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A comprehensive guide for teachers to establishing collaborative relationships with parents/families and the larger community.
This thoroughly updated, practical book is about developing strong links with children’s family members and with the communities they live in. Written for teachers, child care staff, and other school professionals, it focuses on how the school curriculum, structures, and administration context link with the everyday lives of children–essentially how to bring about successful collaborations and partnerships among families, schools, and communities that will make learning experiences more productive and more positive for all concerned. With this book as a guide, teachers get the understanding and tools they need to work with others to give children a better education. With its coverage of both theory and practice, this highly popular guide:
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Develops a firm understanding of the context of children’s lives and their families’ lives.
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Includes a number of outstanding pedagogical features designed to ensure teaching and learning success.
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Addresses and highlights areas of critical importance in education today.
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Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 6/e is a comprehensive, practical guide to establishing collaboration with families and the larger community that focuses on making the learning experience more productive and more positive for all concerned. It gives school teachers, child care teachers, and other professionals the understanding and tools they need to work with family and community members to give children a rich education. This new edition helps students to develop a firm understanding of the context of children’s and their families’ lives, includes a number of outstanding pedagogical features designed to ensure teaching and learning success, and addresses and highlights areas of critical importance in education today. New features in the sixth edition include:
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