PV001 History and Evolution of the Early Childhood Field

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Instructions

This Competency includes a Short-Answer Assessment. Write your response to each prompt below in the space provided. Beneath the prompts is the Rubric which will be used by the Competency Assessor to evaluate your responses. Carefully review the Rubric rows associated with each prompt to provide a complete response.

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Short Answer 1

For each of the names listed below, write a 1-paragraph response that describes the individual’s contribution to the early childhood field.

· John Amos Comenius

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· Johann Pestalozzi

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Friedrich Froebel

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· Maria Montessori

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· Susan Blow

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· John Dewey

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· Patty Smith Hill

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Caroline Pratt

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Lucy Sprague Mitchell

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McMillan Sisters

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Rubric

	0 Not Present	1 Needs Improvement	2 Meets Expectations	3 Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 1: Describe the contribution of prominent researchers, early childhood professionals, and advocates to the early childhood field.
Learning Objective 1.1: Describe the contribution of prominent researchers, early childhood professionals, and advocates to the early childhood field.	Description is missing.	Response vaguely or incompletely describes the key contributions of each individual.	Response accurately describes the key contributions of each individual.	· Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: Response describes the contributions of an additional individual to the early childhood field.

Short Answer 2

· For each of the significant events or research named below, write a 1-paragraph response that describes its impact on the early childhood field.

The Kindergarten Movement

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The Inclusion Movement

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The Progressive Education Movement

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Founding of National Association for Nursery Education (NANE)/ National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

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The Bureau of Education Experiments

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Works Progress Administration Nurseries

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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

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The Economic Opportunity Act and the Founding of Head Start

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Hart and Risley’s Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

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Perry/High Scope Preschool Project

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Rubric

	0 Not Present	1 Needs Improvement	2 Meets Expectations	3 Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 2: Describe the impact of significant events and research on the early childhood field.
· Learning Objective 2.1: Describe the impact of significant events and research in the history of the early childhood field.	Description is missing.	Response vaguely or incompletely describes the impact of each event and/or research on the early childhood field.	Response accurately describes the impact of each event and/or research on the early childhood field.	· Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: Response describes an additional significant event and/or research and its impact on the early childhood field.

Short Answer 3

In a 4- to 6-paragraph response, identify at least three early childhood professional organizations. Describe the purpose of each organization and explain its significance to the early childhood field. Provide a citation for each organization.

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Rubric

	0 Not Present	1 Needs Improvement	2 Meets Expectations	3 Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 3: Describe key professional organizations that inform early childhood practice.
Learning Objective 3.1: Describe early childhood professional organizations and their purposes.	Description is missing.	Response incompletely or vaguely describes three or fewer early childhood organizations. Response includes a partial or inappropriate citation for each organization.	Response describes three relevant and appropriate early childhood organizations and their purposes. Response includes a citation for each organization.	Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: Response describes more than three relevant and appropriate early childhood organizations.

Short Answer 4

· In a 2- to 3-paragraph response, identify at least one organization that advocates for children and families. Describe the purpose of the organization and describe one current advocacy issue this organization is working on today. Provide a citation for the organization.

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Rubric

	0 Not Present	1 Needs Improvement	2 Meets Expectations	3 Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 4: Describe research and advocacy organizations that support children, families, and early childhood professionals.
Learning Objective 4.1: Describe early childhood research and advocacy organizations and their purposes.	Description is missing.	Response is vague or irrelevant. Citation is missing or incomplete.	Response describes one relevant early childhood research and advocacy organization. Response includes a citation for the organization identified.	Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: Response describes more than one relevant and appropriate early childhood research and advocacy organization.

Short Answer 5

Identify at least two peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base. In a 4- to 6-paragraph response, summarize the main focus of each publication, and explain how it informs early childhood practice and/or expands the professional knowledge base. Provide an APA citation for each publication.

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Rubric

	0 Not Present	1 Needs Improvement	2 Meets Expectations	3 Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 5: Describe peer-reviewed professional journals and other publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base.
Learning Objective 5.1: Describe the main focus of peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base.	Description is missing.	Response describes irrelevant publications or is incomplete. APA citations are missing or incomplete.	Response thoroughly describes the focus of two relevant and appropriate peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base. APA citations are mostly accurate.	Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: Response identifies more than two relevant and appropriate peer-reviewed publication.

Standards are what hold like-minded industries (education, military, corporate, or other) to the same level of accountability. Once a standard is selected, it must then be aligned to the lesson or instruction. All successful instructional settings will align instruction and assessment to the standards. For this assignment, you will discuss the purpose of standards and a learning objectives/outcomes alignment with assessments and lesson plans. You will also summarize the importance of alignment between standards, objectives, assessments within instructional plans.

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as cited in Lopez, 2013)

Prepare

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 7: Crafting Lessons by Design from Teaching and Learning (Newman, 2019) and Chapter 7: Standards Alignment from No Excuses University (Lopez, 2013).

Reflect

From your current or desired educational career, reflect on the following as you consider standards alignment:

• The role of lesson planning in standards alignment.
• The daily commitment of aligning standards.
• Pacing versus alignment.
• The NEU four group system of keeping it practical.
• Great standard alignment plus exceptional collaboration will equal great results
• The importance of instructional objectives (learning outcomes) and their key characteristics.
• Lesson plan types.
• Multiple intelligences.

Content Instructions

Compose your paper using APA Style and third-person language. For assistance, you may review the resource First vs. Third Person. (Links to an external site.) Your paper should include the following:

Introduction

• Present a thesis statement that focuses on the role of aligning standards to your instruction.
  • You may review the Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.) resource for additional help.

Body of the Paper

• Summarize how you will ensure that alignment exists within your instruction.
• Describe the steps you can follow to maintain alignment in your instruction. Summarize why it is important that alignment exists between standards, objectives, assessments and instructional plans.
  • Describe how you can use NEU’s group system of keeping it practical to maintain alignment.
• Explain how a system of exceptional collaboration as described by NEU promotes quality standards alignment.
  • Consider how collaborating with your colleagues can help to ensure your instruction aligns with your standards.
• Explain the concept of pacing versus alignment.
  • Describe the difference between the two. Why might it be important to know this difference?

Conclusion

• Summarize how standards alignment might be used in your future work and educational endeavors.

Be sure to support your position with one scholarly and/or credible source, in addition to the No Excuses University (Lopez, 2013), and the Teaching and Learning (Newman, 2019) textbooks (for a total of at least three cited references).

Writing and Formatting Expectations

The Standards Alignment paper

• Must use the attached Week 3 template: The Standards Alignment paper
• Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford University Writing Center’s APA Style  (Links to an external site.)resource
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford University Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least one scholarly and/or credible source in addition to the Teaching and Learning (Newman, 2019) and No Excuses University (Lopez, 2013) textbooks (for a total of at least three cited references). You will use scholarly sources to support your view, your position. Doing this assists in supporting your point of view.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for his assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford University Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford University Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford University Writing Center for specifications.