SPEDE 77300 - Families, Parenting, and Family-Professional Partnerships: Theories, Research, and Practices (KC)

This yearlong course focuses on the significant influence of the family in early childhood learning and development and evidence-based strategies for creating and sustaining effective family-professional partnerships to optimize family and child outcomes in classroom, home, and community settings. The developmental process of parenting, family capacity-building approaches, and convergence of family and professional expertise to promote child learning and development will be examined across diverse cultures, languages, abilities, settings, and urban contexts.

prereq or coreq: SPEDE 770
Hours 3.0 (YL)
Credits 3.0 (YL)
Includes 5 hrs field experience.

This is a yearlong course.

This Key Course requires a grade of B or better to pass.
Any student who receives a grade of F or WU in this class will not be permitted to continue in the program.
This course may be repeated only once.