Chapter’s 12 focus was around working with families and communities. It is important for centers to make this a goal because families are a child’s first teachers. I learned there three approaches centers take in working with families. Parent involvement, school/family partnership, and family engagement. With family engagement being the approach centers use for the hard-to-engage families.

2. Next I learned about some benefits and challenges of working with the family. It is important for families and centers to work in harmony. This will benefit the child’s development. I thought about when a child has a learning issue. The teacher might address the parent so that they can not only work on it at the center but at home as well. That