This document provides materials for an online course about education choices and family court. It includes links to audio recordings of a family court hearing in Maryland involving a social services caseworker's testimony. The document outlines course activities that ask students to analyze the caseworker's testimony and position, issues presented to the court, and questions that could be asked of various participants. It also provides a vocabulary list of relevant terms and instructions for an activity summarizing educational laws passed under President Clinton.

1. Education Choices and Family Court
2015 Fall Course: Week 3 and 4
eLearning Course Sampler of
A Time To Learn Academy
www.easysite.com/atimetolearn

2. Methodology
You may use the hearing-trial excerpts at
http://www.sherleneonline.com/our-education-choices--31/excerpts-of-a-family-court-trial-education-sample-tool-6767
Or, Audio of Family Court Hearing
Source: State of Maryland | Caroline County Court – Week 3 and 4 Case Hearing
Tapes
• Part 2, The Social Service Case Worker's Testimony
http://tobtr.com/s/7775675
• Part 3, The Social Service Case Worker's Testimony contd [I Want All Your Kids Enrolled in
the Local Public School ... "Seeking Jurisdiction"]
http://tobtr.com/s/7778229
• Part 4, Shore's Social Services of Kent County and Caroline County Doesn't Acknowledge
Participating Mother ... [Social Services Financial Assistance Programs Applications, etc.]
(Before or During Case) at http://tobtr.com/s/7781363
eLearning Course Sampler Instructor: Sherlene Stevens
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Course Description:
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4. Lecture – Week 3 and 4
Vocabulary
Each course week, create your own listing
of announced words that you had not heard
before taking this course. [Activity]
1. Department of Human
Resources (DHR)
2. Human maltreatment
3. Intake caseworker
4. Continuing caseworker
5. Child Protective Services
6. In-Home Family Preservation
7. Local departments’ of social
services
8. Safety and protection of kids
9. Age of minors (children)
10. Risk assessment
11. Safety planning
12. Service agreements with local
departments’ of social services
13. Caseloads
14. Family dysfunction
15. Family disruptions
16. Family self-sufficiency
17. Family independence
18. Family reunification
19. Out-of-home placement
20. Foster care
21. Crisis relief offered to families
22. Case jurisdiction

5. Lecture Activities Week 3 and 4
1. What was the position of the social worker during her testimony?
representing the court? representing the community?
representing the children? representing the mother-participant?
representing the father-participant? representing the parents’
family sets?
2. What issues or findings did the caseworker present that would
warrant the court’s attention? Factual or opinionated findings?
3. What did the social worker suggest was the mother-participant’s
issue/problem?
4. What are the job tasks of local departments’ of social services?
5. How do you help new neighbors to get adjusted to the social
culture in your given community?
6. What would be the position of the professional evaluator involved
in this court proceeding? What questions would they have for the
court? for the social worker? for the children’s state-appointed
lawyers? for the parents? for the maternal aunt?

6. Lecture Activities – Week 3 and 4
continued (Change questions)
7. What factual evidence would need to be presented to
the professional evaluator? Would this person need
permission to review such facts? What would be the
proper job title of the evaluator?
8. Should the external community have been able to be
seated in the court during the family hearing?
9. What is the relationship between the grandmothers’
and the kids involved? other external family members
of the family sets?
10. Do you believe the maternal aunt’s home style had
been seen, by the assigned caseworker, before the
hearing?

7. Lesson Activities – Week 3 and 4
Last Page
11. What other questions would you have asked the maternal aunt? the
caseworker? the parent participants?
12. How many children did the court want to take out of the parent
participants’ home style?
13. What was the function of the State and County’s Circuit Court
during this portion of the hearing?
Activity--Identify and review the educational laws or policies adopted
under former president William Clinton. Next, write a 2-page summary
of the laws. You will use your summary notes of all educational laws
described by former presidents on-going.
Note: There are a total of seven slides for Week 3 and 4.