family education and advocacy 7

Parent Professional Partnership topic (Disability)

Parent Professional Partnership Part 4-Resources Worksheet

Complete the Resources Worksheet below to help you think through what people, time, materials, space and financial resources you may need for your project.

It is really important to balance the “effort/input” it will take you to prepare/disseminate any component of your project against the “returns” to your project You don’t want to spend your own $$$$ to get this project done – SO: Ask for it out of program budgets, ask for donations or have parent volunteers do a fund- raiser if you need $ and it’s not available You don’t want to sit up till midnight making 45 buttons for a group to wear SO: Who can help you GET IT DONE? How?

• Children in your classroom? • Parents? Grandparents? • Colleagues? • Senior volunteers? • Other volunteers? • PTO? • Older children (junior high, high school, college)? • For community service credits or class projects?

Identifying resources you need to support your project

NEED RESOURCE HOW will you get it, ask for it?

Parent Professional Partnership Project Part 5-Outcomes

You have been working on planning a parent professional partnership project throughout this course. Now it’s time to pull it together. What were your overall goal/goals for the project? What do you hope the outcome to be?

For this assignment you will complete the following:

Project Goals:

Project Expected Outcomes:

Next, using the 6 types of parent involvement, provide at examples of how you might incorporate at least 4 of the 6 into your project. For example, if you are doing a project on male involvement, you might do the following:

Type 1-Parenting---provide a men’s only parenting workshop night on the importance of male involvement Type 2-Communication--provide home-school communication that is male focused Type 4-Learning at Home--provide activities for home that are “for dad’s only” Type 6-Collaboration--collaborate with a local hardware store to have an in class field trip for dad’s/father figures. Together parent and child with build something. Then when the hard work is done--they will “build” ice cream sundaes!!