Home School and Community

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2. What are characteristics in contemporary society
that impact families?
 Can you consider both positive and negative
aspects of these characteristics?
 How do all these factors in today’s world affect
teachers’ ability to work with families?
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3. “Ideal family” influenced by cultural images
 Diverse family structures
 Intimate, interdependent, shared goals
 Commitment, responsibility
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5. Commitment
 Communication
 Cope with change
 Spirituality
 Community and family ties
 Clear roles
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What is your definition of family? Does it
encompass all the families introduced in this
chapter? If not, how would you prepare yourself to
work with all families? What do have to think
about further?
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7. Increased marital instability
 Increased numbers of single parents
 Poverty and stress in single-parent homes
 Changes in role behavior for men and women
 Changes in life at home and work
 Mobility reduces community and family support
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8. Smaller families
 Increased rate of social change
 A child-centered society
 Stress of modern life—over commitment at work
and home
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9. Consider the effects on adults and children of
marriage instability and rise in single parent
families
 How have changes in expectations for male and
female roles changed life for families?
 What is the effect on children and adults of
increased stress and rate of social change?
 How do all of these factors affect teacher-parent
relationships?
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10. Need for understanding children’s and family’s
experiences
 Compassion for today’s families
 Realizing that form of the family may not relate
to family’s ability to function
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11. Families have specific pressures on them in
today’s world.
 Understanding the impact of these pressures is
crucial to teachers’ effective work with families.
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