FAMILIES LEARNING TO TEACH PROGRAM

In Chicago Lawn and Little Village

Universidad Popular’s Families Learning to Teach (FLT) program is a place where families came together to learn to teach to connect to one another and to build stronger families and healthier communities. Its’ goal is to make parents not only their children’s first teacher, but also their best.        

Our FLT Four Components:

Adults as Learners of the English language and the US Culture to better communicate with their Children’s school teachers, nurses, doctors and others.

Children as Learners : FLT prepares children to succeed in school just as well as children coming from better educated households.

Adults as Parents: A sizeable proportion of adults get into parenthood by accident or with no preparation whatsoever.  This is one of the reasons why FLT chooses to do a great deal of parenting skills development work in the community.

Adults and Children Together: FLT prepares parents to become their children’s “teachers”, despite their lack of academic training or certification.