Early Childhood Education

1. For this week’s assignment, you will compose an essay that explains the duties and responsibilities related to the administration of a quality early childhood program. In your essay, explain the various types of financial assistance:

Local, state, and federal financial assistance that can be secured by the administrator (title programs, vouchers, grants, contracts, etc.)
Fees and tuition
Employer assistance
Foundation Support
Donations, in-kind
Fundraising
Length: 5-7 pages, excluding images and title and reference pages.

References: Include a minimum of five (5) scholarly references that are seminal references or published within the last five (5) years.

The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course. The writing should integrate scholarly resources, reflect academic expectations and current APA standards.

The Reading for this Assignment:

Leading in Early Childhood
Davis, G., & Ryder, G. (2016). Leading in early childhood. SAGE.
Read Chapter 5. This resource is important because it scrutinizes numerous roles of childhood administrators and the normal challenges and opportunities they face. This book provides instructions on the role of an administrator.
Early-Childhood Education; “Child Care and Early Education: Most States Offer Preschool Programs and Rely on Multiple Funding Sources
Sparks, S. D. (2019). Early-childhood education; “child care and early education: Most states offer preschool programs and rely on multiple funding sources.” Education Week, 36.
This article is important because it describes how state early education programs and how they are funded.
Funding Head Start: What are the Issues?
Chafel, J. A. (1992). Funding Head Start: What are the issues? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 62(1), 921.
This resource is important because it indicates that because of budgetary constraints, the future Head Start appropriations will inevitably fall short of the amount needed to provide increased access to the program and sufficient improvement of its services.

2. For this assignment, you have read Chapters 6-9 in your textbook and reflected on methods for effective communication with parents, strategies for working with parents, effective parent-school programs, and home-based education, homeschooling, and homework. Now reflect on what you have learned about parents and communication. Using the content of your reading, create a parent conference plan.

You are the elementary supervisor for your district. Parent conferences are in two weeks and new teachers have come to you for help. Design a conference guide that they can follow during parent conferences.

Be sure to address common scenarios and difficulties that can be part of such conferences.
Include plans for conferencing with the parent of a mainstreamed special needs child as well as the parents of an English language learner.
Develop activities that parents can use with their children at home.
Include an Appendix to your plan that contains:
A letter/note/flyer of invitation for the conference.
A home activity calendar for one month focusing on a particular grade level. Activities should reflect different developmental areas.
Include a reference page (5 resources minimum).
Length: 5-7 pages

Berger, E. H. (2011). Parents as partners in education: Families and schools working together. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Read Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9

3. For this assignment, you have read Chapter 5 in your textbook and reflected on how to ensure positive relationships between the home, school, and community, and enhance the education of young children. Now reflect on what you have learned about parent involvement programs. Using the content of your reading, create a parent involvement PowerPoint presentation that encourages parents to participate in your school and includes the following:

Examples from research of successful programs that support your suggestions.
Be sure to include strategies for encouraging those parents who do not volunteer to participate.
Include a “want ad” that invites parents to become volunteers in the classroom.
Include a reference page (5 resources minimum).
Length: 12-15 slides with speaker notes
Notes Length: 200-300 words

Tip: You can get help using PowerPoint “Notes” through the “help” function of PowerPoint. If you save the presentation as a webpage, your notes automatically display. Your notes can fill the role of the speaker, giving your audience the background and details that a speaker would provide during a live presentation.

The book this assignment is based off :

Parents as Partners in Education: Families and Schools Working Together.
External Learning Tool

Berger, E. H. (2011). Parents as partners in education: Families and schools working together. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Read Chapter 5