72.035 - Teaching Parent-Teacher Communication Through the Use of Online Modules

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Seven Educator Preparation Programs, in conjunction with a national accreditor developed a family engagement team to develop and test strategies to improve the communication skills of candidate teachers. The goals of the trainings were 1) to emphasize relationship building and proactive positive engagement and 2) to teach candidates to view families as assets and partners with teachers in their child’s education. Candidates participated in a mock parent phone call module or a parent-teacher conference video case study with an emphasis on diverse parents. Panelists will describe the study’s research framework, report the quantitative and qualitative data from the projects, and discuss how two universities’ integrated these modules into their curriculum.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Family, School, Community Partnerships

Chair

• Elizabeth Covay Minor, National Louis University

Papers

• Developing a Pedagogy of Enactment for Teaching Family Engagement - Claire Jacobson, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

• An Overview of the Initial Parent-Teacher Phone Calls - Kelly Lenarz, Trinity Christian College; Joy Meyer, Trinity Christian College

• Preservice Teacher Candidates' Experiences With Parent Teacher Conference Video Case Studies - Elizabeth Covay Minor, National Louis University; Arlene C. Borthwick, National-Louis University; Ayn Keneman, National Louis University

Discussant

• Joan M.T. Walker, National Science Foundation