Families Schools & Communities Building Partnerships For Educating Children With Video Enhanced Pearson Etext Access Card Package

Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 6/e is a comprehensive, practical guide to establishing collaboration with families and the larger community that focuses on making the learning experience more productive and more positive for all concerned. It gives school teachers, child care teachers, and other professionals the understanding and tools they need to work with family and community members to give children a rich education. This new edition helps students to develop a firm understanding of the context of children’s and their families’ lives, includes a number of outstanding pedagogical features designed to ensure teaching and learning success, and addresses and highlights areas of critical importance in education today. New features in the sixth edition include:

• Available as an Enhanced Pearson eText, with video links in each chapter to expand on text concepts and illustrations.
• A variety of formative assessments woven into the chapters help readers self check comprehension.
• Learning Outcomes, Summaries and Questions draw readers’ attention to the important concepts:
  • Why this Topic Matters paragraphs open each chapter to set the stage.
  • Why This Topic Matters to You ending paragraphs focus readers’ attention on how this will help them.
  • Questions and activities at the end of each chapter revisit the Learning Outcomes, help readers apply the concepts, and stimulate reflection and discussion on the material, as well as on their own experiences.
  • Ideas for Your Classroom and Examine Your Beliefs and Practices sections feature direct strategies readers can take into the classroom and help them personalize the material being presented. (These replace the past Reflections and Implications sections.)
• Population diversity is highlighted to emphasize variations in gender issues, ethnic factors, spiritual beliefs, and political motivations.
• Newly constructed figures, graphs and tables expand text information in a graphic mode.
• Military families and their special challenges are introduced as an understudied population.
• Place-based education, outdoor education and mentoring show new areas affecting children, families, and collaboration.
• Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards are featured to show expanding governmental interests and concern.
• Ideas for your Classroom, Examine your Beliefs and Practices, and Perspectives on Diversity are inserted in each chapter to promote reflection and to provide teachers and caregivers with strategies.
• Media Matters features in each chapter integrate educational features with the issues and trends of our digital age.

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• Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience.
• Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad(R) and Android(R) tablet.*
• Affordable. The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone or with a loose-leaf version of the text for 40-65% less than a print bound book.

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• 013344127X / 9780133441277 Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children
• 0133551350 / 9780133551358 Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

Patricia Scully has worked in the field of early childhood education in a variety of roles for over 40 years. In addition to teaching in child-care and elementary school settings, she has worked as a child-care center director and as education director of several non-profit agencies. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she directs the early childhood program. Her areas of expertise include early literacy, relaxation and stress reduction for children and teachers, and parent and community involvement in education. 

Chandler Barbour is a retired professor of Education from Towson University now living on an island off the coast of Maine. He worked as a teacher and administrator in elementary schools and universities over a period of 42 years. He is co-author of three different books on teacher and school partnerships. 

Hilary Roberts-King lives in Baltimore, Maryland and has been an elementary school teacher for over ten years. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Pacific Oaks College where she has developed and taught courses in math processes in early childhood education, early literacy, and child development. Currently she is president of the board of directors for the non-profit Downtown Baltimore Child Care and teaches first grade in a Title I school.

Chapter 1    Home, School, and Community Influences on Children’s Lives

Chapter 2    Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Chapter 3    Viewing Family Diversity

Chapter 4    Understanding Roles and Experiences of Parents

Chapter 5    Meeting Child-Care Needs from Infancy Through School Age

Chapter 6    Working with Families of Children with Disabilities

Chapter 7    Protecting and Safeguarding Children

Chapter 8    Home Influences on Children’s Development

Chapter 9    Community Influences on Children’s Development

Chapter 10  Establishing and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships

Chapter 11  Building School Partnerships with Families and Community Groups

Appendix    Bibliography of Children’s Books

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index