Homework: Blog- Engaging Families in the Classroom Community
For this Homework, you will continue your analysis of supportive learning environments by examining a dissertation focused on including families in the classroom community.
To Prepare:
Use the Walden Library to identify an early childhood dissertation, written within the last 5 years, that focuses on engaging families as important members of the broader classroom community. The dissertation you read should include in its literature review (Chapter 2) a discussion of family engagement in early childhood classroom communities and should reflect related principles of developmentally appropriate practice.
Note:
i. You may need to read/skim a number of dissertations before you find the ones you choose to use as the basis for this Homework.
ii. Additional information needed to complete this Homework should be available in Chapters 1 and 5 of the dissertations you choose.
Task
After reading the dissertation, and in particular Chapters 1, 2, and 5, create a post for your blog summarizing the following:
i. The title of the dissertation
ii. The early childhood problem researched in the dissertation along with a brief explanation of the study-study purpose, population/participants, methodology, data sources, and conclusions
iii. 3 resources used by the author, and why each was relevant to the study
iv. How this study reflects developmentally appropriate practice related to meaningful learning in supportive environments for young children.
v. How the information gleaned from this dissertation may further your work related to fostering supportive learning environments through positive classroom cultures and classroom communities for young children and their families.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.