Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Individualizing: A Plan for Success
Module 4
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| Contents | Preface
| Introduction
| Module 1
| Module 2
| Module 3
| Module 4 | | Professional Development | Resources | Training Guides | |
Responding to Children's Progress--The Ongoing Process Continues
Handout 27: Conference Checklist (continued)
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| 15. Discuss issues and concerns, new interests, and changing needs. 16. Involve the cultural interpreter or mediator as appropriate. 17. Set new goals for the child in all areas of development; make sure the goals are at an appropriate level--neither too advanced nor too easily achieved. 18. Develop new strategies for encouraging the child's development at home and in Head Start settings. 19. Ask open-ended questions to encourage families to share information and raise issues and concerns. 20. Explain how you will use information that families provide so they will know the importance of their contributions. 21. Listen carefully without interrupting or rushing the family member who is speaking. 22. Restate a family's comments and suggestions to make sure you heard them correctly. 23. Accept families' thoughts and feelings even if they are different from your own. 24. Use factual, objective information when sharing information with families; avoid preaching, blaming, criticizing, and judging. 25. Respect cultural preferences related to communication practices. Maintain an appropriate physical distance, eye contact, and tone of voice; respect response times to questions; use or avoid physical contact as appropriate. 26. Offer more than one suggestion when asked for advice about handling a specific situation and encourage families to work with you to develop effective strategies.
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| Ending the Conference 27. Summarize your discussions; use the cultural mediator or interpreter as appropriate. 28. Note the follow-up actions each person has agreed to take. 29. Review the goals and strategies planned during the conference.
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| Documenting the Conference 30. Take notes, with the family's permission, during the conference, especially when discussing a complex or difficult situation; explain to families that the notes will remind you to follow up on their concerns. 31. Complete a conference evaluation form by answering questions about what you did before, during, and at the close of the conference. 32. Document the new goals and strategies in the child's portfolio. |
Note: Review your responses on this checklist. Are there practices that you do not use now but would like to use? Are there practices you do not use because you believe they are unnecessary? Discuss the checklist with your Head Start colleagues.
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