1st Edition

How to Develop Partnerships with Parents A Practical Guide for the Early Years

By Teresa Wilson Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This definitive resource provides a comprehensive range of activities and materials enabling you to equip your staff with the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to collaborate effectively with parents as part of their early years practice. Packed with practical, reflective and team-based activities and templates, How to Develop Partnerships with Parents offers evidence-based... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Making partnership with parents an outstanding quality in your setting

Chapter 2: Policy, frameworks and the production of effective paperwork

Chapter 3: Breaking down barriers

Chapter 4: The beginning of your transformation: Parental engagement in your setting

Chapter 5: Supporting transitions: Helping children and families adapt to change

Chapter 6: Parental engagement in the baby room

Chapter 7: Parental engagement in the toddler room

Chapter 8: Parental engagement in the pre-school room

Chapter 9: Creating a parent-friendly environment

Chapter 10: Communication between parents and settings: Sharing children’s development and progress

Chapter 11: Working with families, special educational needs and disability

Chapter 12: Concluding points

Index

Biography

Teresa Wilson is Programme Director of the BA in Education Studies and until recently Programme Director of the Foundation Degree in Children’s Development and Learning at the University of Reading, UK.