My advocacy action plan is dedicated to making developmental screening a mandatory part of early childhood education. Developmental screening has so many great benefits to our children, parents, and educators. While making my plan, I came up with various ways to try and target my audience. I plan on doing so through information packet, holding meetings, making multimedia presentations and going into other early childhood settings to pass out pamphlets.
I would like to know if any of my colleague's have any other approaches that i can use to reach out to my audience? Does anyone have any other people in mind that I might benefit from talking and meeting with? I would also like to kow how you all will deal with the opposers of your plan and their views? So far I have found the Kieff text to be relativley helpful, and the google search engine for anything else I want to research.
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ReplyDeleteScreenings can be a good thing sometimes for teachers. It can give you an idea where that child is at and it can guide you to what areas you need to work on with child as well as letting the parent know also. Having a meeting at the beginning of the school year and doing a presentation with the parents at first meeting is a good way to inform them of what will be taking place and how the screening will help teachers in the classroom. You can have sample test to show on power point or you can use dvd to show what will be taking place with screening. Good Luck!!!
ReplyDeleteI am in great admiration of your topic. As someone who has worked in the field of early intervention for many years, I have found that early detection is critical for better outcomes. My advice for dealing with opposition is to identify the reasons why someone might be opposed to early childhood screanings. For instance, do they feel that developmental screenings are too time consuming for teachers? Do they feel that it will be too costly to run a screening program? Once you have identified their reasoning for being opposed to the issue, you can plan for and address their concerns. Find answers for their problems, before it is even brought up. For instance, if you have information pertaining to the amount of money that early detection will save the educational system in the long run, you will ba able to make their argument invalid. Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteScreenings are a good thing in this field. It gives you insight to a child and can help you better teach him or her. If you are targeting public schools, you can try talking with school boards and inform them of you plans as well. Screenings should be beneficial to all students in early child care and schools.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reviewing your presentation.
ReplyDeleteYou will do great on your presentation! I think its a great idea to go to other early childhood settings because I sure you audience will grow. Screening is very important because it helps you as a teacher, parent, and moving forward. Good luck
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