BKED 360 Child, Family, and Community: Building Supportive Relationships

This course covers the importance of developing positive, reciprocal partnerships among families, children, schools, and communities through the use of evidence-based strategies. Emphasis is placed on developing skills and identifying benefits for establishing, supporting, and maintaining respectful, collaborative relationships between diverse families, programs/schools, and community agencies/resources. Emphasis on the role of formal and informal support systems, and effective family professional collaborative partnerships that are family-driven will be examined. Upon completion, students should be able to identify appropriate relationship building strategies between families, children, schools, and communities and demonstrate a variety of communication skills necessary for building positive home, school, and community partnerships to support every child.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

"C" or better in EDUC 250

Offered

As Needed