CLD 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Behavior Management, Intercultural Competence

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 231
• Professor: Audrey Huberman

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* 4 main goals: to educate, provide parents with the opportunity to in uence their child"s program, provide continuity between home and center and to empower parents. * directed at either the poor/at risk or the middle class. * programs to provide instruction to parents (for at risk) or as a discussion group (middle class) * not much evidence to support the success of parent education, but the most successful programs are intensive and long lasting, funded, implemented by professionals, respond to parent"s needs and involve open ended discussion. * these programs can lead to mother"s feeling as though their parenting isn"t good enough, feel judged or as if they don"t have a say in decisions. * almost all practitioners (social work, ece, teachers, nurses) provide parent education. * letting parents share in decisions about the program, practitioners must articulate clearly which areas can"t be compromised. * establishing parent boards or encouraging parent participation on boards of early childhood programs.