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Updated April 1, 2017

Module 1: Valuing Each Child and Family

Partnerships​

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The partnership between families and early learning professionals is fundamental to children’s current and future success and their readiness for school. In your work, you will have an opportunity to help develop the attitudes and skills that support genuine partnerships with families. ​
Family members bring a broad array of information, feelings, beliefs and expectations relevant to their child’s experience to your program, including: 
  • The child’s temperament, health history, and behavior at home
  • Family expectations, fears and hopes about the child’s success or failure
  • Culturally-rooted beliefs about child-rearing
  • Families’ experiences of school and beliefs about their role in relation to professionals
  • Families’ sense of control and authority, and other personal and familial influences
You and other members of your program bring unique knowledge, beliefs and attitudes to this work, including: 
  • Developmental and educational information about the child based on observation and assessment
  • Your own culturally-rooted beliefs about child-rearing
  • Information about the child’s performance in the program
  •  Information about the curriculum and learning goals for the child
  • Knowledge about the child’s next educational environment
  • Your unique personality and temperament, family history and culture
  • Your education, training, experience, and professional philosophy
  •  Your job description, program policies, and procedures
​Respectfully sharing these different perspectives is an essential step toward creating healthy learning environments for children.   
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