Homework: Information Dissemination- Child Development and Learning
Advocacy is a vital component of the early childhood professional's role. Advocacy can occur on a daily basis through supportive interactions with children and their families and connecting families to needed resources. At a broader and more public level, advocacy can occur when a specific message is developed and disseminated with the goal of positively impacting the lives of children, families, early childhood professionals, and the field as a whole.
Developing effective advocacy messages requires deep knowledge of a particular topic, an effective means of delivering the message, and the ability to design a research-based message that can serve to motivate others to your cause. Over the next 5 weeks, you will design three advocacy pieces. Each advocacy piece will use a different format-a webinar, a podcast, and a white paper. Each advocacy message must be on a different topic and related to nurturing young children.
Across each of the topics, the information you develop needs to be responsive to the following:
o Audience: For whom is this information being developed? (Families, early childhood coaches, policy makers, educators, etc.)
o Role: Whom are you speaking as? Please select a role that provides your voice for each piece that is meaningful to you (educator, family advocate, administrator, coach, policy maker, researcher).
o Goal: What do you hope to gain by sharing this information? What impact do you want to have on your target audience?
Task
From the following topic below, You will create a advocacy message on the topic below in a 4 minute speech with a submission of a transcript included:
Topic: "Resilience"
o What does Resilience means in Early Childhood Education?
o Why is Resilience important in Early Childhood?
o Building Resilience in Children
o How does child development impact on Resilience?
o What factors help children become resilient?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.