Assignment task: You are an Early Childhood Educator and your Key Project is helping kindergarten children transition into grade one. Please answer each question.
1. Explain the rationale for choosing your Key Project.
2. Write a paragraph that describes how the rationale for your Key Project relates to your academic coursework. Include citations.
3. Specifically illustrate how your Key Project and the activities and experiences associated with the Project are above and beyond your current job responsibilities.
4. The pandemic continues to impact workplaces. Discuss how you plan to adapt your Key Project in response to University, municipal, or provincial regulations. For example, if your workplace pivots from being in-person to being virtual, or from being virtual to being in-person, how will this impact your Key Project? What will you need to do differently? What factors will you need to take into account?
5. Describe how the children at your workplace will be meaningfully involved in the development and implementation of your Key Project.
6. Describe how the families at your workplace will be meaningfully involved in the development and implementation of your Key Project.
7. Describe how the staff at your workplace will be meaningfully involved in the development and implementation of your Key Project.
8. Write a paragraph that explains how your Key Project will address inclusion.
9. How do you plan to document the experiences and activities of your workplace placement?
10. How will your Key Project, and the activities and experiences associated with the Project, meet your career interests and future career goals, assuming that your goal is to become a teacher?