Elliott Family Activity – “Quiz Show”
Materials:
Audience Response Cards
Line Journal Paper
Unlined Paper 11” x 14”
1 ½” Circles cut from construction paper
1 ½” Triangles cut from construction paper
Wall Chart Paper 27” x 34”
List of Handouts to Accompany the “Elliott Family Activity”
Audience Response Cards
Constitutional Traits
Definitions of “At Risk” and “developmental Delay”
“How to Solve Your Problems and Get Your Way” Script
Identification of Family, Resources, Priorities and Concerns
Individual Temperament Style
Process of Collaborative Consultation (Goal-Setting)
Temperamental Characteristics
The Adolescent
The Celebrities
Welcome
Description of Activity: “Quiz Show” is an activity that uses the metaphor of a quiz show, “How to solve your problems and get your way,” to guide professionals in culturally competent practices. Professionals gain an appreciation child-rearing approaches and constitutional traits that lead to respectful parent-professional relationships and a deeper understanding of the impact individual family cultures have on family concerns and goals.
Suggested “Quiz Show” Activity Steps:
Reading the Elliott Family Story:
- Co-trainers welcome participants and introduce themselves as co-trainers who are parent-professional partners and coordinators of he family-centered and activity-based curriculum.
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Co-trainers point out that the success of the Qualifying Curriculum for EI Professionals depends on the willingness of professionals to share their knowledge and expertise in five phases of each activity:
a. Reading the Family Story
b. Taking the Family Picture
c. Interacting with Other Participants
d. Writing about the Family
e. Reflecting on the Learning - Co-trainers remind participants that the Elliott Family Story is based on real family interviews. The Elliott Family, tell their story in the first persons, to ensure that participants feel the presence of the family.
- Co-trainers distribute the Elliott Family Story, and read the story aloud as participants follow along.
- Co-trainers distribute the Elliott Family Activity, Quiz Show, read the description of the activity, and remind participants that the objectives are integrated into this activity.
- Co-trainers inform participants that some handouts provided during the activity may be used directly as part of the active learning process and others are for information only.
- Co-trainers distribute markers, pastels and paper. Co-trainers ask participants to work in pairs and sketch “a family picture” from visual images of the Elliott’s story.
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Co-trainers ask participants to incorporate geometric circles and squares into their sketches: on the circles, the participates write family names; on the squares they write services the Elliott’s wants and issues they raise.
Interacting with Others Participants: - Co-trainers ask participants to take the role of the audience for Quiz Show that is bout to begin, which features a host and two contestants.
- Co-trainers distribute the “How to Solve Your Problems and Get Your Way” Script, asking participants to observe what the contestants do, as well as listen to the script, as they follow along.
- The co-trainers point out that this activity is a psycho-social dramatization that allows the audience to process feelings, as well as attitudes, about sensitive situations.
- The co-trainers instruct participants the Qui Show features two contestants, Mary and Rick Elliott and a host, Monty Murray, who also has been a service coordinator for many years, in the Early intervention program located in the town which the Elliott’s live.
- Participants are given an “Audience Response Card” that has three columns (a) How Rick Elliott tries to solve his problems, (b) How Mary Tries to solve her problems, and (c) What Monty Murray says to show his reaction to the Elliott family.
- The co-trainers, playing Monty Murray, explains that the contestants must answer the question, “How do you solve your problems and get your way?” and that the audience will fill out the “Audience Response Card,” as the contestants, Rick Elliott and Mary Elliott compete for prizes or services that mMary or Rick feel they need.
- Co-trainers and a volunteer from the audience read the Quiz Show “How to Solve Your Problems and Get Your Way” Script, as the audience looks on.”
- After the contestants have appeared, Monty Murray, instructs the participants (audience) to break into small groups and discuss their findings written on the Audience Response Cards; he mentions to the audience that he, as a long-term resident of the community, questions whether the Elliott’s are entitled to any prizes, because they seem different and uncooperative.
- Co-trainers encourage the groups to evaluate their finds and assess the Elliott’s values and cultural practices, based on their upbringing and background.
- Co-trainers ask the groups to reconvene and identify other factors and strategies Mary and Rick use and the way they feel they must act, in order to get the prizes (services) they want.
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Co-trainers pose two questions: (a) how does prior professional training or current experience affect value judgments and service deliver, including decision-making? (b) how does cultural knowledge about families with whom professionals work determine how health care services are delivered to families?
Writing about The Elliott Family: - Co-trainers ask participants to go back to their small groups and work together to write a summary statement of attitudes and empowerment strategies that Monty Murray, as a service coordinator might prefer to employ, if the Elliott family was eligible for services and requested him as a professional, because they had met him before—on the Quiz Show.
- Each group shares its joints statement with the group, at the conclusion of the activity.
- Co-trainers u the remaining handouts that serve as a “refresher” or summary of the Laversa family concerns and dilemmas.
- Co-trainers give participants journal paper and ask them to write a brief entry, which is their individual response to how service options and supportive behaviors will produce positive results as seen the “Building” process, just completed.
