Monday, February 27, 2012
Observing and Interacting With Families of the Children in Your Setting Observing and Interacting With Families of the Children in Your Setting
As I observed a Pre-k classroom I also had the opportunity to interact with a parent which I had known for 2 years. I have known this parent for two years now because I had her son in my Pre-k classroom. I then started to share a bit of information about what I was advocating for, "ESL/Literacy" and mentioned to her some ideas that I had that would help these students progress in class and help them in their overall success in life. One idea that I shared with her was that I would start planning team meetings with my colleagues to come up with activities using various types of literature to help children in their classroom understand what they are being presented with. Another point that I stressed to her was the importance of making our lending library more appealing and having more bilingual books available with easy to read text. As I mentioned this to her she started to smile and told me that she has noticed that our library doesn't have much that really interests children or parents either because they are filled with more words than pictures and some words in English and Spanish are hard to read . I then mentioned to her that I would bring this up with my director and see if we could order books with more pictures in them and simple easy to read text. This will interest both parents and children to take books home. I will also come up with ideas of how I can make our library more known to each of our children and their families!!!
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Maybe you should consider the idea of organizing the lending library into sections and labeling them for the parents? This will make it a lot easier for parents to choose the right type of book that they may be looking for. You can break it up into Spanish books, Spanish @ English books, short stories, long stories, picture books, books with cd's, community workers, animals, etc.
ReplyDeleteHello Sandra, I agree with Roberto, organizing the library and labeling it into sections will help to make the library more appealing. Also,I beielve that if your center introduced a reopening of the "new library" perhaps in a flyer it will help get the word out and engage the families and their children.
ReplyDeleteThank you both for the ideas, I appreciate your feedback and will make these changes. I will also work with my Director in ordering more Spanish books and cd's to go along.
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