of knowledge
1.5 Who needs to examine their beliefs and their roles?
Answer: Educators
1.6 Who is in-charge of helping parents change their ways of relating with children?
Answer: educators
1.7 Who are the persons that teachers need to invite in cases where behavioural difficulties of students occur?
Answer: parents
1.8 What is the term for a situation where parents and students meet with teachers is solving classroom related problems?
Answer: parents-teacher conference
1.9 What kind of attitude do educators recognize in dealing with students and their families?
Answer: collaborative attitude
1.10 What is that necessary step for developing effective ways of reaching and teaching all students?
Answer: strong working relationship with the families of students
1.11 What are components of the philosophy of teacher-parent partnership?
Answer: (1) reach out and (2) teach students

 
Chapter 2 – From Separation to Collaboration: The Changing Paradigms of Family-School Relations

2.1 What is the term used to refer to a way of thinking, a model, a perception, assumption, or a frame of reference?
Answer: paradigm
2.2 What term used to refer to an educational paradigm that insists on the involvement of parents in their children’s education, particular those children who are economically disadvantaged?
Answer: remediation paradigm
2.3 What term used to refer to an initiative that intends to enrol all children and young people, including all those with disabilities?
Answer: zero reject
2.4 What is term used for an evaluation process that determines whether an enrolled student has a disability and, if so, the nature of special education and related services that a student requires?
Answer: non-discriminatory evaluation
2.5 What is the process that tailors the student’s education to address the students individualized needs and strengths and insures that this education benefits the students?
Answer: Appropriate education identification process
2.6 What is the concept that supports the initiative that rewards school districts and schools based on the improvement of student performance?
Answer: Accountability for result
2.7 What is the concept that supports the idea that schools need to put up security measures?
Answer: School safety
2.8 What is this concept that supports the right of parents to transfer the child to a better school?
Answer: Parental choice
2.9 What is the concept that support the idea “students achieve when they have good teachers”?
Answer: Teacher quality
2.10 What is the method that teachers are encouraged to use?
Answer: Scientifically based method of teaching

Chapter 3 – Building Culturally Responsive Family – School Partnerships: Essential Beliefs, Strategies and Skills

3.1 What is the term used for a process where educators are committed to developing positive and trusting relationship with their students’ families so that students can become confident and competent?
Answer: Creating a collaborative dyadic relationship
3.2 What is referred to as the physical and material aspect of the organizational environment?
Answer: Ecology
3.3 What is referred to as a pattered way in which school staff, family members, and students relate to one another?
Answer: Social system
3.4 What is referred to as the characteristics of persons and groups involved with the organization?
Answer: Climate of the organization
3.5 What is defined as the belief systems, values, general cognitive structure and meanings that characterize the social environment?
Answer: Culture
3.6 What is referred to as a situation where teacher, parent, and student meet together?
Answer: family-teacher-student progress conference
3.7 What is referred to as a situation where teachers first solicit everyone’s perspectives regarding their concerns?
Answer: Family-school problem-solving meeting
3.8 What is the term used to refer to an educator that creates opportunities for interaction with parents and is driven by the desire to form a positive alliance with parents?
Answer: Collaborative educators
3.9 What is referred to as the different elements that shape family members’ sense of identity like family composition, culture, economic circumstances, and religious beliefs?
Answer: Family diversity
3.10 What is the term used to refer to a process of moving from a separation or remediation paradigm to a collaborative one?
Answer: Developmental process  

Chapter 4 – From Family Deficit to Family Strength: Examining how Families Influence Children’s development and school success

4.1 What was idealized in 1950’s as an intact nuclear family headed by a breadwinner father and supported by a stay at home mother, which was normal and has a positive effect on children?
Answer: 1950 ideal family structure
4.2 What are theories that pertain to studies on how family members organize themselves to carry out important family tasks?
Answer: Family systems theory
4.3 What are the theories that pertain to studies on how various systems that families are engaged like schools, work settings, and community agencies affect children and families?
Answer: Ecological systems theory
4.4 What is the phenomenon that shows that no the same adversity has the same results in different families?
Answer: Family resilience
4.5 What is the term used to describe that parts of systems are interconnected so as to be dependent to each other for proper functioning?
Answer: Interdependence
4.6 What is the term used to describe a theory on the interactions among different levels of systems and different sectors of systems?
Answer: Ecological systems theory
4.7 What is the term used to describe the next level of ecological systems theory where the interactions involved and social relationships are between and among individuals and settings?
Answer: Mesosystem
4.8 What is the term used to describe an ecological systems theory concept that describes the context of events that affects the individual child’s immediate environment?
Answer: exosystem
4.9 What is the term used to describe the broadest level of influence and determines to a great extent, the resources, opportunities, and constraints present in the lives of children and families?
Answer: Macrosystem
4.10 What is term used to describe a system that represent the elements of time, both in the individual life trajectory and historical contexts?
Answer: Chronosystem

