Advocacy And Collaboration with Family, Assignment, Singapore

Question 1

This question requires you to respond to the article:

Early Childhood Development Agency. (2024). Creating stronger foundations through meaningful home-centre partnerships. Grow@Beanstalk.

https://www.ecda.gov.sg/growatbeanstalk/article/creating-strong-foundations-throughmeaningful-home-centre-partnerships

To do so:

a. Describe TWO (2) key features of the centre’s practices to collaborate with families to promote young children’s learning experiences.

b. Examine the extent to which the centre’s practices in (a) align with:

• NAEYC. (n.d.). DAP: Engaging in reciprocal partnerships with families and
  fostering community connections https://www.naeyc.org/resources/positionstatements/dap/engaging-families Provide ONE (1) example to support your
• Association of Early Childhood Educators Singapore. (2015). Code of ethics
  handbook for early childhood professionals: An essential companion for daily
  practice (chapter 3). https://www.aeces.org/membership/code-of-ethics/ Provide ONE (1) example to support your answer.

Use your course readings to strengthen your argument.

Eg. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, NAEYC, Family Resilience Factors etc.

Question 2

a. Describe an existing home-centre partnership practice in your early childhood setting to promote young children’s learning experiences.

b. Reflect on your learnings from 1(a) and 1(b) and explain how you can use them to modify and strengthen the practice in 2(a) to further benefit families of young children in your setting. Include a clear rationale based on your course readings to strengthen your argument

c. Using ONE (1) theory discussed in this course, present an analysis of the strengthened practice in 2(b).

d. Aside from time constraints, examine ONE (1) barrier that may arise in implementing the strengthened practice in 2(b) and explain how you intend to address the barrier. Use your course readings to strengthen your argument.