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 workshops—one 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
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
Access the following to complete this Assessment:
RUBRIC
- Scribbles Early Learning Center Program Description
- The Family Engagement Workshop for Staff Outline
- The Engagement Workshop for Families Outline
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
Engagement Workshop for Families
Outline
Three ways children can benefit from family engagement: (Explain each benefit in 3-4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important.)
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Five culturally responsive opportunities for meaningfully engagement in our program at Scribbles: (Explain each culturally responsive opportunity for meaningful engagement in 3-4 sentences including how each opportunity represents culturally responsive practice.)
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Family Engagement Workshop for Staff
Outline
Three ways families can benefit from family engagement:
(Explain each benefit in 3-4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important.)
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Three culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills that support family engagement: (Explain each culturally responsive communication and collaboration skill in 3-4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important.)
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Five culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented at Scribbles to promote meaningful family partnerships and support family engagement:
(Explain each culturally responsive practice/strategy in 3-4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important.)
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Scribbles Early Learning Center
Program Description
Scribble’s Early Learning Center is an early childhood program serving young children, from 12 weeks birth through 5 years old and their families in Hansvale, Minnesota. Hansvale is a richly diverse community and the program staff is committed to ensuring that the diversity of the community's children and families is supported in their program.
Program staff believes that families in the program are essential partners and is committed to creating bridges between the early childhood program, the classrooms, and each child’s home. Families are encouraged to participate in volunteer activities within the program and daily conversations occur regarding children's development and learning. Families also have opportunities to participate in developing goals based on their children’s development and learning. As well, families are welcome to participate in program and classroom-level decision making. Conferences are held with families on a semiannual and “as needed” basis. Teachers use conference time to gather information from families about their hopes, dreams, and goals for their children. Feedback is regularly sought from families about how they feel the program and classroom are supporting them and their child’s development. Modifications to programming and classroom activities are made on an “as needed” basis.
At the beginning of the year, every classroom teacher conducts home visits to learn about each child and family. These home visits are seen as an essential strategy, key to understanding who families are and how they live their lives. Careful attention is taken to create environments that meaningfully reflect each family and their daily lives. These opportunities, as well as all of the efforts to engage families, draw on each family’s unique knowledge and are respectfully designed around each family’s strengths.
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Competency CL2004: Culturally Responsive Relationships: Recommend culturally responsive practices to promote supportive and respectful partnerships with families.
Assessment Rubric
0 Not Present
1 Needs Improvement
2 Meets Expectations
Topic 1: Engaging Families Through Responsive Practices
Explain each benefit in 3-4 sentences including a research- based rationale that supports why each is important. LO1: Explain research- based ways families can benefit from engagement in their children’s early childhood programs.
Response is not present.
Explanation of the ways families benefit from family engagement is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete.
Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based, explanation of the ways families can benefit from family engagement in their child’s early childhood setting. .
LO2: Explain research- based ways children can benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings.
Response is not present.
Explanation of the ways children benefit from family engagement is vague, inaccurate, and/or incomplete.
Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based, explanation of the ways children can benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings.
Topic 2: Culturally Responsive Communication and Collaboration Strategies
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Explain each culturally responsive communication and collaboration skill in 3- 4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important. LO1: Explain research- based culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills that support family engagement.
Response is not present.
Explanation of culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills supportive of family engagement is vague, inaccurate, and/or incomplete.
Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based, explanation of culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills supportive of family engagement.
Topic 3: Effective Culturally Responsive Program and Classroom Practices That Promote Family Partnership and Engagement
Explain each culturally responsive practice/strategy in 3-4 sentences including a research-based rationale that supports why each is important. LO1: Explain research- based culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented within early childhood settings to promote
Response is not present.
Explanation of culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented within early childhood settings to promote family partnership and engagement is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete.
Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based, explanation of culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented within early childhood settings to promote family partnership and engagement.
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family partnership and engagement.
Explain each culturally responsive opportunity for meaningful engagement in 3-4 sentences including how each opportunity represents culturally responsive practice. LO2: Explain culturally responsive ways families can become meaningfully involved in early childhood settings.
Response is not present.
Explanation of culturally responsive ways families can become meaningfully engaged in an early childhood setting is vague, inaccurate, and/or incomplete.
Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based, explanation of culturally responsive ways families can become meaningfully involved in an early childhood setting.
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Mastery Rubric
Exceeds Expectations: In-Depth Analysis: Explores issues through analysis of evidence that result in informed conclusions.
LO1: Synthesizes in- depth information from relevant sources.
Responses to items synthesize information from relevant sources to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the role of culturally responsive relationships and family engagement in supporting positive outcomes for young children and their families.
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No
Written Communication: Write with clarity, coherence, and purpose.
0 Not Present
1 Needs Improvement
2 Meets Expectations
LO1: Construct complete and correct sentences (AWE 2; Sentence Level
Sentences are incoherent and impede reader’s
Sentences are incomplete and/or include fragments and run-on sentences, limiting
Sentence structure effectively conveys meaning to the reader.
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Skills) access to ideas. reader’s access to ideas.
LO2: Demonstrate the effective use of grammar and mechanics. (AWE 2; Sentence Level Skills)
Multiple inaccuracies in grammar and mechanics impede reader’s access to ideas.
Some inaccuracies in grammar and mechanics limit reader’s access to ideas.
Use of grammar and mechanics is straightforward and effectively conveys meaning to reader.
LO3: Create cohesive paragraphs with a clear central idea. (AWE 2; Paragraph Level Skills)
Paragraphs, or lack of paragraphs, impede reader’s access to ideas.
Construction of main idea and/or supporting paragraphs limit reader’s access to ideas.
Main idea and/or supporting paragraphs effectively convey meaning to reader.
LO4: Use supporting material to support a claim. (AWE 2; Use of Evidence)
Supporting materials are not present.
Supporting material is used inconsistently or inappropriately.
Supporting material is used to enhance meaning. Writing is appropriately paraphrased and uses direct quotes as applicable.
LO6: Identify sources (AWE 2; Credit to source)
Sources are missing. Writing inconsistently identifies or misrepresents sources.
Writing clearly identifies the source of nonoriginal material and/or ideas.
Engaging Multiple Social and Cultural Perspectives: Apply strategies to develop intellectual flexibility and broad knowledge that enables perception of the world through the perspectives of diverse social and cultural perspectives.
0 Not Present
1 Needs Improvement
2 Meets Expectations
LO2: Recognize how knowledge from different cultural and social perspectives might affect interpretations of issues in society.
Recognition is not present.
Response demonstrates a vague understanding of how different cultural and social perspectives might affect interpretations of issues.
Response demonstrates a clear understanding of how different cultural and social perspectives might affect interpretations of issues.