ECED 1115 Portfolio Assignment
Overview
All students in the Early Childhood Program at DACC will be required to create a Professional Portfolio. Students will create the Portfolio in this assignment using the modeled creation of a template. Upon completion of all of the DACC Early Childhood courses in their program, students will have a professional portfolio that they can share with future employers or use for future educational endeavors.
Objectives
Portfolio Objective: Students will create a comprehensive professional portfolio that showcases pedagogical knowledge and career readiness through compiled documents, reflections, and evaluations collected throughout their academic journey at DACC.
Assignment Objective:
6b.1: Know about and uphold ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines
6b.2: Identify and follow relevant laws such as reporting child abuse and neglect, health and safety practices, and the rights of children with developmental delays and disabilities
6b.3: Reflect upon and integrate into practice professional guidelines such as national, state, or local standards and regulations and position statements from professional associations as appropriate for the role/designation in the profession
Instructional Materials
- Video from DACC VLIT: DACC Virtual Learning and Instructional Technology Google Sites Tutorial
- Video from DACC VLIT: How to Share Your Portfolio without Publishing It
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Instructions
Introduction:
Child abuse and neglect is a very disturbing topic and is difficult for most people to talk about, especially in a public forum. Researching and writing about it can even be emotionally triggering for many, however, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of the subject matter. As future educators or Early Childhood professionals, we have a responsibility to immediately report if we suspect any harm is being inflicted on a child. We are obligated to report what we know, it will be up to the investigators to sort out the facts, but we must take measures to protect children from potentially dangerous situations. For this reason, however, we must first learn to recognize and understand child abuse. Remember, more often than we realize, abuse has many faces, it’s not always a physical injury we can see. Knowledge, education and building public awareness are the key components for helping us discern what our role in preventing and reporting will be. We all have a responsibility to keep children safe.
Instructions:
You will be writing a 4-6 page research paper on child abuse and neglect, based on the information shared in our textbook and other reliable resources. Make sure your papers provide clear statements of facts, statistics and examples written in full, complete sentences. Be very thorough and provide as much information as you can find. You may use documented cases which have made headlines or cases your research provided which may have not received media attention. As this is a research paper, please keep the information shared based on actual cases and facts you learned while investigating data. Finally, provide ideas of specific things we can do to promote awareness in our community.
Part I: Discuss and describe what child abuse is and your understanding of the different types of abuse and neglect found in your textbook and other resources. Discuss circumstances or life events that can lead to these incidents occurring.
Part II: Provide data and statistics which demonstrates the enormity of the situation and why it has been considered an epidemic since the 80’s. Discuss how poverty and other socioeconomic conditions play a role in these numbers.
Part III: Share a specific case you read or heard about from a reliable news source that particularly resonated with you or one that demonstrates the impact these cases have on society.
Part IV: Wrap it up with ideas on raising public awareness and how we can try to prevent these tragic events from occurring as often as they do in our community.
Make sure you are writing this paper using Word with grammar and spell check on. Use college level writing skills, free from errors. Check capitalizing and punctuation. Proofread thoroughly before submitting.
Use APA formatting, making sure to provide in-text citations for all references, including our textbook.
Include a reference page, which does not count toward your required pages. No points lost for going over 6 pages (4 page minimum).
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