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Delivering Family Portfolios
This is a sample of the kind of learning that you will explore in the Delivering Family Portfolio course
Sample Chapter: Delivering Family Portfolios: Linking Community and Culture
The Family Portfolio Program
The Family Portfolio Program is a unique approach to help communities, schools and other organizations reach out to families who may be newcomers, immigrants, or isolated for other cultural or literacy reasons. This program provides families with opportunities to celebrate their strengths with one another, but also with those who operate and/or support the program. The Family Portfolio Program consists of six workshop sessions with intergenerational families working through common themes. The curriculum has been developed over three years and piloted with over 25 families.
A Family Portfolio Program brings families together to share with one another and participate in a range of cultural learning activities. Families identify the traditional roles of family within a culture, describe their social values and behaviors, determine ways to build stronger family and community relationships and discuss ways to keep culture and language alive. Families gather "evidence" of these goals and social values through a variety of activities over a number of weeks. They create is a binders or cultural readers depicting the strengths, common interests and goals of the family and the community. This portfolio is also a legacy for future generations and a link to the family education and employment goals for the future.
Parent feedback on Family Portfolios
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This father shares his reflections on how the Family Portfolio Program helped him, his family, and his community
Developing Family Portfolios course
Our Multimedia and Guided Learning Experience (magle) system gives you all the tools you will need to run an effective family portfolio program in your community. Each chapter walks you through a step by step process in an interactive and easy to follow program format.
The course includes chances for you to interact with text, videos, audio recordings, music videos, interviews, tools and sample program materials. Your personal journal reflection throughout the program, allows you to transfer new learning to your community context. You also can adapt the materials to meet the needs of families in your community.
This course is a practical guide to the Family Portfolio Program that allows families to build confidence and develop a sense of belonging in the community. Families leave the program with a portfolio or cultural reader that tells the stories of strength and accomplishment of their family.
Each of the six modules take approximately two hours to complete.
Families sharing
The content of the Family Portfolio Program is developed with participating families. And it often includes sharing food!
Families learning together
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This video shows families interacting giving feedback about the family portfolio course.
Outcomes of Delivering Family Portfolios course
Participants in the Delivering Family Portfolios course will:
Learn the process for building a unique learning curriculum
Gain strategies for recruiting community leaders to support the program
Practice curriculum development approaches
Learn how to facilitate the Family Portfolio Program
Have print copies of the curriculum for future use
Participants will also have access to the course content for at least six months after completing the course.
Family celebrations
Families celebrate a graduation event from the Family Portfolio Program
External credit
Course Registration Form
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On-Line Registration