responding to peers

EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS 2

Sharing Power

Under the standard of sharing power, early care and education program trainers and families play an equal role in making decisions that affect their families and children. This standard has two major goals which are amplifying the voice of the family in the process of making decisions and expanding the social and political connections of the family. The above standard is crucial since it emphasizes on the need for family to be involved in the early development of a child, which greatly influences their future lives.

The second standard is collaborating with community. The one goal that this standard seeks to achieve is to strengthen the working relationship between parents, leaders of programs and associations in the neighborhood, business, government agencies and schools. This ensures that the early care and education program that the child attends avails resources to the parents and staff.

How to incorporate these standards into the Early Childhood Programs

First of all, the makers of the programs should consider informing parents on the importance of the above standards. Numerous benefits, such as the formation of closer and better relationships between parents, communities and their children result from these programs. This should therefore be emphasized on, as the first step.

The second step will be to help parents get accustomed to the standards. For each childhood program, a mention of the above standards, and why implementing them is important should be emphasized on to help the parents get accustomed to the same. This way, it will be necessary to run each childhood program with the requirement that the standards are included.

Lastly, to ensure that parents appreciate and themselves ensure that the standards are used efficiently, schools and the initiators of the programs will require to demonstrate to the parents and community the results of the standards. This will be achieved by comparing different outcomes.

Reference

Wardle, F.  (2013).   Collaboration with families and communities  [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/