Title: Family Engagement: A Partnership Between Childcare Centers and Families - ChildWatch
Headings: Family Engagement: A Partnership Between Childcare Centers and Families
Family Engagement: A Partnership Between Childcare Centers and Families
Parent Involvement and Family Engagement: Why Both Matter
What do Parent Involvement and Family Engagement look like?
Parent Involvement
Family Engagement
What Parents Can Do
Importance of Communicating with Families

Content: Children are more successful learners when their parents are actively involved in their learning, both at home and at school. To support parents as partners, families are encouraged to be involved in their child’s educational process. Parents need and want to be involved from the onset in partnerships that serve their children best. So how do childcare centers make that connection? What do Parent Involvement and Family Engagement look like? PARENT INVOLVEMENT
When parents and caregivers are partners in their day-to-day activities, children thrive. Childcare staff work in collaboration with parents to offer each other support and insight into the lives of the children they care for and about. Because a child’s identity is rooted in his/her family, there is a level of security that comes with knowing parents trust teachers, and a mutual respect exists. Parent involvement occurs when parents participate in activities and take advantage of opportunities at their child’s early care and learning setting. This usually means that parents attend meetings or special events a program offers.