Supporting Boys of Color

09/09/2009

Not for ourselves alone are we born.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

FPG Child Development Institute recommended in early developments (Winter 2008) these professional development goals to enable teachers to partner with parents of boys of color to promote achievement...

Understand values, beliefs, norms, expectations, and practices of families of color.
Learn and use a variety of approaches/strategies for reaching out to families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Be familiar with differences and similarities across contexts of development in discipline strategies, communication styles, language/dialect, goals/expectations for boys of color.
Learn strategies for conveying expectations to families and soliciting/asking parents to share their expectations of the school/teacher.
Provide parents with materials and strategies to support boys learning at home.
Learn about and employ strategies for having productive discussions with families about difficult subjects.
Strategize on how to repair relationships and partner with "difficult" parents.
Create varied and multiple opportunities for parents to participate in classroom activities.

Great Resources on Working with Parents

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The Top Ten Preschool Parenting Problems
How Does it Feel?
Parent Relations: Building an Active Partnership
The Complete Parenting Exchange Library

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Parent Conferences
Parent Involvement
Multiracial Children
Meeting the Needs of Today's Families

The following Out of the Box Training Kits:

Family Conferencing: Asking and Listening
Making Families Welcome

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