Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 7th Edition

A comprehensive guide for teachers to establish collaborative relationships with parents/families and the larger community. Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children offers pre-service educators practical guidance to establish strong links with families and the larger community that focus on making the learning experience more productive and more positive for all concerned. It gives school teachers, child care teachers, and other professionals the understanding and tools they need to work with family and community members to give children a rich education. This new edition helps students to develop a firm understanding of the context of childrens and their families lives, includes a number of outstanding pedagogical features designed to ensure teaching and learning success, and addresses and highlights areas of critical importance in education today.Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children 7th Edition is written by Patricia Scully; Michele L. Stites; Hilary Roberts-King; Chandler H. Barbour and published by Pearson.X.