Models of Interaction Between Family and School Systems

Content outline

The course deals with relationship between school and family . It teaches the different systemic theoretical tools that will help the future teacher strengthen this relationship. More specifically, students are taught the following moduls:

• Introduction to General SystemTheory
• Family as a system
• Historical account of the theoretical models of the  Family –school relationship
• Joyce Epstein’s School-Family-Community Partnership systemic model
• Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System model
• Psychological/emotional connectedness of the student to the school
• Collaboration between students and their parents to the school
• Parental involvement
• The school director as an agent of  the creation of the school climate.
• The importance of school as a factor  in the prevention of  psychopathology
• The teacher’s “therapeutic”  role.

Learning outcomes

Students will acquire the ability to deal with their relationship with the families of their students. More specifically:

1. They will have the theoretical tools that will help them build a relationship of cooperation between the school and the families of their students.
2. They will be able to  function as agents of prevention  for future problematic behavior  of their students
3. They will be able to deal with different crisis that may appear between families and the school or in families themselves.