Emotional Responses: 1. Concept of Professionalism Not being a professional in an early childhood care setting, will affect the partnership between parents and teachers. For example, teachers seeing the relationship with families as one-way process of informing parents and attempting to influence them, is called power over another. Therefore, for a partnership to develop, teachers must create a different mental concept of their role, by helping families to find their own solutions to the challenges regarding their children. 2. Sense of Self Teachers who are most able to become in a collaborative partnership with families are those who have a strong sense of self. Because, they respect themselves, they treat others with equal dignity, relate as one individual to another, and avoid stereotyping. Therefore, as teachers identify their values, they will make opportunities for parents to consider …show more content…
Humility Teachers with humility have the ability to wait, be silent and to listen. They can step outside standard frames of reference to find creative, ways to work with families because they are not limited by believing that on the traditional methods will work. Therefore, hesitancy and humility result in thoughtful practices and will increased trust from families that teachers are professionals that support empowerment and genuine partnership. Also, humility allows teachers to keep on trying when some attempts have failed with families. 4. Compassion To create parent-teacher partnership, teachers should have the ability to display compassion for themselves and for others. Also, they should be able to empathize with parents to understand their perspective and emotional responses. Therefore, teachers should be capable to work with families whose have different life experiences and motivations. A key factor for creating a partnership with parents is for teachers to be able to understand that life from the viewpoints of diverse families is different from their
Parental involvement in a child’s education can be detrimental to the teaching process in more ways that someone might realize. The article by Ron Clark, “What teachers really want to tell parents” outlined the problems that can arise in the way parents perceive their child’s teacher, on the other end of the spectrum than the most commonly known problem, which is when parental involvement is lacking, it can cause a direct relation to inhibiting their child’s ability to learn, and do well in school. Clark discusses the problems that arise when a parent doesn’t appreciate the teacher’s involvement in their child’s life. He first acknowledges the fact that new teachers are only making it 4.5 years into the profession, which some of the reasons
Family involvement in an early childhood classroom means that families work together with caregivers and teachers to create an atmosphere that
Communication with the parent could be an issue when it is affected by the resentment between the teacher and the parent. The challenge for early care teachers is to understand that a family’s point of view about raising their child is valid for that family
Teaching my students to care for not only themselves but also for others occurs through having positive, fair and consistent rules and discipline showcasing love. While listening to each and every student’s needs each of my students feel cared for and loved while teaching them it is ok to express their own feelings and thoughts.
In the book Early Childhood Education Today 11th Edition, we read that “Family-centered practice is one of the cornerstone features of early childhood special education. This follows the fundamental notion that children’s development is influenced by their environment: their family, teachers, school, town, media, governmental systems, and so on.” (MORRISON, 2009) The first thing we as teachers must do is acknowledge that the children’s families are the first and most important teachers of their children and recognize the long-term effect families have on the attitudes and accomplishments of their children . For the edification of today’s youth there are potential positive responses to be obtained through working with a child’s parents as
An American psychiatrist by the name of William Glasser once stated, “When you study great teachers…you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” Teachers are a huge part of an individual’s life. From the time a person enters into preschool until the complete cessation of their educational career, the teachers and professors along the way each influence that student’s perspective and feeling towards the particular subject they taught. With daily interactions, teachers become a part of a student’s microsystem. They are often times the only other constant adult figure in their student’s life apart from the caregiver. Whether it is acknowledged or not, the importance of teacher cannot be overstated. Unfortunately,
Other critical times might be when children experience bereavement, are upset or worried, or feel left out or different in a negative way. By working together and sharing information parents and then school can help make these times in children’s lives easier. Good partnerships are built on trust. Schools need to respect the confidentiality of
A professional educator will actively view the child’s in association with their family and environment. They need to be viewed in context with their family as this will make the educator aware and respect the values and culture of each family and student. Principle 2 of the EYLF mentions ‘Learning outcomes are most likely to be achieved when Early Childhood Educators work in partnership with families’ (EYLF, 2009, p12). This is mostly effective when a successful educator uses strategies that actively involves the family, by introducing families to the classroom through plan programs that invites parent input.
As Newman’s we are not perfect but we support each other in everything we do. I can call my father day or night to ask him, “Hey what would you do in this situation.” I believe that as young people we learn from our elders. We need to take the advice from them and use it because they have been through it all, just about. As a future educator the values my parents instilled on me to be the best I can be, is easily transferred to my classroom. I take what I have learned from my parents and apply it in my everyday life by when I teach students, I can show them by my actions that I am willing to do whatever I can for them to pass. It shows them that if I have a teacher that is willing to do that for me, I should be willing to do my best. Being your best is not a easy thing to accomplish, you have to work at it and I was fortunate to learn that through family but my students will be able to learn that from how I teach. There will never be a student that walks through the threshold of my classroom that will not receive the same treatment. My culture shines through my heart, my actions, and my passions. This is a culture that was taught on love and respect. Teaching needs to be the same thing. If an educator loves and respect the students, their classroom, and their environment, there should be no reason that the teacher will fail as an educator. Each child is different;
As Fellowes (2010) suggests, it is important for teachers to share their knowledge and experience with parents.
Working in partnership with key professionals will provide good support and advice where needed to help improve the overall development of the children and to help staff that are less experienced in certain areas. As every child develops differently and at different rates working in partnership and listening to a professional that is for a certain area will help with children’s different needs. For example getting recourses off a speech and language therapist will help the child with the specific need to develop in the best way
Personal Belief System: School professionals that are not uncertain, but firmly believe that collaboration will create positive results and is worth the challenge (Friend, 2014). It is important for teachers to have this mentality in order to be ready to work with the support of others, otherwise their work may have to be done without needed support (Friend, 2014).
As a professional early childhood educator, our job is not only to be the child’s teacher but also to be someone the children can look up to, confide in and rely on in their time of need. We have the responsibility to maintain the highest standard of professionalism in our work while acting in our best for the well-being of the children and their families. Firstly, some qualities early childhood educators should portray are qualities like being warm, respectful, accepting, trustworthy, and responsible and most importantly being able to keep their work and personal life separate (Cartwright, 1999). In terms of being warm, a professional early childhood educator should naturally be able to help the child feel welcomed and integrate into the
In addition, Rodd (2006) provides an understanding of the professional view, as she explains that professionals should be available to parents, whenever needed by them. According to Rodd (2006), practitioners should be developed to be effective leaders. An effective leader will create a partnership with parents where
Constructive working relationships between teachers and parents can enhance adults knowledge and understanding of children and children’s learning opportunities, and so contribute to children’s learning and wellbeing at home and in the setting. Children who see their parents working closely together with their teachers “gain a sense of continuity and of being cared for” and experience a “trusting