Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Individualizing: A Plan for Success
Module 2
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Creating Essential Partnerships--Families and Staff Working Together
Handout 9: Building on a Family's Strengths (continued)
- How does each member of this family encourage the children's development?
- How might the family's scheduled activities (work, caring for other children, school, training) affect their availability to regularly share information about the children?
- How can Head Start staff take advantage of built-in daily, weekly, or monthly opportunities to communicate with this family?
- Where could communication take place (for example, at the center, at the family's home, by telephone, or in another location)?
- Based on the description of this family, what information might Head Start staff and the family share during the screening process and through ongoing assessment?
- What information will the staff and the family need to plan and implement an individualized program?
- What information might the staff and family collect and discuss through ongoing assessment?
- In addition to Giselle, which family members could play a role in individualizing the Head Start program for these children? How could they be involved?
- What else might the Head Start staff like to know about the adults and children in this family that would help them collaborate with the family to develop an individualized program?
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