Identify strategies for effective communication with families.
Learn effective strategies for communication with families in early childhood education and child care centers. Discover techniques and approaches to foster strong relationships between educators and parents for the benefit of children's development and well-being.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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120 hours courses
12 CEUs45 hours courses
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Related Outcomes
- Identify and use strategies for effective communication with community and colleagues.
- Demonstrate communication skills that enable intercultural communication, including effective listening skills
- Identify effective strategies for interviewing potential new staff.
- Identify common tools and strategies in completing a comprehensive family assessment.
- Recognize strategies for effective conferences with families.
- List recommended feeding schedules and identify strategies for introducing new food for children birth through age three.
- Identify the role of family in society
- Identify and contemplate bias and explore anti-bias approaches that support working with children and families.
- Identify the importance of documenting the home visitor's work with the family.
- Identify resources to assist and support families
- Identify guidance and discipline strategies to use with various behavior problems.
- Identify strategies to facilitate learning in the early childhood classroom using various methods.
- Identify strategies in promoting sound health and safety principles for in child care.
- Identify strategies to make connections and interact substantively with those who are different from oneself
- Identify strategies to assist children with food allergies/feeding concerns
- Identify strategies to promote cultural diversity and acceptance in the child care environment
- Identify strategies to listen while withholding judgement about the new or unfamiliar
- Identify strategies to ensure appropriate supervision.
- Identify strategies for providing appropriate care for infants and toddlers with chronic health issues
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