Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook: Developing Family Partnerships
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This week, you will continue to develop your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook by completing the Developing Family Partnerships section. This week’s readings include Chapters 4-7 of the Gestwicki text and focuses on building family partnerships. Chapter 4 presents the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct (Links to an external site.) and Statement of Commitment, specifically describing the nine ideals connected to family involvement. These ideals support an early childhood education professional’s ethical responsibilities and commitments to the families in their settings. Using this chapter, as well as the content in the Gestwicki chapters and the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct (Links to an external site.), complete the Family Partnerships section and add it to your text-based or electronic Guidebook using the following requirements. An example of this section and requirements can be referenced in the Instructor Guidance.
Guidebook Setup: Last week, you chose either a text-based or electronic format for your guidebook. This week,
you will continue to develop your existing work by adding a new section titled, “Developing Family
Partnerships.” You will continue to build your Guidebook using your chosen format from last week.
Guidebook Developing Family Partnerships Section: For this section, you are going to develop nine personal statements of commitment, including action plans for how you will specifically develop family partnerships in your future or current role. For each of the nine NAEYC ethical responsibilities, specific to the family partnerships section, you will:
Summarize the NAEYC code of ethical responsibility statement.
Compose a personal commitment statement, specifically detailing how you will follow this code of ethics in your current or future role as an early childhood education professional.
Describe your specific plan, including action steps, of how you will address this commitment statement, referencing a source, book, website, article or community resource to support each statement.
Content Expectations:
Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook: Developing Family Partnerships Introduction: Set up your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook with a section titled “Developing Family Partnerships.” For this section, include an introduction that explains what is included and why partnerships are important for families.
Developing Family Partnerships Ideals: Using Chapter 4 of the Gestwicki text, specifically page 104 as a guide for the nine NAEYC Code of Ethics responsibilities to families, address the following for each of the nine ideals:
Summarize the NAEYC code of ethical responsibility.
Compose a personal commitment statement, specifically detailing how you will follow this code of ethics in your current or future role as an early childhood educator.
Describe your specific action plan to address this commitment statement, including at least four sources that support these statements. Your supporting sources can be an Internet resource, book, website, article, or community resource.
Writing and Formatting Expectations:
Resource Support: Writing is substantiated by at least four supporting sources.
Organization: Demonstrates logical progression of ideas within the writing.
Syntax and Mechanics: Writing displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
APA Formatting: Paper is formatted properly and all four sources are cited and referenced in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. APA title and reference pages are included.
Suggested Assignment Length:
In general, your assignment should be approximately three to four pages in length.
Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment:
Review your assignment, referencing the Grading Rubric, to ensure you have achieved the “Distinguished” levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook to Waypoint for evaluation no later than Day 7.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.