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A grandfamily is defined as: - correct answer ✔✔a grandparent-led household
This term identifies children being reared by relatives other than parents or grandparents: - correct
answer ✔✔kinship care
Traditional school-centric approaches focus on: - correct answer ✔✔getting information to families
about school goals
Miss Nelson would like to increase attendance at family-focused events such as family learning nights.
What evidence-based action should she use to increase the likelihood that attendance will increase? -
correct answer ✔✔work on developing trusting relationships with individual families
Research has found teacher barriers to family engagement include all of the following EXCEPT which
one? - correct answer ✔✔under-educated families
Which of the following is the best example of an inclusive family engagement activity? - correct answer
✔✔Family Talent Show
It was suggested that culturally responsive administrators influence family engagement in all of the
following ways EXCEPT: - correct answer ✔✔mandating family attendance at school events
A family of four with a household income of less than $10,000 per year defines which socioeconomic
level? - correct answer ✔✔extreme-poverty level
Research has identified the following benefits to families as a result of their engagement in children's
education: - correct answer ✔✔- greater satisfaction with their children's schools and teachers,
- increased family efficacy,
, - and increased understanding of child growth and development
U.S. Census Bureau projections show that future teachers can expect: - correct answer ✔✔- more
students from multiracial families,
- increased use of technology to communicate with students and families,
- increased number of immigrant families,
- and increased number of students experiencing parents' divorce
The principle of wholeness in family systems theory says: - correct answer ✔✔families are dynamic in
nature; what affects one member affects all members.
Which of the following best reflects a funds-of-knowledge approach? - correct answer ✔✔A teacher asks
families to share their interests, hobbies, occupations, and abilities with the class.
James Comer's School Development Program focuses on: - correct answer ✔✔the total developmental
needs of the child (student).
A ___________ occurs when parents place the blame for all their financial, marital, or other problems on
their child's attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) behaviors: - correct answer ✔✔perverse
triangle
In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model, direct interaction with the child happens in the
_____________________________. - correct answer ✔✔microsystem
In a well-functioning family, major decisions are based on: - correct answer ✔✔adults' understanding of
what is best for all, although adults may share some decisions with their children.
It is important to understand that all family systems: - correct answer ✔✔adapt to change over time to
stay healthy.
Enmeshed families are: - correct answer ✔✔overbonded and underbuffered.