Explain three benefits of family participation; one for family members, one for children and one for teachers
What will be an ideal response?
Benefits of family participation:
Family members:
• Have an opportunity to learn about new ways of guiding growth and development
• Gain insight about their children as they watch them participate in an out-of-home setting
• Develop increased understanding about the curriculum that they may be able to apply at home
• Feel more proficient as a teacher for their own children
• Build a sense of competence and a feeling of being needed as they contribute to the program
The children:
• Have a chance to see their family members in a different role
• Become acquainted with adults who have languages, feelings, and ways of relating that are different from their own family members and teachers
• See familiar adults interacting with one another in respectful, meaningful, and productive ways
• Have more individualized attention available to them
• Experience a richer curriculum
The teachers:
• Have a chance to expand their program because of the improved child—adult ratio
• Gain knowledge and expertise from what families bring and share
• Hear children's home languages and may learn some basic vocabulary
• Have an opportunity to observe the relationship between the child and members of the family
• Increase their understanding of individual families and their values, preferences, and styles
• Develop a more meaningful relationship with individual family members
• Have more opportunity to interact with individual children
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