Best Practies Working with Families Who Have Infants Project

Best Practices for Working with Families who have Infants

Purpose: The purpose of the Best Practices for Working with Families is for you to:

• Identify best practices for working with families
• Build a toolkit of strategies to engage and partner with families
• Recognize the importance of working with families as an infant teacher

Task: To expand and deepen your knowledge of working with families of infants, you will engage in a semester-long group project to identify best practices for your working families of infants. In each module, you will identify the best practices for working with families who have infants from the readings and materials in the module. Summarize your findings, in your own words, but cite the sources from which you located the information/ best practices.  Ideas from all readings, videos, podcasts, or other materials in the module should be included in the post.

Towards the end of the semester, we will determine how to best share the information we have gathered.

BEST PRACTICES FOR WORKING WITH FAMILIES WHO HAVE INFANTS ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:

ELEMENT	DOES YOUR POST:	Y/N
READINGS	Contain best practices from all of the assigned course readings from the module, citied in APA format?
SOURCES	Contain best practices from all of the assigned course materials (videos, podcasts, Power Points, etc.) from the module, cited in APA format?
CLARITY	Demonstrate coherent, clear, organized writing that is filled with rich, vivid supporting details, & has evidence it has been edited?

 

 

 

COMPLETING MODULES ON OPENLAB

The asynchronous work for ECE 209-Seminar is divided into modules, which are posted on BMCC’s OpenLab. Within each module, there are activities, within each activity there are tasks. Completing the modules, activities, and tasks will build your knowledge and understanding of working with families who have infants. Work from the modules will be assessed using the rubric below.

 

Assessment Rubric (1 point – must meet Learner in all tasks):

TASK	COMPETENT	LEARNER	NOVICE
THOROUGHNESS	All comments were thorough, with rich, well-developed, detailed answers.	Almost all of the comments were thorough, with rich, well-developed, detailed answers.	Many of the comments were thorough, with rich, well-developed, detailed answers.
REFLECTION	All of the comments had well-developed, thoughtful, rich, reflective answers.	Almost all of the comments had well-developed, thoughtful, rich, reflective answers.	Many of the comments had well-developed, thoughtful, rich, reflective answers.
UNIQUENESS OF COMMENTS & REPLIES	All of the comments & responses contained unique perspectives, insights, info & did not repeat material from previous comments & responses.	Almost all of the comments & replies contained unique perspectives, insights, info & did not repeat material from previous comments & responses.	Many of the comments & replies contained unique perspectives, insights, info & did not repeat material from previous comments & responses.
CONNECTION TO CONTENT	All of the comments & replies contained multiple direct, explicit, specific connections to the module’s content (readings, videos, etc.)	Almost all of the comments & replies contained multiple direct, explicit, specific connections to the module’s content (readings, videos, etc.)	Many of the comments & replies contained multiple direct, explicit, specific connections to the module’s content (readings, videos, etc.)
REPLIES TO COMMENTS	All of the replies connect to the original comment in a meaningful, specific, thoughtful, thorough, manner that add build, expand, or extend the original comment using the word because (Eg: “I agree that helping families feel comfortable is important, because children feel more comfortable in early childhood programs when their families feel comfortable too.”	Almost all of the replies connect to the original comment in a meaningful, specific, thoughtful, thorough, manner that add, build, expand, or extend the original comment using the word because (Eg: “I agree that helping families feel comfortable is important, because children feel more comfortable in early childhood programs when their families feel comfortable too.”	Many of the replies connect to the original comment in a meaningful, specific, thoughtful, thorough, manner that add, build, expand, or extend the original comment using the word because (Eg: “I agree that helping families feel comfortable is important, because children feel more comfortable in early childhood programs when their families feel comfortable too.”
MODULES	All of the modules were completed.	Almost all of the modules were completed.	Most of the modules were completed.
ACTIVITIES WITHIN MODULES	All of the activities in each module were completed.	Almost all of the activities in each module were completed.	Most of the activities in each module were completed.
TASKS WITHIN ACTIVITIES	All of the tasks in each activity were completed.	Almost all the tasks in each activity were completed	Most of the task in each activity were completed.
CLARITY	All of the comments & replies were clear, organized, & coherent.	Almost all of the comments & replies were clear, organized, & coherent.	Many of the responses were clear, organized, & coherent.