Information for Faculty

Family involvement in education has been proven to have a significant positive impact on student achievement. The Family as Faculty program seeks to enhance the skills of educators and other professionals to effectively collaborate with and understand families. This proven and effective model is being replicated with support from existing programs at the University of South Florida (Dr. Sally Wade) and the University of North Florida (Dr. Kathryn Krudwig).

Family as Faculty prepares family members who have experience with exceptional student education or early intervention program services. These family members are provided guidance on selecting and crafting a positive message for future and current educators. They are then asked to serve as guest lecturers in college courses throughout the local five county region. Each guest lecturer is required to complete a six hour training which includes practice of their presentation. The presentation is 20 – 30 minutes long followed by a question and answer period.

We are building a pool of diverse family members and want to make you aware of this resource. We hope you will request one of our presenters for your upcoming courses. Below you may download a project brochure, a speaker directory, and a presenter request form. We look forward to supporting you in enriching your syllabi.

The documents below are in Portable Document Format (PDF). To open them, you must have adobe reader. If it is not installed in your computer, then you can download it from adobe website (Adobe Website) for free.

Guest Faculty Member Request Form (pdf - 81kb)                     Brochure (pdf - 248kb)