You are to include a copy of the Assignment Statement for each activity at the beginning of your paper. Single space the statement, but double space your response.
ASSIGNMENT STATEMENT:
1. Interview a senior citizen (over 55) and determine whether he or she thinks family influence patterns have changed since his or her childhood. Discuss the changes and compare with the way it is today. (Chapter 2)
2. Survey the cultural and ethnic demographics in your community. How do your results compare with the overall U.S. populations? Discuss the demographics and give a comparison. (Chapter 3)
3. Select two diverse families in your community setting. What appear to be the social and cultural influences affecting them? Are there differences? What do you infer about the parenting practices in these families? (Chapter 4)
4. Interview several parents who use different kinds of child care arrangements. Determine how they feel about the care their child is receiving and the challenges they face navigating work and parenthood. (Chapter 5)
5. Consider a new teaching situation in which you must figure out how to build support for several children from families recently arrived int eh United States. You know that the families are struggling economically and trying to learn a new language and culture. Even though all three social settings bear responsibility, how can you best enhance educational opportunity for these youngsters? (Chapter 6)
6. List the kinds of trips that you took with your family when you were growing up. Include items such as shopping, visiting relatives, and recreation outings, as well as vacation trips. From your memory of the experiences, what did you think you learned (physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually) from these trips? (Chapter 7)
7. Take the matrix presented in Table 8-2 (page 216) and use it to assess teaching styles of your college instructors, high school teachers, other teachers you recall, and classroom teachers you are in contact with now. Include at least five examples. Which quadrant contains the most? (Chapter 8)
8. Observe two or more children playing together. Describe the scenario. What learning do you think is taking place in this interaction? What community resources could support or hinder what these children are learning? (Chapter 9)
9. Imagine that you are working on a new home-school-community collaboration. An official from your state board of education is visiting to view your districtÕs new plan. Develop an outline of your working partnership to show the visitor how the three social settings support each other. (Chapter 10)
10. Obtain from a school administrator (or parents of a school-age child) copies of newsletters sent home to parents. Discuss the kinds of information they contain. (Chapter 11)
11. Talk with three teachers about parent involvement in their schools. Have them describe the things parents do when they come to school. To determine the state of collaboration, relate their statements to the three levels of involvement discussed in this chapter. (Chapter 12)