Teaching Parents to Do Projects at Home: A Tool Kit for Parent Educators - Softcover

Stacy Berg; Pam Scranton; Rebecca Wilson; Judy Harris Helm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807745502 ISBN 13: 9780807745502

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2005

Synopsis

This exciting new tool kit will help you to teach parents and other caregivers how to use the project approach at home. A companion to Teaching Your Child to Love Learning: A Guide to Doing Projects at Home, this book with accompanying CD-ROM provides everything needed to conduct a series of parent workshops.

The Tool Kit book provides:

• Sample agenda for workshops.
• Task sheets for activities.
• Handouts for participants.
• Notes for Featured PowerPoint Presentations on the CD.
• Adaptations for specific populations.
• Spanish versions of handouts and the Family Project Planning Journal.

The CD-ROM, which can be run on any PC, contains:

• PowerPoint Presentations on the phases of a project and other project topics that facilitators can use as a focus for presentation of material at each session.
• PowerPoint Presentations on each of the featured projects in the companion book to enable facilitators to share the projects in greater depth.
• PowerPoint Presentations on additional family projects from diverse settings.
• Printable versions in English and Spanish of all of the handouts and the Family Project Planning Journal.

About this title

From the Author

Judy Harris Helm assists schools and early childhood programs through her consulting and training company, Best Practices, Inc., Stacy Berg is an early childhood educator and the director of Northminster Learning Center in Peoria, IL, Pam Scranton is a classroom teacher in Discovery Preschool, and Rebecca Wilson has taught pre-kindergarten and kindergarten and served as coordinator of the Spanish Dual Language program in West Liberty, Iowa.

Review

“I have implemented the Tool Kit for Parent Educators with families and have had great success. At the completion of the projects, parents expressed how they enjoyed learning about the topic along with their children.”
Tammy Muerhoff, Parent Educator

“This book is essential for anyone using Teaching Your Child to Love Learning with parents. It is full of useful information and the logical layout takes you step by step through planning and implementation.
Nadine Meacham, Parent Educator

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0807745502
• ISBN 13: 9780807745502
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144