Description
This interactive online learning experience teaches you what a strengths-based approach is and the reflective process to apply this approach in your work with families.
Module Outline
- Unit 1: Use a Strengths-based Approach
This interactive online learning experience teaches you what a strengths-based approach is, and the reflective process to apply this approach in your work with families. Estimated time to complete: 1 professional development clock hour. - Unit 2: Listen Actively
This interactive online learning experience provides an orientation to active listening, including being present, paraphrasing, and open and closed questions. Estimated time to complete: 1 professional development clock hour. - Unit 3: Take Informed Action
This interactive online learning experience talks about Relationship-based Practices, including the reflective process to use these practices in your work with families. Estimated time to complete: 1 professional development clock hour. - Unit 4: Practice: Building Relationships with Families
This 5-7 minute interactive simulation previews the experiences that will be available in each module via simulation to practice and enhance family engagement skills. Estimated time to complete: 0.5 professional development clock hour. - Unit 5: Practice: Starting with Strengths
This simulation includes a supervisor/staff conversation in which they reflect on the staff’s engagement with a family. Estimated time to complete: 1 professional development clock hour. - Companion Resources
Available through CECO or from the list below. - Learning Extensions Guide
This guide provides additional activities you can use to extend your learning about the content in the “Use a Strengths-based Approach” unit. It includes activities you can complete by yourself, with a partner, and with a group.
Visit the Family Engagement Toolkit landing page to learn more about earning professional development clock hours through California Early Childhood Online (CECO) and the ECE Workforce Registry.
Resources to Extend Learning
Professional development clock hours are not available for extended learning resources or simulations listed below. To receive professional development clock hours for these activities, click on the “Sign In and Start Module 2” button above and complete the toolkit units via CECO.
Use a Strengths-based Approach Document
This is a quick reference on the strategy Use a Strengths-based Approach and the tools Reflect and Inquire, and Apply the Strengths-based Attitudes (2 pages).
Listen Actively Document
These tips review what Listen Actively is and how to use the tools of Being Present, Paraphrasing, and Engaging Questions and Statements (2 pages).
Take Informed Action Document
Use this resource as a guide to working with the Relationship-based Practices to implement the strategy Take Informed Action in your work with families (1 page).
Practice: Building Relationships with Families SimulationSimulation
This practice is framed as a face-to-face role play in which learners will be able to choose what to say to the family and see how the family responds. This simulation focuses on an interaction in which the provider is engaging with a family to build their relationship.
You can earn professional development clock hours by completing it on CECO. Learn more about the available versions.
Practice: Starting with Strengths Simulation
This simulation includes a supervisor/staff conversation in which they reflect on the staff’s engagement with a family. Learners will have an opportunity to practice applying the Strengths-based Attitudes and Relationship-based Practices.
You can earn professional development clock hours by completing it on CECO. Learn more about the available versions.
Learning Extensions Guide Document
This guide provides additional activities you can use to extend your learning about and implementation of the strategies for building relationships with families. It includes activities you can complete by yourself, with a partner, or with a group.
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