Competency: Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services

Lesson Overview: Students will learn vocabulary associated with Child Protective Services. They will also know where and how to receive such services upon completion of this lesson.
This lesson plan includes:
  1. Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary
  2. Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary Matching
  3. Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Reading Comprehension
  4. Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary Flash Cards
  5. Referenced websites (optional)
  6. Pamphlets from local DSS agency (optional)

Approximate Time: 1 – 2 hours
Prerequisite Skills: Students must be able to read and write simple sentences, and have good command of the English language. This lesson is intended for higher-intermediate students.
Prerequisite Vocabulary:
care
child (children)
division
food stamps
ground(ing)
harm
inappropriate
Medicaid
proper
result
spank(ing)
Vocabulary:
child abuse
Child Abuse Reporting Law
child neglect
Child Protective Services (CPS)
counseling
Department of Social Services (DSS)
discipline
injury (injuries)
investigate(s) (investigation)
social worker(s)
supervision
suspect (suspicion)
Materials Needed: Whiteboard or flip chart, erasable markers, telephone book(s), handouts, and flash cards.
Equipment Needed: Multi-media computer with Internet access (for optional activities).
Activities:
  1. Explain the purpose of the lesson.
  1. Ask students what they already know about the Department of Social Services and Child Protective Services. Write their responses on the board or on a flip chart
  1. Briefly review the prerequisite vocabulary. Go over the new vocabulary. You may want to write the words on the board.
  1. Make sure that each student can correctly pronounce the new words by having them pronounce the words aloud as a group and then individually.
  1. Give the studentsKnow Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary. Carefully explain each word and make sure that students understand the meanings.
  1. Give the students Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary Matching. Students should complete this activity independently. Review answers orally.
  1. To educate students about DSS and Child Protective Services, use Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Reading Comprehension. Read the passage to your students. The new vocabulary words are in bold. Have students take turns reading the paragraphs. Answer any questions the students may have. Have students to answer the questions that follow the passage. Review answers orally.

Assessment/Evaluation of Learning:
  1. Instructor evaluation of students’ participation.
  1. Evaluation of student worksheets

Optional/Follow-up Activities:
  1. Use Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services Vocabulary Flash Cards for further vocabulary development. You may also have the students make up their own flash cards on 3” X 5” index cards.
  1. Visit North Carolina’s Division of Social Services website at: to learn more about the Department of Social Services and its Child Protective Services Division.
  1. Visit the Prevent Child Abuse of North Carolina at: to learn more about child abuse, child neglect, and reporting procedures.
  1. Have a social worker from Child Protective Services to visit your class. A good topic might be on the appropriate discipline of children. This information would be helpful to students who come from cultures that use more extreme methods of child discipline. It may even be a learning experience for the social worker, as well.
  1. Give students pamphlets from the local DSS and/or Child Protective Services.
  1. Give students additional information about the services that DSS provides. Invite a guest speaker from the Department of Social Services to visit class and answer any questions the students may have about DSS.
  1. Have students use local phone books to look up the phone number of the Department of Social Services.

2002-2003 ESL Special Project

CaldwellCommunity College and Technical Institute

Basic Skills Department

Competency: Know Where to Receive Child Protective Services 1