Teaching Teen Parents How Teachers Can Help

How Teachers Can Help Teenage Parents Educate Yourself about Teen Parenting Child Department of Education Website Educate the Students about Teen Parenting  Teach Teen Parents Website Offer Support Groups to Teen Parents  Teen Parent Connection Website

Child Department of Education Provides teacher preparation on how to interact with teenage parents.  Educates them on Erikson’s theory  Explains how to foster positive identification by doing things with a teenager that the teen finds fun.  Informs teachers how to schedule regular appointments with each teenager and her baby in a private conference area to discuss the mother’s needs and concerns as a person and as a parent.  Educates teachers on different support groups

Teach Teen Parents Educates students about teen parenting by offering: Lessons Crafts/Activities Classroom Tools Incorporating programs into schools that offer lessons and activities helps expectant parents become more prepared, better educated parents.

Lessons Reading Strategies Self-Esteem, Goals, Resources, Decision Making Pregnancy/Delivering Newborn Care/Feeding Child Development/Literacy Health, Guidance, Nutrition, Safety Parenting, Relationships

Crafts/Activities Ribbon Blanket Food Pyramid Serving Sense www.thegivingdoll.com Crafts Puzzle Crafts Puzzle Solution

Classroom Tools Teaching Strategies Grants Reading Reflections Office Forms About GRADS Seminars

Teen Parent Connection Teachers can provide student’s with this support group that:  teaches teen parents how to be better students, parents, and employees.  helps provide teen parent’s with housing and scholarships so that they can attend college  provides teen parents with communication with other teen parents.

Sources http://www.teachteenparents.com http://teenparentconnection.org/ http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/cg/pp/documents/erikson.pdf