Workshops/How To Work With Families

• Child Focus
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Foster Parent Training - Options For Youth
• Inclusion in Schools: Real and Perceived Views of Full Inclusion - Dark Ages? Bright Futures
• Infants and Toddlers in Your Care: How to Nurture 0-3 Year-Olds in Group Care and at Home
• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Preparing Personnel to Work With Parents and Families
• Reducing Stress in the Lives of Young Chlldren
• Sample Forms for Teachers
• Ask Dr. Susan

Making the ABC Model Work

 

Job and Family Services - Foster Family Training

The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

 

Each of us uses tricks of the trade to get our way and solve our problems that match with our personalities and temperaments.  We all have different and diverse learning and interacting styles, so pick and choose but do it with a belief in a bright future, not a dark ages view of what has been: 

All parents and children can make use of multiple intelligences; each of us needs to identify our talents. Talent development will become a huge influence on the willingness of schools to fully integrate children into regular schools if they are helped by families to recognize the gifts and the strengths of all of us as individuals.

 

Logical-Mathematic

Social Interaction

Cognitive Intelligence

Intuitive Creative

Music/Artistic Intelligence

Spatial Intelligence

 

  All of us, pros and parents, need to take on multiple roles and train ourselves to take the best from each one:

Role of administration/professional

Role of resource investigator

Role of promoter and publicist so everyone has a voice

Role of negotiator and navigator

                Role of teacher, which is to be a skilled assistant, not a direct instructor

                Role model for others in the community who do not have the skills you have acquired.

 

A practically perfect place to learn is _____________________

Special education is ___________________________________

How did we become special?

Do we want to be “special”?

What is a regular education initiative?

An expert at consensus collaboration does __________________

Establish mutual goals with professionals who provide expertise in a certain area

 

 

Administrators

HOW?

               Mom and Dad                             Mother                              Administrator

 

Children                   Father/Grandparents        Children  Teachers                    Parents

Avoid triangles; create equal partnerships

 

Avoid overstated positions like, "I don’t want any special support, we can do it ourselves, our decision is final.

 

Avoid putting a child or a teacher or a professional in the middle of a debate, but include children in three-way conferencing and family meetings

Teach yourself to observe on ly what you see and hear and report what you see and hear in a depersonalized and fair way. This raises expectations.

Accelerate learning at home and in the classroom

Avoid over programming children and allow them free time to play at all ages