Chapter 5 – Understanding Family Stress and Change

5.1 Where does stress in families originate?
Answer: Stress can come from the immediate family, extended family, from the community and even from society.
5.2 What is the most common ways of relieving stress?
Answer: By sharing with others, by prioritizing responsibilities, and by not creating stressful situations
5.3 What is a complication that impedes the activities of an individual or a family?
Answer: crisis
5.4 What are stages of family crisis?
Answer: shock, recoil, depression, and reorganization
5.5 What are the common stages of family crisis?
Answer: shock, recoil, depression, and reorganization.
5.6 What is the meaning of shock?
Answer: It is a disbelief, a denial or a minimization of the event.
5.7 What is the meaning of recoil?
Answer: These are manifestations of blaming, bargaining or expressing anger to the event, to a person connected to the event, or in some cases to an unrelated party.
5.8 What the meaning of depression?
Answer: It is when anger turns into sadness.
5.9 What is the meaning of reorganization?
Answer: It is when individuals and families may have recovered from the crisis.
5.10 What are the components of family resilience?
Answer: belief system, organizational patterns, and communication.
5.11 What is the meaning of belief system?
Answer: It is the manner in which a family may reshape its values towards an event.
5.12 What is the meaning of organizational pattern in the context of family resilience?
Answer: It is when family members begin to reorganize and in some cases increase in number in order to coup with new situations.
5.13 What is the meaning of communication in the context of family resilience?
Answer: It refers to the emotional openness of each family member.
5.14 What is the best attitude of teachers towards students in difficulty?
Answer: They must reach out to students with difficult behaviour.
5.15 What should teachers do when children’s misbehaviour become unmanageable?
Answer: They should ask help from better prepared persons like guidance counsellors.

Chapter 6 – Equal Access, Unequal Resources: Appreciating Cultural, Social, and Economic Diversity in Families

6.1 What makes up a culture?
Answer: It is made up of common beliefs of a group of people which are manifested through traditions and practices.
6.2 How is culture formed?
Answer: It is a product or a result of the responses of a group of people to a common experience.
6.3 What is race?
Answer: It is a classification of human beings according to general physical characteristics, such as facial features, skin color and hair texture.
6.4 What is meant by assimilation?
Answer: It is the process by which the person is accepted and/or incorporated into a group.
6.5 What is acculturation?
Answer: It means that a person will learn and imbibe the new culture while losing the original one.
6.6 What are the effects of poverty to children?
Answer:  lack nutrition, lack of basic needs, inability to go to school, lack of emotional strength, experiences of negativity from parents, some cases of child labor.
6.7 What are the contrasting views about the family?
Answer: collectivistic and individualistic
6.8 What are the examples of collectivistic points of view?
Answer: child as part of a group, the emphasis for family, group, and community, the emphasis on extended family, the emphasis on interdependence and helpfulness, social skills and the like.
6.9 What are the examples of individualistic points of view?
Answer: child as an individual, the emphasis on individuals and privacy, the emphasis independence, the emphasis on cognitive skills and the like.
6.10 What should be best attitude of teachers towards students’ individual differences?
Answer: Teachers must respect the individuality of pupils.
6.11 What is the greatest challenge of teachers in line with individual differences of students?
Answer: It is to create a positive environment inside and outside the classroom.

Chapter 7 – Understanding How communities impact children’s Learning

7.1 What are the characteristics of a community?
Answer: It is composed of a group of people; These people live in the same locality; Members share with each other; It provides services to its members; Members also pay taxes and should also look after the welfare of their neighbours.
7.2 What are the types of communities?
Answer: urban and rural communities.
7.3 Where are urban communities located?
Answer: Urban communities are located in cities
7.4 Where are rural communities located?
Answer: Rural communities are located in remote areas
7.5 What are the types of connections in communities?
Answer: emotional, social, and economic.
7.6 What is the term used to refer to the idea that in communities there is the orientation towards significant people and social ties?
Answer: Social networks
7.7 What the status of availability of child care centers in poor areas?
Answer: These communities possess only limited supply good-quality child-serving institutions and facilities
7.8 What is the term used to refer to adults that are not family members and yet serve as role models for children?
Answer: Non-family adults
7.9 What is the term used to refer to the process that introduce to children antisocial behaviours through imitation and peer pressure and limit the children’s opportunity to acquire the social and interpersonal skills necessary to function in mainstream settings.
Answer: Social contagion
7.10 What are the two approaches for linking schools and families with communities?
Answer: Deficit-based approach and asset based approach
7.11 What is the approach that tries to identify the needs of schools and find resources from communities to solve them?
Answer: Deficit-based approach
7.12 What is the approach that tries to identify the assets in the community and accommodates them in the plans of the school?
Answer: Asset-based approach
7.13 What are the strategies that may be used by educators in order to connect with communities?
Answer: learning about the community and its assets, strengthening parent-to-parent support, and mobilizing communities to develop additional assets for families

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