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SHB5443

Unit 9 Assignment/ Personal Plan of Action

· For this assignment, research best practices to improve cultural awareness and diversity. You must use a minimum of two peer-reviewed journal articles and the textbook. You may use additional resources if you wish. Use these readings to select best practices and create a personal plan of action.

Address the following headings in your plan:

· Increase Cultural Awareness: Analyze research from dominant and minority perspectives to select best practices for increasing cultural awareness and diversity.

· Improve Self-Awareness: Propose techniques supported by research to improve self-awareness by confronting personal assumptions, biases, and fears.

· Build Relationships:  Describe how you will build relationships with others from diverse populations.

· Advocacy Approach:  Propose an advocacy approach for working with a diverse population.

· Feasibility: Analyze the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population.

· Promote Cultural Sensitivity: Propose strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers.

Please review the Personal Plan of Action Scoring Guide to see how this assignment will be graded.

Assignment Requirements

· Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

· APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA current edition style and formatting.

· Number of resources: Minimum of 2 peer-reviewed resources in addition to the course text.

· Length of paper: 4–5 typed double-spaced pages, not including required cover sheet and reference page. No abstract required.

· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

· Personal Plan of Action Scoring Guide

· Due Date: End of Unit 9. Percentage of Course Grade: 30%.

Personal Plan of Action Scoring Guide Grading Rubric

Criteria

Non-performance

Basic

Proficient

Distinguished

Analyze research from dominant and minority perspectives to select best practices for increasing cultural awareness and diversity. 14%

Does not analyze research from dominant and minority perspectives to select best practices with increasing cultural awareness and diversity.

Analyzes research to select practices with increasing cultural awareness and diversity, but does not analyze how the research has included culturally diverse perspectives.

Analyzes research from dominant and minority perspectives to select best practices with increasing cultural awareness and diversity.

Analyzes research from dominant and minority perspectives to select best practices for increasing cultural awareness and diversity. Research is up to date and from within the past 5 years.

Propose techniques supported by research to improve self-awareness by confronting personal assumptions, biases, and fears. 14%

Does not propose techniques supported by research to improve self-awareness by confronting personal assumptions, biases, and fears.

Proposes techniques to improve self-awareness by confronting personal assumptions, biases, and fears, but does not support with research.

Proposes techniques supported by research to improve self-awareness with personal assumptions, biases, and fears.

Proposes strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers. Research is up to date and from within the past 5 years.

Describe how to build relationships with others from diverse backgrounds. 14%

Does not discuss importance of building relationships with others from diverse backgrounds.

Discusses importance of building relationships with others from diverse backgrounds, but does not explain how to do it.

Describes how to build relationships with others from diverse backgrounds.

Describes how to build relationships with others from diverse backgrounds. Considers communication style when building relationships with others.

Propose an advocacy approach for working with a diversity population. 14%

Does not propose an advocacy approach for working with a diverse population.

Proposes an advocacy approach, but does not make a connection about how it fits with a diverse population.

Proposes an advocacy approach for working with a diverse population.

Proposes an advocacy approach for working with a diverse population. Provides recommendations on how to promote proposed approach with work colleagues.

Analyze the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population. 14%

Does not analyze the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population.

Inaccurately analyzes the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population.

Analyzes the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population.

Analyzes the feasibility of an advocacy approach to use when working with a diverse population. Proposes criteria that could be used to evaluate approach.

Propose strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers. 15%

Does not propose strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers.

Proposes strategies, but either they are not supported by research or they do not promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers.

Proposes strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers.

Proposes strategies supported by research to promote cultural sensitivity with fellow colleagues and co-workers. Proposes criteria that could be used to evaluate strategies.

Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Format citations correctly using APA style. 15%

Does not write clearly and logically. Writing shows little attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and citations are not correctly formatted using APA style.

Uses sentence structure that is mostly clear, with a few minor spelling or grammatical errors, but fails to attribute quotes and citations in a few places or allows some inconsistencies in APA style.

Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and formats citations correctly using APA style.

Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, with no errors, and formats citations correctly using APA style. All information is accurate and up to date.