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PL4003: Informed Advocacy in the Early Childhood Field: Develop research-based advocacy plans for current issues in the early childhood field to promote positive social change.

Assessment Rubric

0 Not Present

1 Needs Improvement

2 Meets Expectations

Topic 1: Defining an Advocacy Issue Explain the selected advocacy issue and the goals and outcomes you want to achieve through your advocacy plan.

LO1: Explain advocacy issues and goals for advocacy plans

Response is not present. Response is a vague, inaccurate, or incomplete explanation of an advocacy issue and goals for advocacy plans.

Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based explanation of an advocacy issue and goals for advocacy plans.

Select at least three current resources that provide multiple perspectives on the issue you selected. Then, complete the following: identify each resource, including the APA citation; write a 1—2 paragraph summary for each resource; analyze the resources, and write a 2—3 paragraph synthesis of your findings.

LO2: Analyze multiple perspectives on advocacy

Response is not present. Response is a vague, inaccurate, or incomplete analysis of multiple perspectives on advocacy issues in the early childhood field.

Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based analysis of multiple perspectives on advocacy issues in the early childhood field.

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issues in the early childhood field

Respond to the following prompts: What is your goal for your Advocacy Plan? What is your goal statement? How does your goal help or improve your selected issue?

LO3: Explain goals related to advocacy issues

Response is not present. Response is a vague, inaccurate, or an incomplete explanation of goals related to the selected advocacy issue.

Response provides a clear, accurate, research-based explanation of goals related to the selected advocacy issue.

Complete the following sections of the Advocacy Plan: Action Steps Chart: Objectives, Action Steps, Collaborator, Resources, Timelines, Assessment, and Outcome.

LO4: Develop advocacy plans

Response is not present. Response is a vague, inaccurate, or incomplete advocacy plan.

Response provides a clear and accurate, research-based advocacy plan.

Topic 2: Advocating for Positive Change Write a 1—to 2—page reflection that explains the following: your advocacy process and how you implemented one of the action steps in your Advocacy Plan; how you collaborated with others to achieve your objective; the result of your action step implementation; how the implementation did or will lead to positive social change for children, families, and/or the early childhood

Response is not present. Response is a vague, inaccurate, or incomplete analysis of the implementation of social change advocacy plans.

Response provides a clear, accurate, research based analysis of the implementation of social change advocacy plans.

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profession; and, your “lessons learned,” and how you might change your plan for advocacy the next time you develop an Advocacy Plan.

LO1: Analyze the implementation of early childhood advocacy plans

Professional Skills Assessment

In this Competency Assessment, you will be assessed on the following Professional Skills: Inquiry and Analysis and Information Literacy. These skills count toward your achievement of the Competency and the Professional Skills.

Inquiry and Analysis: Apply strategies to identify, frame, and evaluate issues and problems. 2 1

Needs Improvement 2

Meets Expectations LO2: Use a logical organizing principle to identify the key parts or elements of a problem or question in a selected field of study.

Elements or parts of the problem or question are not presented.

Elements or parts of the problem or question are presented in a disorganized manner.

Elements or parts of the problem or question are presented in an organized manner.

Information Literacy: Apply strategies to evaluate information in order to effectively analyze issues and make decisions. LO3: Synthesize information from multiple, credible sources

Synthesis is not present.

Synthesis demonstrates a vague connection between multiple sources and/or the topic.

Synthesis demonstrates a clear and cohesive connection between multiple sources and/or ideas to support a given topic.

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Mastery Rubric

In order to achieve mastery of this Competency, you must achieve a “2” on every rubric row in addition to meeting the additional expectation indicated in the Mastery Rubric.

MASTERY RUBRIC Exceeds Expectations: In-Depth Analysis LO1: Analyze multiple, relevant sources to apply principles and concepts related to current issues in the early childhood field.

The advocacy plan analyzes multiple, relevant sources to address issues in the field of early childhood in order to promote positive social change and advocate for children, families, and/or the profession.

Yes

No