Family

=**Family**=

We welcome parents at the PCDC anytime. View your child through the one-way windows of the observation room or visit the classroom.

Parents learn about their child's experiences and class activities through: Parent co-oping offers a range of opportunities for parents to:
 * daily conversations with the teachers
 * newsletters
 * parent conferences
 * parent meetings
 * parent bulletin board
 * bulletin board displays
 * be involved in your child's education
 * connect with other parents
 * enhance your parenting skills



FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
A partnership is a type of relationship but is based on professional and/or personal relationships. There are many things that come together to form a partnership with another and they include respect, trust, sensitivity of the other, open communication, common goals, teamwork, equality, and shared decision making. In building these partnerships with the parents can’t help in many ways to help one another in developing the child’s learning. Otherwise it could just create much stress with the teachers, parents, and/or the children. Ways in which I would begin to develop partnerships with the partnerships is that the first day of class I would send home a newsletter home with the children. The letter will consist of welcoming them to the class and a feel of what I’m like and some things I have planned for the students in the class throughout the year. Following the newsletter I will like to have an activity/potluck type invite that the families are invited to participate in so I could get to know them and their child more. I want to keep the parents informed as much as possible on events, themes, and ways they can help or join set up and get involved more with the learning of the children. I would like the parents to feel comfortable and know that their children are safe in the classroom or child care like setting which ever I may be working. Welcoming them as they bring their child into the classroom is good way to get involved and to get some conversations in with the parents. Especially, if it is regarding their child’s behavior they are having so far throughout the morning. The parents of course will know more about their child than we do but we teachers do focus on their abilities to perform tasks and their learning/ understanding of the world around them. Some community resources I would like to share with families is the Boys and Girls Club, KidSpirit, and the Parks and Recreation Center. I would offer a resource sheet to parents/families about community programs in which can help form a supporting community with other families.