A great staff training resource for creating "family friendly" school-age programs. Divided into three sections, this book provides staff training activities for reaching out to parents as partners; tools for assessing the needs, interests and concerns of parents; and tips for making connections with parents. These guidelines help staff come up with creative approaches for working with parents in their programs.

Building Relationships With Parents & Families in School-Age Programs: Resources for Staff Training & Program Planning

Education & Teaching

Roberta L. Newman

Schools & Teaching

School-Age Notes

An easy-to-use tool for school-age program directors with limited time and resources to help new staff "get up and running quickly" with their responsibilties. Each section of the handbook provides interactive questions and scenarios which staff can work through independently, along with an Answer Guide that provides possible answers and ideas for responding to scenarios. The book also includes 13 Characteristics of School-Age Staff with the Right Stuff, 22 Things Staff Should Know About Their Job and Program, 10 Ways to Help Kids Follow the Rules, 13 "Back Pocket" No-Prop Activities, 12 Techniques to Diffuse or Reduce Conflict and MORE!

Training New After-School Staff: Welcome to the World of School-Age Care

This book was first published in 1998. This new edition continues to emphasize that creating positive relationships with parents and families is the foundation for strong, ongoing partnerships between parents/families and afterschool programs. Still divided into three sections, the new edition includes revised and expanded learning activities and answer guides to reflect current issues and concerns; revised and expanded handouts; enhanced and expanded tools for assessing parent needs and concerns; new and expanded tip sheets for building connections with parents and families; and a selected reference list.

Building Relationships with Parents and Families in School-Age Programs: Resources for Staff Training and Program Planning (2nd Edition, Revised)

A guide designed to help staff in after-school programs explore and understand the influencing factors and characteristics of children with ADD. It provides "hands-on" practical strategies for making adjustments that result in a more harmonious match between children's capabilities and program expectations

Helping Children and Youth with Attention Deficit Disorder Succeed in After-School Programs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Newroads Media

In her latest book, Creating Portfolios with Kids in Out-of-School Programs, Roberta Newman gives staff new tools for tuning in to the needs and interests of school-age children. The book includes: Developmental Checklists for three different age groups (5 to 7 year olds, 8 to 10 year olds, and 11 and 12 year olds). Guidelines for conducting and documenting observations of individual children and youth in school-age programs. Tips for collecting representative items to build individual Portfolios with children Ideas for using Portfolios throughout the year to build a representative record of individual of children s work and play for use by staff, children and youth, and parents. Ideas for sharing Portfolios with parents who don t have an opportunity to see their children in action in programs. Suggestions for using Developmental Checklists and Portfolios as tools for enhancing and improving program quality. A supplementary section that provides examples of completed Developmental Checklists for two different children and sample items that could be included in Portfolios for these children. If you want to stay in touch with the needs, interests, talents, and abilities of children and youth in your program, this book is for you! Use it to help ensure that individual children in your program don t get lost in the crowd.

Creating Portfolios with Kids in Out-of-school Programs

The Business and Career Exploration Program represents a state of an art initiative and first of its kind that provides elementary school aged children with reality based life experiences of business and career options through innovative class presentations, learning projects, visitations and special corporate incentives. The program reignites the flame and dream of what our children's lives can become.

Business and Career Exploration Program for Elementary School-Age Children Curriculum Manual: A Program of the Interfaith Social Change Movement

Steven T. Robinson

Business & Money

AuthorHouse

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