Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3ULmqu05762; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <C50587E3B025D3118DDB00A0C9FC3C5E062162FE@EXCHANGE> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Virginia Tardaewether <tarv@exchange.chemeketa.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1054] Re: Parents as first teachers (long) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 3815 Lines: 102 We are teaching a course this summer called family literacy topics for credit at Oregon State University. It will certainly contain sections on working with parents and children. Va Virginia Tardaewether Chemeketa {Place of Peace} Outreach Instructor Dallas, OR 97338 tarv@chemeketa.edu 503-316-3242 -----Original Message----- From: Ted Rohling [mailto:tedr@instructors.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1050] Re: Parents as first teachers (long) An interesting question. I have looked at the curriculum some of the top teacher training universities in the US and we seem to miss the "family" all together. How do we get it added? It has to become a national priority along with everything else. Right now it's making sure the teacher can teach. Lots of education and subject matter classes. We need to start with Sec. Paige and see if we can get him to talk with the states to add a three hour class on family, literacy and ethnicity. In short, how to interface with everything else in the student environment. We train teachers for the best of all worlds and then put them into situations that are not like utopia. Any other ideas? Ted -----Original Message----- From: nifl-family@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-family@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Virginia Tardaewether Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1045] Re: Parents as first teachers (long) Sylvan and others ANy idea how we can get working with parents/adults in your classroom included in teacher training? Virginia Tardaewether Chemeketa {Place of Peace} Outreach Instructor Dallas, OR 97338 tarv@chemeketa.edu 503-316-3242 -----Original Message----- From: Sylvan Rainwater [mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1043] Re: Parents as first teachers (long) At 04:44 PM 04/25/2002 -0400, Virginia Tardaewether wrote: >Why does a teacher have to go into another performance mode....? Can't a >child have multiple parents and can't multiple adults help rear a child? Sure, but it is a skill that has to be learned, by both teachers and parents. We want to partner with parents, but some of us are easier at it than others. We hired an excellent infant/toddler teacher who was absolutely great with the kids, but had little experience working directly with parents (she had worked for Migrant Head Start as a classroom teacher only). In our program the teachers are also home visitors, and of course we have the parents go into the classrooms every day for PACT time. She had to learn, and we had to find ways to support her in that learning. I saw that territoriality operating with her and have also seen it with some other teachers. It is largely unconscious. You work hard to set up your room to optimize learning, and then other people come in and end up being an unknown factor in the carefully orchestrated equation. If you are only factoring in kids, and an adult comes into the room, it is disruptive. If that adult is also evaluating you, whether as a parent or as an employer, it adds to the stress. The trick is to make it all familiar -- having parents come into the room every day forces teachers to factor in adults to their performances. After a while it gets easier. But we shouldn't underestimate how difficult it can seem to someone who's not used to that. And I suspect (though I don't know for sure) that effective parent involvement is not something they teach in elementary ed classes, or other education classes. ------------------------------ Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org Adult Education Teacher and Family Literacy Program Manager Clackamas County Children's Commission . Oregon City, OR USA
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