High Parenting Skills

Major Topics and Concepts: 

• Define parenting and related terminology.
• Assess the roles, responsibilities, and rewards involved in being a parent.
• Differentiate diverse family units in society. 
• Compare the differences between lifestyles of today and the past.
• Analyze ways of strengthening the family unit.
• Explain ways to assist family members and caregivers in managing stress.
• Describe characteristics of nurturing parents and family members.
• Define family, multicultural, and ethnic diversity.  
• Define cultural bias, stereotypes, and prejudices and determine how each limits and/or interferes with effective parenting.
• Identify various types of abuse, neglect, and trauma and the effects they have on a child’s development and health.
• Analyze and determine similarities and differences among multicultural families.
• Analyze the positive and negative reasons for having children.     
• Determine the attitudes and characteristics that indicate personal readiness for parenthood.
• Describe the myths and realities of parenthood.

Students need to supply the following materials to complete the coursework:

• Disk space on your computer as well as an external device to back up your files (flash drive, external hard drive, etc.) 

• Word processing program (Microsoft Word or similar) 

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.  

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.