- Recognising that parents are the experts when it comes to their children
- Tips to empower parents in their role as primary educators
- Adopting a strengths-based approach.
Module 2: Building Relationships
- Building relationships with parents in the initial stages
- Maintaining and developing ongoing relationships.
Module 3: Inclusion and Partnership
- The importance of an inclusive and accessible ECEC setting
- The importance of including fathers and extended family.
Module 4: Improving the Home Learning Environment
- Supporting parents to improve the home learning environment
- The potential of home visiting and sample home visiting policy.
Module 5: Supporting Transitions
- Common fears of parents and children
- Supporting smooth transitions – from home to ECEC service and from ECEC to primary school.
Module 6: Support with Childhood Difficulties and Referrals
- Identifying a concern
- Factors to consider and strategies to use when discussing an issue with parents.
The training and accompanying toolkit are based on CDI’s experience supporting parents through ECEC services in Tallaght. It was designed by Professor Emer Ring, Dean of Early Childhood and Teacher Education at Mary Immaculate College (MIC); Dr. Lisha O’Sullivan, Head of the Department of Reflective Pedagogy and Early Childhood Studies, MIC; and Shirley Heaney, National Programme Coordinator for the Leadership for INClusion in the Early Years (LINC) Programme, MIC.
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