Description
This course focuses on today's changing family dynamic. Today's classrooms are filled with culturally and ethnically diverse children and families. This course will provide students with information to help them identify families' needs, how to demonstrate respect with ethnically and culturally diverse families, how to discuss sensitive information, and how to work with families towards providing the best possible education for their child. Students will learn about the changing roles in today's families, how families differ in race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and religion, and how to work with these families and their children. Finally, students will learn about a variety of common immigrant groups in the U.S.