Working With Families Research Paper

Working With Families

It is very important for parents and teachers to have a partnership in the classroom. When teachers work with families it makes families feel like they're involved in their child's school life.Relationships turn into partnerships when the both parties involved have the same goal, for example doing what best for the children, and work together to reach that goal. Partnerships start with positive relationships. And positive relationships begin with communication. It is imperative that teachers have a open line of communication with all families of the children in their care. Communication includes listening and speaking to each other. I'm with all the different types of technology that we have today there are many ways that

With physical development of a child you need to look for how to child crawls, walks, runs, bounces, climbs, uses their body. With cognitive development, this is a harder one to see, you need to watch for how the child solve problems, if they see similarities and differences in things, how they investigate and explore, and what ideas they understand. When observing social and emotional development it is best to check facial expressions, body gestures, the way the child interacts with others, and takes turns. You want to find how the child feels about themselves and others. Lastly when observing language development you need to observe what sort of words/sentences are used; one or two words, part or full sentences, questions, statements, does the child start conversations? Can you understand what the child is saying?(reference) Observing is a very important process. You can learn so much about a child's development from observing. For example, if you are observing a child's playing you will see the child being active which is physical development. How they interact with others around them, which can be language if they are at a verbal stage or social/emotional development. Physical development helps children in gaining confidence, it is when they test what they can do, and if you as an observer sees them you can help them improve in certain areas. You can help build a child’s confidence by allowing them to take risk. You can motivate children. You can learn so much by observing children playing. This can help you as a teacher plan for what you need to do with this child in the future because you know where they are