Proposal Title
Culturally Responsive Relationships: Educational Professionals and Special Needs Parents
Abstract
This presentation will feature research–informed approaches for working through issues and barriers to establish and improve culturally responsive collaborative parent–professional partnerships. Suggestions will include strategies to evaluate the family’s educational needs from a culturally responsive perspective, address personal assumptions and judgments of both partners, and offer successful training models and characteristics that foster trusting, respectful, reciprocal parent–professional partnerships. Suggestions & further resources are provided.
Start Date
24-3-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
24-3-2017 2:50 PM
Presentation Type
Paper
Disciplines
Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Teacher Education and Professional Development
Culturally Responsive Relationships: Educational Professionals and Special Needs Parents
U-Hall 3-100
This presentation will feature research–informed approaches for working through issues and barriers to establish and improve culturally responsive collaborative parent–professional partnerships. Suggestions will include strategies to evaluate the family’s educational needs from a culturally responsive perspective, address personal assumptions and judgments of both partners, and offer successful training models and characteristics that foster trusting, respectful, reciprocal parent–professional partnerships. Suggestions & further resources are provided.
