How children benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings
Overview
For this Performance Task, you will be adopting the role of the director of Scribbles Early Learning Program who is invested in supporting family engagement through culturally responsive practices. As a tool for furthering this goal, you have decided to hold two workshopsone for staff and one for families. These workshops will be designed to support staff and families in understanding 1) the importance of family engagement, and 2) how engagement can be fostered through culturally responsive strategies. For this Performance Task you will develop an outline for each workshop.
Submission Length: Two workshop outline templates, 1-2 pages in length each.
Professional Skills: Written Communication and Engaging Multiple Social and Cultural Perspectives are assessed in this Competency.
This Assessment requires submission of two files, a completed Family Engagement Workshop for Staff Outline and a completed Family Engagement Workshop Outline. Save your files as follows:
Save the completed Family Engagement Workshop Outline for Staff as CL3004_staff_ firstinitial_lastname (for example, CL3004_staff_J_Smith).
Save the completed Family Engagement Workshop Outline as CL3004_families_ firstinitial_lastname (for example, CL3004_families_J_Smith).
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Instructions
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RUBRIC
Promoting Family Engagement at Scribbles Early Learning Program
The Scribbles Early Learning Program is committed to supporting the development and learning of each child within the program community. Within each of the classrooms and the larger program, families are embraced as partners. As the director for the program, your goal is to work to enhance and strengthen the current model through integration of evidence-based practices. You have gathered information about the program, as reflected in the Scribbles Early Learning Center Program Description document. In your conversation with program staff, you have identified that although there are many opportunities and structures in place to support family engagement, the majority of families within Scribbles Early Learning Program are not presently engaged as partners in the early childhood classroom/program community. You have decided to develop two workshops, one for staff and one for families, with the goal of sharing information that will increase and enhance family engagement.
Part 1: Family Engagement Workshop for Staff
For this portion of your Assessment, you will complete a workshop outline for staff that promotes knowledge of culturally responsive practices that support family engagement. The objectives of your workshop include explaining:
Benefits of family engagement for families
Culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills that support family engagement
Culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented in early childhood settings to promote meaningful family partnerships and support family engagement
Part 2: Family Engagement Workshop
For this portion of your Assessment, you will complete a workshop outline for families that is designed to support their engagement within the early childhood environment. The objectives of your workshop include explaining:
How children benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings
Culturally responsive ways families can become meaningfully engaged in the Scribbles Early Learning Program
