1. Teaching Teen Parents
How Teachers Can Help

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

6. Crafts/Activities Ribbon Blanket Food Pyramid Serving Sense
Crafts Puzzle
Crafts Puzzle Solution

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

8. 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.

9. Sources http://www.teachteenparents.com