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BEEP Goals for Parents
1. Understanding Your Child
- Share your knowledge of your child and family's culture with the teaching staff.
- Be aware of the various aspects of your child's educational program and of his/her strengths, successes, enjoyment and needs.
- Understand that normal child development results in different temperaments, interests, skills, abilities and conflicts at different stages of growth.
2. Recognizing Your Style and Needs as a Parent
- Acknowledge your specific strengths as a parent.
- Recognize and acknowledge the effects of your attitudes and actions upon your child's behavior.
- Take steps, when necessary, to preserve your own sense of well-being and confidence in your role as a parent.
3. Serving as a Resource, Facilitator and Advocate for Your Child
- Contribute your insights, questions and assessment of your child's strengths and needs to the teaching team.
- Seek support from appropriate school and health personnel when needed.
- Display child management skills by considering alternatives and by having consistent and reasonable expectations for behavior.
- Provide an environment that is safe and nurturing as well as compatible with your child's needs.
4. Recognizing Your Role of Partnership with Teachers
- Share on-going, pertinent information with the teacher so your child's needs can best be met.
- Support the classroom daily routine.
- Learn about your child's school activities through reviewing your child's work and classroom displays, and reading curriculum notes and newsletters.
- Acknowledge the effects of stress at home on your child's behavior.
- Participate in the Parent-Teacher Contract activities/meetings.
Mission Statement - Brookline Early Education Program
It is the mission of the early childhood programs of the Public Schools of Brookline to provide an inclusive environment where all children from ages three to five can learn social competency, develop cognitive motor and language skills and expand their understanding of themselves and the world in which they live.
