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Monday, May 23, 2005

Monday, May 23, 2005. Family Literacy 101 Presented by Jon Lee – Assistant Professor of Education, Bellarmine University. Who is This Guy?. Jon Lee.

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Monday, May 23, 2005

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  1. Monday, May 23, 2005 Family Literacy 101Presented by Jon Lee – Assistant Professor of Education, Bellarmine University

  2. Who is This Guy? Jon Lee

  3. The mission of the National Center for Family Literacy is to expand the number and improve the quality of family literacy services, creating educational and economic opportunity for parents and children at the lowest ends of the literacy and economic continua.

  4. NCFL’s Work • Training and technical assistance • Advocacy and policy development • Research and evaluation • Model program development • Information to educate the public and help practitioners learn from each other

  5. Literate You

  6. Today’s Objective • Develop an understanding of the interconnectedness of a comprehensive family literacy program.

  7. Comprehensive Family Literacy • Adult Education • Children’s Education • Parent Time • Parent and Child Together Time (PACT Time)

  8. Federal Definition • “The term 'family literacy services' means services that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family and that integrate all of the following activities: The 105th Congress (1997-1998)

  9. Federal Definition • Children’s Education • An age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences

  10. Federal Definition • Adult Education • Parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency

  11. Federal Definition • Parent Time • Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and full partners in the education of their children

  12. What it is… What it is not…

  13. Purposes? • Share information and new ideas • Offer encouragement and support • Provide advocacy and referral • Help parents set goals

  14. Parent Time Format • Welcome • Topic review • Parent time topic • Opening activity • Central ideas and practice • Application • Closure

  15. Perfect Parents?

  16. Federal Definition • Parent and Child Together (PACT) Time • Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children

  17. What it is… What it is not…

  18. Purposes • Aid parents in discovering • Enhance parents’ awareness • Give parents tools • Provide an opportunity to practice • Help parents feel comfortable

  19. Infants & Toddlers • Parents and staff prepare (focus) • Parents and children work and play (focus activity) • Literacy experience • Parents review and reflect

  20. Preschoolers • Parents and staff prepare • Parents and children plan • Parents and children work and play • Parents and children review • Circle time and transfer to home • Parents review and reflect

  21. Elementary Students • Parents and staff prepare • Parents and children plan (when possible) • Parents and children work • Parents and children review • Transfer to home • Parents review and reflect

  22. What is the Point? • Children’s language and literacy development

  23. Power and Pleasure of Literacy The Literate Environment Knowledge of Print Language Development Phonological Awareness Types of Text Knowledge & Comprehension Letters & Words Early Writing

  24. Building a Connection

  25. Component Integration • The central focus of component integration is the skills, concepts and experiences necessary to promote literacy development – not a theme.

  26. Intentional Planning • Assessment • Parents interests and needs • Curriculum • Intentional & flexible • Instruction • Integrated with all components

  27. Lesson Planning • Regular, fixed schedule of curriculum objectives • Flexibility needed to respond to the interests and needs of families

  28. Mission Possible: RFP! • Reflect the federal definition • Include training allocation in your budget • Specific data collection and management

  29. Tricks of the Trade • Specific eligibility criteria • Family focus • Based on their interests and needs • Regular / fixed schedule of curriculum objectives

  30. Tricks of the Trade • All staff • PT is like AE • PACT is like CE • Integrate adult academic content (reverse integration) • Be focused, intentional and purposeful

  31. Who You Gonna Call? • Jon Lee • jlee@bellarmine.edu • National Center for Family Literacy • famlit.org

  32. Foundations in Family Literacy • Foundations in Family Literacy, the premier training in NCFL’s new Family Literacy Professional Development System, provides beginning family literacy practitioners with the foundation needed to understand comprehensive family literacy.

  33. Children’s Education • Infant & Toddler • Preschool • Elementary

  34. Adult Education • Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction • Using Learner Stories for Language and Literacy Outcomes: Focus on ELL • Work Focus Strategies; Proven Results & Design

  35. Thanks Very Much!

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