Posted: April 24th, 2025

NEED IN 8 HOURS or LESS

1) Describe a positive example of a family or community partnership in which you have been involved. (I AM A HEAD START FAMILY ADVOCATE)

2) Once you have read the Course Learning Outcomes (ATTACHED), describe what excites you most about this course and which topics you are unfamiliar with.

Course Syllabus

Course
Description

This course provides opportunities for students to examine partnerships among early
childhood professionals, families, and the communities in which they work.
Throughout the course, students evaluate how their daily instructional practices
promote positive outcomes for young children. Students explore the various
partnerships necessary in early childhood education and discover how these
partnerships can support curriculum, learners’ development, and the learning
environment. Course requirements provide several opportunities for students to
examine and discuss the effectiveness of ethical communication and collaboration
strategies. Approaching course topics as reflective practitioners, students are able to
determine how these specific partnerships fit into their future roles.

Course
Design

ECE 631 is designed for students to examine partnerships among early childhood
professionals, families, and the communities in which they work. Furthermore, this
course will support students’ understanding of the importance of effective
partnerships with families within the community and how to effectively create those
partnerships. The culminating project will demonstrate competency in the Program
Learning Outcomes, through the development of a guidebook and corresponding
family presentation. Course activities provide a variety of interactions that allow
students to demonstrate their learning of the Course and Program Learning
Outcomes, their ability to collaborate with each other, to engage in critical and
creative thinking, as well as their ethical reasoning ability.

Course
Learning
Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Examine how home and community partnerships can support early childhood
curriculum, learner’s development, and the learning environment.

2. Defend the importance of family and community partnerships in early
childhood education.

3. Evaluate curriculum, assessment, and instruction in an effort to improve
outcomes for young children, families, and communities.

4. Design effective, ethical communication and collaboration strategies as an
educational leader in early childhood education.

Course
Map

The course map illustrates the careful design of the course through which each
learning objective is supported by one or more specific learning activities in order to
create integrity and pedagogical depth in the learning experience.

LEARNING OUTCOME WEEK ASSIGNMENT

1. Examine how home and
community partnerships can
support early childhood
curriculum, learner’s
development and the learning
environment.

1
1
2

2
2
2

3

3

3

4
4

4

5

6

• Understanding Diverse
Families – Discussion

• Diversity Trends in Families –
Discussion

• Types of Family and
Community Partnerships –
Discussion

• Benefits of Effective
Partnerships – Discussion

• Family Partnerships – Journal

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Developing Partnerships –
Assignment

• Effective Communication as
an Educational Leader –
Discussion

• Ethical and Respectful Family
Interactions – Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Communicating, Engaging,
and Encouraging Family
Partnerships – Assignment

• Family Support and
Information – Discussion

• Teachers, Families, and
Communities – Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Community Resources –
Assignment

• Families in Particular
Circumstances – Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Parent Message – Summative
Assessment

2. Defend the importance of
family and community
partnerships in early childhood
education.

1
1
2

2
2

3

4

5

6

6

• Understanding Diverse
Families – Discussion

• Diversity Trends in Families –
Discussion

• Types of Families and
Community Partnerships –
Discussion

• Family Partnerships – Journal

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Developing Family
Partnerships – Assignment

• Effective Communication as
an Educational Leader –
Discussion

• Teachers, Families, and
Communities – Discussion

• Families in Particular
Circumstances – Discussion

• The Importance of Family
Community Partnerships –
Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Parent Message – Summative
Assessment

3. Evaluate curriculum,
assessment and instruction in
an effort to improve outcomes

1
3

3

• Diversity Trends in Families –
Discussion

for young children, families,
and communities.

5
6
6

• Ethical and Respectful Family
Interactions – Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Communicating, Engaging,
and Encouraging Family
Partnerships – Assignment

• Leadership Journal – Journal

• Cultural Responsiveness –
Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Parent Message – Summative
Assessment

4. Design effective and ethical
communication and
collaboration strategies as an
educational leader in early
childhood education.

1
1

2

3

3

3

5

5

5
6
6

• Diversity Trends in Families –
Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Parenting Roles – Assignment

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Developing Family
Partnerships – Assignment

• Effective Communication as
an Educational Leader –
Discussion

• Ethical and Respectful Family
Interactions – Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Communicating, Engaging,
and Encouraging Family
Partnerships – Assignment

• Resolving Challenging
Attitudes and Behaviors –
Discussion

• Families in Particular
Circumstances – Discussion

• Leadership Journal – Journal

• Cultural Responsiveness –
Discussion

• Children, Families, and
Communities Guidebook:
Parent Message – Summative
Assessment