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Post by Gale Coleman on Jun 15, 2017 1:24:38 GMT -8
For lead teachers - How can you create a welcoming environment, encouraging staff to collaborate with children and their families?
Supporting and educating parents, and involving them in the care decisions about their children, are considered essential components for a family centered or family friendly child care center. The connections between staff and parents is important and initiating meaningful discussions with families so that administrators and teachers can be tuned into the family environment. Staff take the time to listen when families share information and to be thoughtful, patient, nonjudgmental and supportive. Centers that add a family friendly component to care, offer parents what they most want, a strong collaboration between families and staff with children as the focus. Child care centers have an interest in not only ensuring the well-being of children in their care, but to encourage families to use their services. And in helping families meet the challenges of everyday life, child care centers should create a positive, comfortable atmosphere in the center, with ways to provide care that best meets the needs of the families they serve.
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