Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections

Course Number:
HEC 201
Transcript Title:
Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections
Created:
Aug 09, 2022
Updated:
Jul 12, 2023
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Hours:
30
Lecture / Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
No
Grading Options
A-F, P/NP, Audit
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0
Prerequisites

placement into IRW 115 or WR 115

Course Description

Identifies the influences on children and their families which impact child and family behaviors, values, attitudes, beliefs, and morals. Includes: parenting patterns; cultural, religious and socioeconomic influences; peer, school, media impacts; family development; community ecology; special needs children; prejudice; and public policy. Prerequisites: placement into IRW 115 or WR 115. Audit available.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Describe the normal child growth and development from the prenatal period through adolescence using current research theories and principles.
  2. Use current research to investigate parenting patterns and how they are influenced by mass media, culture, values, and socioeconomics.
  3. Recognize the influence of family and society on the socialization of children.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

The determination of assessment strategies is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: writings (journals, self-reflections, pre writing exercises, essays), quizzes, tests, midterm and final exams, group projects, presentations (in person, videos, etc), self-assessments, experimentations, lab reports, peer critiques, responses (to texts, podcasts, videos, films, etc), student generated questions, Escape Room, interviews, and/or portfolios.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

Process Skills

  • Assessing the community role in diversity issues.
  • Thinking critically when observing different forms of mass media.
  • Speaking before a group.
  • Interviewing adults with skill and sensitivity.

Concepts, Issues, Themes

  • Contributing factors in the socialization of children.
  • The nature and nurture of families.
  • Values, morals and attitudes.
  • Behavior, gender identity, special needs.
  • The implications of mass media and public policy.
  • Gathering information from parents.

Theories and principles of Child Development

  • Domains of Development
    • Social –emotional
    • Cognitive-Creative
    • Physical
    • Language
  • Periods Of Development
    • Pre-natal
    • Infancy
    • Early Childhood
    • Middle Childhood
    • Adolescence

Environmental, social/cultural and inherited factors that affect development

Department Notes

NAEYC Professional Standards & Competencies for Early Childhood Educators:

#2 - Family-Teacher Partnerships & Community Connections

Oregon Registry Core Knowledge Categories:

FCS - Families & Community Systems (30 hours)