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Welcoming Hispanic Children and Families to Preschool Programs
Cristina Sanchez-Lopez, Education Consultant
Online Resources
- Hispanic Parent Involvement in Early Childhood
Programs
La participación de los padres en los programas preescolares
This Digest notes that to improve Hispanic parent involvement early childhood educators need to increase their understanding of those features of Hispanic culture that influence parenting practices, communication, and concerns with formal education.
English: http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1995/espino95.html
Spanish: http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1995/parti95s.html - Selecting Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate
Materials: Suggestions for Service Providers
Seleccionando materiales adecuados cultural y lingüísticamente: Sugerencias para los proveedores de servicios
This Digest discusses how to identify and select culturally and linguistically appropriate materials (e.g., books, brochures, pamphlets, fact sheets, and multimedia) for parents and family members.
English: http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1999/santos99.html
Spanish: http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/2000/santos00s.html - Hispanic Parental Involvement in Home Literacy
Noting that Hispanic parents may experience problems as they work with their children's literacy development, this Digest discusses resources that provide useful information for parents, teachers, and administrators.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/hispanic.htm - How to Reach Out to Parents of ELLs
Hispanic parents sometimes hesitate to become involved with their child's preschool because of language and cultural differences. This resource lists ways to reach out to parents. It includes video clips.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/reachingout/outreach - Culturally Responsive Parental Involvement: Concrete
Understandings and Basic Strategies
This resource discusses culturally biased beliefs that many educators have toward their students and their students' families.
http://www.aacte.org/Publications/kinggoodwin.pdf - Pat Mora on Reaching Out to Latino Parents
In this interview, Pat Mora, a Mexican American children's author and poet, suggests that sometimes fear of the unknown can keep parents away from outreach programs. She suggests ways to make them feel welcome.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/reachingout/welcoming - Learning about Your Students' Backgrounds
Hispanic families may represent many different cultures. Learning about their language, culture, values, and home environment may make it easier to reach them. Learning some of their language, even if it's just a few words and phrases, is a start.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/pdfs/articles/phrases.pdf - Working Together
¿Como Trabajar Juntos?
Teachers and child care providers can use this worksheet to help them understand a parent's beliefs about children.
English: http://www.nncc.org/Families/work.togthr.html
Spanish: http://www.nncc.org/Business/sp.trab.juntos2.html - What Are My Parental Rights and Responsibilities When
My Child Is in Child Care?
¿Cuáles son mis derechos y mis responsabilidades como padre de familia cuando mi niño se encuentra en la guardería infantil?
This resource discusses what parents should expect from child care providers as well as the responsibilities parents have toward child care providers.
English: http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/rights_respons.html
Spanish: http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/sp.derech_resp.html - When There Are Problems with
Your Child's Care
Cuando hay problemas con los cuidados de guardería de su niño
Teachers need to hear from parents when they are concerned about their child's care. This resource suggests ways that parents can talk with staff about their concerns.
English: http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/probcare.html
Spanish: http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/sp.cuandoprobl.html - Latin Families: Getting Involved in Your Children's
Education
Familias Latinas: Participando en la educacion de sus hijos
What do schools mean by parent involvement? How can parents work with preschools and schools? This Digest discusses many of the questions that Hispanic or Latino parents may ask.
English: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/digests/99april.html
Spanish: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/digests/99march.html - La biblioteca pre-escolar
This preschool library Web site contains activities and booklists in Spanish that can be shared with parents.
http://www.storyplace.org/sp/preschool/preschool.asp?themeid=13 Nota del Editor: Este sitio de Internet ha cambiado a otra dirección:http://www.storyplace.org/sp/preschool/preschool.asp - International Children's Digital Library
This Web site provides links to free online children's books from many cultures and in several languages.
http://icdlbooks.org/ - Bilingual Books for Children Book List
Scroll down this list for a selection of children’s books that include both Spanish and English.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/booklists/bilingualbooks.cfm
Illinois Early Learning Tip Sheets
- Cinco consejos acerca de
escoger un programa preescolar
Five Tips on Choosing a Preschool
Spanish: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/preschoolchoice-sp.htm
English: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/preschoolchoice.htm - ¡No te vayas por favor! La
ansiedad de separación y los niños
Please Don't Go! Separation Anxiety and Children
Spanish: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/sepanxiety-sp.htm
English: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/sepanxiety.htm - El primer día de preescolar de
su hijo
Your Child's First Day in Preschool
Spanish: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/firstday-sp.htm
English: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/firstday.htm - ¿Está mi hijo muy enfermo para
ir a la guardería?
Too Sick to Go to Child Care?
Spanish: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/sickchild-parents-sp.htm
English: http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/sickchild-parents.htm - Helping Your Child Learn in Two Languages
Spanish: http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/bilingual-sp.htm
English: http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/bilingual.htm
ERIC Database: Selected Records
To search the ERIC database for resources on this topic, use this search strategy: Hispanic Americans. Combine with early childhood education or preschool education. Combine with parent participation or family school relationship.
How to Obtain ERIC Documents and Journal Articles:
References identified with an ED (ERIC document)or EJ (ERIC journal) are cited in the ERIC database. ERIC Documents (citations identified by an ED number) may be available in full text from ERIC at no cost at the ERIC Web site: http://www.eric.ed.gov. Journal articles are available from the original journal, interlibrary loan services, or article reproduction clearinghouses.
If you would like to conduct your own free ERIC database searches via the Internet, go directly to http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=advanced
- ERIC Journal No.: EJ521598
Increasing Involvement of Hispanic Parents
Author(s): Hughes, Marie Tejero
Source: LD Forum, v21 n1 p16-19 Fall 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Abstract: This article offers suggestions for increasing the involvement of Hispanic parents in their children's education, including 10 specific reading and writing activities identified by Hispanic parents as easy to implement. - ERIC Journal No.: EJ665048
Hispanic Parents' Participation and Attitudes towards the Head Start Program and Its Services
Author(s): Behrens, Mariana; Bryant, Beverly A.; Mason, Sylvia A.
Source: Journal of Early Education and Family Review, v10 n2 p18-25 Nov-Dec 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Abstract: This study examined the level of participation in and attitudes toward the Head Start program and its services among Hispanic parents in two North Carolina counties. - ERIC Document No.: ED425131
Bridging Cultures between Home and School. A Handbook with Special Focus on Immigrant Latino Families
Author Affiliation: Bridging Cultures Project, CA
Publication Date: February 1998
Availability: Full text available from http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Abstract: This handbook explores ways that very different value orientations (individualism, associated with the mainstream culture, and collectivism, associated with immigrant Latino cultures) lead to very different expectations of child development and schooling. It also offers many examples of ways to bridge the cultures of home and school through increased understanding, improved communication, and novel educational practices. - ERIC Document No.: ED406466
Forging Home-School Partnerships with Latino Families
Author(s): Pappas, Georgia
Source: LARASA/REPORT, Mar 1997
Publication Date: March 1997
Availability: LARASA, 309 W. 1st Avenue, Denver, CO 80223 (1 year subscription, $12; reports, $2 each).
Abstract: Latino parents can and do establish effective partnerships with schools once cultural unawareness and communication gaps are overcome. School involvement can become more relevant to Latino families when it is intergenerational and includes extended family members.
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