ECE FCR5
Issued by
Heartland Community College
Earners can describe culturally and linguistically responsive communication and collaboration strategies which facilitate culturally sensitive expectations for children’s development and learning and family engagement in assessment and goal setting.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Explain a broad repertoire of culturally responsive communication strategies for building reciprocal relationships and use those to learn with and from family members. Examples of communication strategies include: • linguistically appropriate daily communication, • information sharing, • solicitations for bidirectional communication
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Explain to families in culturally sensitive ways the various roles and the importance of all team members on IFSP and IEP teams. Examples of roles include: • child, • family members, • service providers
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Describe strategies that facilitate culturally sensitive expectations for children’s development and learning. Examples of strategies include: • Ages and Stages Questionnaire, • information on development milestones, • daily communication strategies
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Collaborate with colleagues as a part of IFSP and IEP teams
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Identify strategies that engage families as resources into their child’s curriculum and program, for example: • goal setting, • assessment, • problem-solving related to concerns and challenges • curriculum, • program development, assessment, and • transition planning
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Partner with families in the use of child assessment data to design individual goals for learners.
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CHLD 239 and CHLD 209
Standards
Supports communication with families in their preferred language
Partner with families and other professionals to support assessment-relate activities
Work with colleagues to conduct assessments as part of IFSP and IEP teams
Initiate, nurture and be receptive to requests for partnerships with young children, their families, and other professionals to analyze assessment findings and create individualized goals and curricular practices for young children
Engage families as partners for insight into their children for curriculum, program development, and assessment; and as partners in planning for children’s transitions to new programs