Guide Name and Description/Objectives

Related Lesson/Module Section

Learning Guide 5.1: Setting the Stage- Pre-Module

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners face when working with familes to promote family-centeredness, family capacity building, and encourage positive parent-professional relationships.

Learning Guide 5.2: Ask The Experts

With this guide, learners will:

• Describe family practices.
• Identify key characteristics of recommended practices related to families.

Learning Guide 5.3: Gathering Information

With this guide, learners will:

• Review family profiles and, with a small group, identify the family’s circumstances, brainstorm ways to involve the family members in decision-making, and identify strategies that will build relationships and increase competence and confidence for the family.
• Identify the family’s circumstances, brainstorm ways to involve the family members in decision-making.
• Identify strategies that will build relationships and increase competence and confidence for the family.

Learning Guide 5.4: Take Action

With this guide, learners will:

• Develop family-centered support plans for the unique context in which they work/teach.
• Identify the strengths, resources, and needs of the families in their care and the specific strategies they will use to build capacity and collaboration.

Learning Guide 5.5:  Voices from the Field

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify strategies and considerations that will help inform their practice for working with children and families from special populations.

Learning Guide 5.6: Scenario-Based Activity

This guide contains a set of five simulations/scenarios that can be used in place of, or in addition to, the online simulation.

With this guide, learners will:

• Practice engaging with families to support parents to participate fully in all decision-making activities and support parents' confidence and competence.
• Apply what they have learned about family practices.

Learning Guide 5.7: Reframing Activity Guide

With this guide, learners will:

• Reframe statements about families to reflect an anti-bias viewpoint.
• Reflect on implicit bias and its impact on their practice.

Module 5 Do Section

Module 5 Study Section

Learning Guide 5.8: Performance Feedback Guide

This guide can be used in class when learners are engaged in role-plays or scenario-based activities. Also, this guide can be used when supervising learners in early childhood settings with children.

Learning Guide 5.9: Practice Profile

Module 5 Family Practice Profile describes example behaviors of practitioners that are associated with each DEC Recommended Practice along a continuum of expected/proficient behaviors to developmental behaviors and unacceptable behaviors.

Learning Guide 5.10: Setting the Stage - Wrap-Up

With this guide, learners will:

• Reflect on changes in their knowledge and comfort level in working with families and use knowledge gained from Module 5: Family content to answer a practice dilemma.