Home Base Programs Chapter 8

1. Home Base ProgramsChapter 8 Perry C. Hanavan

2. Home Start • Head Start added Home Start • Home considered the base • Use home visitors to help parents • parents as teachers • most programs were highly successful • few still exist

3. Parents as Teachers Program • Regularly scheduled personal visits by credential parent educators who provide information on the child’s development, model and involve parents in age-appropriate activities with the child and respond to parent’s questions • group meetings in which parents share insights and build informal support networks • Monitoring of children’s progress by both parents and home visitors to detect and treat any emerging problems as earl as possible • linking of families with need community services that are beyond the scope of the program

4. Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters--HIPPY • Developed in Israel • In 1999, there were 121 programs serving 15,000 families in 28 states, Guam, and DC • Multisensory program • Paraprofessionals conduct home visits bimonthly

5. Healthy Start • promote optimal child development • promote positive parenting • enhance parent-child interaction • ensure a health care home and full immunization • ensure use of community resources including family planning • prevent child abuse and neglect

6. Parent-Child Home Program--PCHP • family literacy program that relies on positive verbal interaction between the child, two to four years old, and the primary caregiver (verbal interaction program) • Vygotsky cognitive curriculum • home visitor demonstrates toys and books in a play session with parent and child • goal is to increase natural verbal interaction between child and caregiver

7. Homebuilders • collaborative effort between parents, social workers, therapists, psychologists, etc. • families in which children may have been removed by the courts • works closely with schools, juvenile court, and other social agencies • works with total family modeling counseling and other support systems

8. Portage Project Family centered demonstration program • intervention for children with disabilities beginning as early as possible • parent/caregiver involvement critical for success • intervention objectives and strategies must be individualized for each child and support functioning of family • data collection is important to reinforce positive change and to make ongoing intervention decisions

9. Children with Hearing Loss

10. Homeschooling • Instruction and learning, at least some of which is through planned activity, taking place primarily in a family setting with a parent acting as teacher or supervisor of the activity (Lines, 1991, p. 10) • During the 1980s, homeschooling began to increase • Account for 1.7 percent of U.S. students in 2001 • Typically White, non-Hispanic, have 2 parents with the mother as the teacher

11. Homeschooled Youth • Most perform well academically • Little risk in socialization, psychological development, and self-esteem • All states allow homeschooling • Computers and the Internet has become an important educational resource

12. Ten Reasons for Homeschooling • Can give child better education at home (48.9%) • Religious reasons (38.4%) • Poor learning environment at school (25.8%) • Family reasons (16.8%) • To develop character/morality (15.1%) • Object to what school teaches (12.1%) • School does not challenge child (11.6%) • Other problems with available schools (11.5%) • Student behavior problems at school (9.0%) • Child has special needs/disability (8.2%)

13. Homework • BJ Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper • Homework is a “task assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried out during non-school hours” (Cooper, 1994, p.2)

14. Homework • Students in lower grade levels should be given far less homework than in higher levels • Parent involvement in homework should be kept to a minimum • The purpose of homework should be identifiede and explained • If homework is assigned, it should be commented on

15. Teachers & Homework • Send homework that reinforces or enriches what was learned in class • Create meaningful assignments—not haphazard busy work • Explain the rules and regulations of homework (count for grades, etc?) • Provide a homework form that the student fills out in class that states the assignment, pages, or work sheets that are assigned • Grade all homework personally and display on bulletin boards to show students it is important • Communicate with parents to explain the process and respond to any difficulties the family may experience with homework • Teach study skills