Assignment Task: Prior to beginning work on this presentation, spend time reviewing the resources you have collected and the feedback your instructor provided on previous assignments.
In this two-part final assignment, you will exhibit mastery of your ability to analyze the professional knowledge, skills, and standards that you have developed or enhanced in this course and synthesize the research and current topics discussed over the past six weeks.
In previous weeks, you identified a social justice issue that served as the focus of your advocacy work and final assignment. Now you will create resources that can help you with taking action.
Leading a change effort is most effective when there is buy-in from the necessary stakeholders.
Using knowledge from each of the previous assignments, you will create and share a presentation that focuses on informing potential stakeholders. Creativity is key. You should share your content in a format that you feel is most effective for your audience (outside of the classroom, papers are not recommended). You should plan for a 20-minute sharing period that includes the following:
In your final project, you must address the following content areas:
1. Introduction:
- Identify the purpose of your presentation (your social justice issue).
2. Social Justice:
- Defend the importance of fostering social justice, equity pedagogies, and culturally relevant teaching in early childhood settings.
- Support your argument with content and examples from the research and literature you examined in this course.
- Remember your audience. Avoid an overreliance on direct quotes in favor of paraphrasing information from your sources.
- Provide a contextual example for your audience to understand how to integrate this concept into your organization/environment.
3. Connection to Professional Responsibilities:
Defend how innovative leadership, social justice, and 21st-century learning are tied to professionalism in the field.
4. Mission Moving Forward:
- Share your personal DEI statement.
The Summative Part II: Social Justice Presentation final project,
- must be the equivalent of a 20-minute presentation
o Submit the project in an acceptable format as listed in the assignment prompt
- must be 15 PowerPoint slides in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.
- must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
- must use at least five credible sources in addition to the course text
Course Textbook:
Bredekamp, S. (2022). Effective practices in early childhood education (4th ed.). Pearson.