Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Scholar Practitioners Who Impact Future Change


·         Explain your responsibility, as a scholar practitioner, to lead evaluation initiatives.
As a scholar practitioner, it is my duty to make sure all information that comes to me is accurate and correct. It is my duty to make sure that the information is given to the right individuals so they can perform their duties. The gather of information based on research is used to give a conclusion on certain cases or help to provide services.

·         Explain what might be your greatest barrier and/or most important downfall to avoid when leading program evaluations and why.
The greatest barrier I can see happening is obtaining false information in my research. Although it may seem that it doesn’t happen, when doing research you have to be careful of the sources you obtain, they can be false which will have you giving false information out to others. Another would be getting my audiences attention, the way you would present your findings to different groups of people.

·         Describe how you might minimize this barrier and/or downfall to ensure that evaluations are effective.
By making sure the information I obtain is truthful and reliable before I use it in my findings. Making the extra effort to make sure that what I have backs up what I’m trying to show is something that is very important to me. When addressing the stakeholders, I have to make sure my approach is appropriate for them. Each group has a certain tone, and approach that you have to find in order to make sure that your presentation is getting across to them.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Scholar Practitioners as Program Evaluators

What I hope to gain from this course is more knowledge on Early Childhood Programs. I want to become a trainer and being able to know as much information as possible about programs that help in the early childhood field will benefit me when I teach others what I know. As a lead teacher now, I have staff who look to me for information on how to become a lead, having this information and the skills I already have will prepare me for my next adventure in the early childhood field.

By doing this course I plan to be able to evaluate programs correctly, and see what works for all types of situations. I can't wait to continue learning more about program evaluations and how they help form the perfect program.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Policies and National Regulations and Standards for Early Childhood Education


In the state of Texas, our goal is for all children entering the school system have the foundational knowledge and skills to be confident and successful learners. With support from the families, schools, and communities providing aligned early learning opportunities, policies and programs that: Support a highly-skilled early learning workforce, providing resources that engage and support development of young children, provide access to high quality 3 and 4 year old prekindergarten. With NAYEC their standards are similar with making sure the curriculum that is used is challenging and developmentally appropriate. They make sure their programs are in place to help children transition to the school system.



With both standards, I think that the constant checking of how the program is running is a good thing. You want to make sure the things you put in place are working and that if at any time there is a issue you can replace what needs to be replaced. As the world moves towards the future trends, and changes come around and learning paths tend to shift and early childhood educators are finding out they need to do things to help accommodate these changes. With NBPTS teachers work with evolving dynamics when it comes to understanding how children develop and using that to make programs that will feed into the learning experience.


In the state of Texas there is room for more information to highlight their programs used to teach early childhood children. Even though their standards were similar to NAYEC, they didn’t go into more detail about the programs they use to help with children’s development. I just wished that they had more information about the importance of early childhood education.



Questions??

How often is programs reviewed?

How many assessments must be done to get a valid answer?

How will these assessments help with learning how children develop?



References

https://tea.texas.gov/academics/early-childhood-education

https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/resources/position-statements/CAPEexpand.pdf