PARENT PRESENTATION

JENNIFER GREEN
ECE 497-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CAPSTONE
COURSE
INSTRUCTOR: CHANDRA FARMER
NOVEMBER 4, 2016

LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Lincoln Elementary School has the qualities to meet the children needs. Our motto is supporting families and children with
the abilities to strive for a higher learner. The goal is to meet the child's development growth and ensure positive
reinforcement of care, academic achievement, and community involvement.

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

During this stage, the children are learning and exploring with
materials. Some children are creating peer relationships and
reasoning with others. Children will need to encounter on-going
communication within their surrounding area. Language abilities
develop rapidly; by the age of 6, the average child knows 14,000
words and demonstrates extensive grammatical knowledge. (South
Carolina Department of Mental Health, (n.d.). Children will need
guidance for others. For instance, parents, teacher, and the
community will have an impact.

AS A CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL

As an educator, it's important to support families and children with positive guidance, resources, and
communication. Provide teaching objects that obtain physical, social, language, and cognitive abilities to
ensure developmental growth. Secure a safe and healthy learning environment to ensure quality care.
Working with the community is important. Be consistent with age appropriate educational learning
activities. Provide an educational environment, which supports children, applying modifications and
accommodations is an important aspect. Maintain and set goals to ensure learning experiences. Providing
training to parents, to assist with meeting their children needs.

RATIONALE
It's important to have the community and parents to work together as a partnership. "A well-organized
partnership program starts with an Action Team for Partnerships. Made up of teachers, administrators,
parents, and community partners, the Action Team is linked to the school council or school improvement
team."(Epstein, Salinas, & Voorhis, 2001) A parent partnership creates a well-balanced outcome to support
education. The provided presentation will define the meaning of real educational awareness. Lincoln
Elementary can provide children with learning experiences, which relates to, their development stages and
works to obtain community involvement.

BRONFENBRENNERS MESOSYSTEM SYSTEM

The second level of Bronfenbrenners model, the mesosystem, encompasses connections between microsystems,
such as home, school, neighborhood, and child-care center. (Berk, 2012) The childs mesosystem system relates
to having an on-going relationship with others within the environment. As an example, teachers or childcare
providers will play a major role. The child will spend quality time with others to obtain a relationship. This
relates to the childs nature and nurture environment levels. Familyneighborhood connections are
especially important for economically disadvantaged children. (Berk, 2012).
Children and families will obtain support from the community with the assistance of
being supported to meet the family needs.

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Communication
Volunteering
Learning At Home
Decision Making

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PARENTING

The parents have an impact on the childs development growth. Children will learn within their living environment. Parents
will have an influence on their social, language, and cognitive outcomes. The children will have different morals, cultural beliefs,
and different learning experiences. Understanding of and confidence about parenting, child and adolescent development, and
changes in home conditions for learning as children proceed through school. (Epstein, J. (n.d.). Its important to create family
relationships to ensure on-going success. As an educator, parent involvement supports awareness of the childs learning abilities.
Respect for families strengths and efforts. (Epstein, J. (n.d.). This will give an opportunity to develop relationships.

Understanding families background, cultures, concerns, goals, needs, and views, of their children. (Epstein, J. (n.d.).
School systems can work with families and communities to bring define awareness. For instance, family day events, heritage
resources and programs to meet an individual cultural need. Providing meetings will allow an opportunity to ask of any
questions or concerns.

COMMUNICATING
Communication is very important working with families and their children. It ensures problem- solving
and reasoning with others. Providing communication is an important aspect. Communication about school
programs and student progress to mean two-way, three-way, and many-way channels of communication that
connects schools, families, students, and the community. (Epstein, J. (n.d.). Communicating with parents will
allow children the ability to strive more with challenges, frustration, and academic achievements. Teachers can
provide progress reports, parent/teacher conferences, and curriculum nights to support communication skills.
The school will provide on-going communications. For instance, emails, daily experience sheets, and
portfolio updates will become a successful outcome. This will allow parents to become a part of effective
communication throughout the day. This will allow parents to make decisions concerning their
children. Community awareness will become helpful with displaying flyers or message on bulletin boards.

VOLUNTEERING
Many schools will allow parents to volunteer within the classroom. The parents and community can
volunteer to work or supply materials to meet children educational needs. Volunteering allows children to
have social interactions with others. For instance, fire fighter visit, the children can relate to real-life events.
The classrooms will allow parents to become of reading books to the children. Volunteer to mean anyone
who supports school goals and childrens learning or development in any way, at any place, and at any time-not just during the school day and at the school building. (Epstein, J. (n.d.).
The school could provide volunteering during the school year. The community and parents can work on
a school project, create banners, provide well-ness activities to support the children awareness. Providing
children with hands-on experiences will become helpful with their learning outcomes.

LEARNING AT HOME
Engaging with children at home is paramount. The children can learn with opportunities to support
their development growth. For instance, cooking with families, will provide math and science abilities .
Children can explore with expanding their vocabulary reading with their parents. A common learning
activity is homework. The children can gain in skills, abilities, and test scores linked to homework and
classwork. (Epstein, J. (n.d.).
The school can provide children to take home learning materials. This will allow families to observe
their childs process of learning words, numbers, and creativity. Parents could attend curriculum night, to
obtain the strengths and weakness relating to materials. The community can play the role of donating items
to ensure learning is provided at home. The school will obtain resources to obtain helpful information.

DECISION MAKING
A parent has the ability to offer decision-making with their children. This will allow parents to become a
part of providing positive guidance. Many parents participate in community activities to obtain appropriate
learning experiences. The children will learn and develop with the outcome of their parents making a
decision. This will allow a feeling of ownership of school. (Epstein, J. (n.d.).
The school could maintain on-going decision making with parents. For instance, feedback with
completing surveys, will allow parents to choose the correct method of decision. The community can obtain
decision making attending school board meetings.

COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY

Community to mean not only the neighborhoods where students homes and schools are located but also
neighborhoods that influence their learning and development. (Epstein, J. (n.d.). The community plays a
significant role relating to parents and children.
The school and community will obtain support with educational resources. For instance, job fairs and
training workshops will become helpful to support familys needs. Working in the community, provides
others to explore social interaction, group participation, and cultural awareness.

REFERENCES
Berk, L. E. (03/2012). Child Development, 9th Edition. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from
https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781269576192/
Educational Leadership: Schools as Learning Communities: Partnering ...Retrieved from
www.ascd.org/publications/.../Parnering-with-Families-and-Communities.aspx
Epstein, J. (n.d.). Epstein's framework of six types of involvement. Retrieved from
http://www.unicef.org/lac/Joyce_L._Epstein_s_Framework_of_Six_Types_of_Involvement(2).pdf
South Carolina Department of Mental Health. (n.d.). Child development resources for parents and teachers. Retrieved from
http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/schoolbased/school_resources.htm