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Helping Students Discover Identity
How can teachers help their students successfully negotiate the challenges associated with the different stages of psychosocial development? Using the Websites provided on the Online Learning Centre as a resource, describe some teaching strategies that could be used to foster independence, confidence, and risk-taking in students. In what ways do teachers inherently impact students’ character development through their daily interactions?

Adolescence: Change and Community
http://inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/darling/adolesce.htm
A must see site with in-depth ideas on a wide range of topics about adolescence including biological, social, and cognitive transitions

Facilitating the Child's Participation in the Social Environment
http://www.circleofinclusion.org/english/guidelines/modulefour/social/index.html
An extensive set of concrete resources to promote social development

Family Education
http://www.familyeducation.com/home/
A rich site that offers educational suggestions and tips for all age groups, at home, at school and at play.
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Involving Family in the Classroom
Research shows that family involvement greatly influences student attitudes, attendance, and academic achievement. Develop an action plan for involving families in your classroom in a variety of ways. What are some of the challenges in involving families, and how do you plan to overcome these?

School-Family Linkages
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/famncomm/pa100.htm
An outstanding website with discussions of school-family linkages by such leading experts as Joyce Epstein; includes illustrative cases and examples of schools that involve parents, as well as connections to many websites on school-family linkages.

A Dozen Activities to Promote Parent Involvement
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr200.shtml
A good place to start generating ideas about parental involvement.





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