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Before planning an educational program, it is a worthwhile exercise to think about what you personally bring to the learning situation. You have many, many strengths. However knowing about every audience and every content area is difficult. As a parenting educator, you will want to think through areas in which you need additional assistance.

CLICK on the topics about which you would like additional information. They may lead you to additional Internet sites with more information. If you click on a link, you should use the browser BACK key to return to this site.

After you have reviewed your personal perspectives, click this button to start your evaluation workbook.

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• Teaching parenting and child development content
  Teaching Parenting and Basic Skills to Parents: What We Know
  University of Minnesota Extension’s parenting education resources
  University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension service general resources for parents and parent educators
  North Carolina State University Parenting Resources
  Wonderwise Parent
• Being resourceful locally
  Community Collaboration
• Evaluation
  CYFERnet Parenting Evaluation Tools
  From the University of Washington evaluation tools and forms
  From the University of Wisconsin Extension
• Teen parents
  Office of Adolescent & Pregnancy Programs
  Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS)
• Grandparents
  Grandparents as Parents – information, resources and a documentary that can be viewed online or as a podcast from the Idaho Public TV
  National Parenting Educator Network has links information for grandparents and professionals
  From NC State Extension’s Successful Families – parenting your child’s child
• Adult learners
  Training Toolkit – working with adult learners, Washington and University of California – San Francisco
  Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners, provides a variety of materials to help language and literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. However, it also has a section on parent education and family literacy. Developed by Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA)
• Diversity of culture, race, ethnicity
  From the Family Education Network is a series of articles and exercises for parents about teaching tolerance (valuing differences, talking about stereotypes and prejudice, etc).
  Culture and Parenting: a guide to delivering parenting curriculums to diverse families is a 26 page pdf document developed by the University of CA extension service that is a guide for practitioners to help assess the cultural sensitivity of programs and provide suggestions for more culturally sensitive programs. It covers topics found in many parent education programs that may vary by culture such as sleeping, communication and discipline.
  From NC State Extension’s Successful Families – Interest in other cultures enriches family life
  Native America links
  American Indian - This links is to a 65 page document that summarizes research and publications on early childhood for American Indian and Alaska Native children. This work was completed by US Health and Human Services and Head Start. It presents issues and observations followed by research findings in numerous areas including culturally appropriate practices, parent involvement, and teacher training to name a few sections.
  Cyfernet has a link to many links to information on trends, issues, support services, and materials
  The University of Missouri Extension has compiled a Guide to Parenting Education Resources for Hispanic/Latino Families. Most appear to be available in English as well as Spanish.
  Proyecto Vision is a bilingual website for Latinos with disabilities and has many links relevant to all Latinos about education, Health, Disability and Community.
  Latino Cultures and History
  Cibercentro
  IMDiversity
• Working with various Family Types
  Single, Divorcing, Step families and more
  The National Stepfamily Resource Center from the Auburn University’s Center for Children, Youth, and Families (CCYF) has information and links to resources for families.
  From NC State Extension’s Successful Families – single fathers
  From NC State Extension’s Successful Families – Blended Families
  Family village – a global community of disability-related resources. Specific to disabilities as well as different cultures/lots of links from one site.
• Working with various ages/stages of children
  infants, adolescents, teens and more

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