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A Home For Leo, Marcella More Aug 2023

A Home For Leo, Marcella More

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

● Students will make decisions, such as raising hands or taking turns. ● Students will use collaborative techniques and active listening skills when engaging in discussions in a variety of situations. ● Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and or writing, provide factual information about a topic.


Beginnings: How Families Come To Be, Heather Bourgeois Jul 2023

Beginnings: How Families Come To Be, Heather Bourgeois

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

 The student will compare children and families from the book "Beginnings: How Families Come to Be" with what families looked like and did in the past.  The student will explore the concept of family diversity by comparing and contrasting the characters’ experiences.  The student will recall information about the book to answer questions about family diversity.


Families, Families, Families!, Amanda Sanchez Jul 2023

Families, Families, Families!, Amanda Sanchez

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

Students will write a personal narrative about their families using a logical sequence of events, transitions, and an ending. ● Students will improve their writing as needed by planning, revising and editing. ● Students will present their writing about their families using complete sentences, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.


Digital Literacy: A Review Of Literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, Fiona Boylan Jan 2023

Digital Literacy: A Review Of Literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, Fiona Boylan

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This report describes the main themes of collected literature to examine and explain the information in relation to making best practice recommendations for using digital technologies with children, and their families using Better Beginnings programs. These themes include:

  • definitions of literacy,
  • digital literacy in the context of childhood and children’s rights,
  • dimensions of children’s digital literacy,
  • digital technology, children and families,
  • digital divide and diversity,
  • eSafety, privacy, protection,
  • children’s digital literacy learning, and
  • librarian staff as digital literacy mentors and advocates.

The early childhood phase of childhood (particularly birth to age five) is one of the most under - researched …


Ece 302 Children, Families, Communities, And Schools In Sociocultural Contexts—Birth To Grade 6, Lisa Cavallero Jan 2022

Ece 302 Children, Families, Communities, And Schools In Sociocultural Contexts—Birth To Grade 6, Lisa Cavallero

Open Educational Resources

Topics covered in this course include: home, school, and community influences, family diversity, roles and experiences of families, early learning, special needs, protecting children, influences of the home and community, working with families.

This course outline includes:

  • all assignments for the course (link to assignments packet).
  • links to lecture slides
  • instructor notes
  • additional resources

Note: users will be prompted to make their own copy of documents when clicking on links to Google Docs and Google Slides.


All Families Are Special, Qwanesha Ards Aug 2021

All Families Are Special, Qwanesha Ards

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

No abstract provided.


Focused, Josie Flowers Nov 2020

Focused, Josie Flowers

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

No abstract provided.


Quality Interactions Between Professionals And Families To Enhance Child Learning, Carol M. Trivette Nov 2016

Quality Interactions Between Professionals And Families To Enhance Child Learning, Carol M. Trivette

ETSU Faculty Works

Young children learn through the interactions they have within their environments. These interactions include all of the people who support them (parents, family members, interventionists, therapists, childcare providers, and other practitioners). This session will focus on how practitioners can help parents, families, and other adult caregivers develop the types of interactions needed to have a lasting positive impact on the learning of their young children with disabilities.

Objectives:

  1. Explore strategies for helping families understand early communication attempts of children before language is developed or in the presence of a delay or disability
  2. Explore how adult-child interactions change to promote children’s …


Engaging Families To Focus On Intervention Strategies, Carol M. Trivette Jun 2016

Engaging Families To Focus On Intervention Strategies, Carol M. Trivette

ETSU Faculty Works

Young children with disabilities have better outcomes when their families are actively involved in supporting their child’s learning. This session will help Early Interventionists, private therapy providers, and other professionals working with young children with disabilities think about their interactions with the child's family and how those interactions strengthen a family’s ability to support their child’s learning.

In this 90 minute session participants will:

  1. Learn about strategies to increase parent participation in their child’s Early Intervention home visits and/or therapy sessions
  2. Explore possible strategies that can be used to engage a deployed parent in home visits and/or therapy sessions
  3. Observe …