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- Title: An Interdisciplinary Course to Prepare School Professionals to Collaborate with Families of Exceptional Children (Theory to Practice: Research, Models, & Projects)
- Author : Multicultural Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
Description
To help children succeed in schools, professionals must work with the family system since "the family is the child's first teacher" (California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2001, p. 48) and the benefits of involving families in educating children are evident in research findings (California State Board of Education, 1994; Henderson & Berla, 1994). School professionals include teachers, school social workers, school psychologists, school counselors, and school nurses. When professionals collaborate with families, they must understand and align their approaches with the world view of families from different cultures (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2001). In essence family involvement is an event of multicultural engagement. Therefore, training opportunities for future professionals to develop school-family-community partnerships will also enhance the development of their multicultural competence (Holcomb-McCoy, 2004).