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What is your understanding of “parent education?

How should education be modified for adult learners?

What do you know about parents in an advisory capacity?

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Traditional views and definitions Family support programs offer family-

community interaction Functions of parent education

◦ Stimulate parents to examine relationships with their children

◦ Encourage interaction among parents

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Parent Effectiveness Training (PET)

Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP)

Active Parenting Today (APT)

AVANCE Parenting Education

Center for the Improvement of Child Caring

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Consider the advantages of using a predesigned parent education program:◦ for the participants?◦ for the organizers?

Consider the possible disadvantages of using a predesigned program?

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Role of professionals Match programs to parent characteristics

and needs Attention to social context of parenting

◦ Encourage parents to share experiences with other parents

◦ Support what parents are doing◦ Expose parents to new ideas

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Parents are adults who have specific needs and wants

Parents are motivated to learn things that would improve life for them and their children

All parents need information and support

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Initial parent involvement in planning: Discussion, surveys

Selecting style of meetings for interaction Logistics that support successful meetings Challenges of immigrant parents

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Students should try to attend a parent meeting at a school or program.

Consider aspects of the meeting that seemed to use any of the principles discussed in the chapter.

Consider aspects of the meeting that could have been improved by using specific ideas from the text.

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Parents as advisors and policy makers Parent cooperative schools Challenges of successfully including parents

in decision making

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Parent education may support families and is a responsibility of a supportive school.

When parents participate with professionals in planning the content, meeting style, and logistics, the parent education may more likely meet their needs.

Parents may participate in planning for their schools.

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