Title: Foster reciprocal interactions with families.
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services II (19153-II) > Section: Promoting Supportive Relationships with Families

Fostering reciprocal interactions should include

- items of general interest to families
- one-on-one contact suggesting research-based strategies to deal with any concerns that emerge
- resources and child development information that may be shared through the appropriate medium (e.g., newsletter, website, personal conference, progress report).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What information should early childhood professionals communicate to families?
- What communication methods are most effective in sharing information with families?

Communication

- Which information is appropriate to share with families?
- What does it mean to share an unbiased observation?

Leadership

- What should be done to ensure the information shared with families is accurate?

Management

- What are the consequences of sharing information that is not accurate or developmentally inappropriate?
- Why is it important for communication with families to be both timely and frequent?