Grandparent Education: A Guide for Leaders

Grandparent Education: A guide for Leaders is a valuable tool that effectively introduces potential leaders to the concept of grandparent education, helping them conduct successful courses using the guidebooks and viewpoints books in Becoming A Better Grandparent and Achieving Grandparent Potential. Granting the leader the benefit of their many years of designing and refining the grandparent education program, the authors describe the unique contribution that is provided by each element in the curriculum, illustrate some of the teaching practices that are effective with grandparents, recommend methods to organize and establish a program, and suggest ways to evaluate the success of the program. Specific topics include guidelines for encouraging productive group discussions with older persons, such as taking into consideration possible problems caused by hearing difficulties of older learners. Likewise, the authors make recommendations on how leaders can troubleshoot potential problems and how they can recruit program participants, with specific attention paid to how to attract grandfathers as well as grandmothers. It is especially useful for those interested in conducting a course in grandparent education who have had little professional training in being a group leader.Strom, Robert D. is the author of 'Grandparent Education: A Guide for Leaders' with ISBN 9780803945111 and ISBN 0803945116.