Family Advocacy 5

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Parent Professional Partnership Project: Issue: Disabilities Part 1. Understanding families abilities and desires to collaborate is very helpful in how we approach them. Page 248 shares an example of a survey. For this weeks assignment, I want for you to create your own survey. Your survey will have at least 6 questions-2 from each of the following categories (Family Structure Questions; Family Culture Questions; School Involvement Questions). Use page 248 as a jumping off point, but DO NOT use the questions they ask as a part of your assignment.  Upload your survey here.

Part 2. Thinking about your Parent Professional Partnership project, it is important to “catch” parents attention to draw them in. For part three I would like for you to develop a marketing tool to “advertise” or “label” your project. For example, when I was doing a project in a school to teach children conflict negotiation skills, and I needed to recruit parents to volunteer to be peer mediation coaches, I sent home this little reminder – a small note attached to a piece of (sugarless) gum that said: “Help kids learn how to deal with sticky situations. Be a peer mediation coach in your child’s classroom. Orientation meeting 6:00 pm School Library”

This is one example—others fun strategies include:

Post Cards Candy-grams Buttons to wear or sell or make Public thank-you’s (in a newsletter, over the school PA system, on a bulletin board) Planting seeds (seed packets for volunteers – thanks for planting seeds of learning in my classroom) Growing Information – put some “facts” on flowers/craft sticks in a little peat pot – “the information is growing about video games – here’s what you need to know” Motivation/Inspiration bags Cartoons Confetti (made with mini-messages) Magnets “Can-do” (tin cans with various volunteer jobs in them as projects get started)

Flyers

Write up your idea for this assignment and post it.