Assignment:
Early Childhood Trends Talking Points
In this assignment, you will use the following transferable skills:
o Communication
o Digital fluency
o Information literacy
You will use these skills to contribute to professional, in-field knowledge through the creation of a product for your Public Policy Tool Kit: a document with talking points about trends in early childhood education.
Talking points are planned comments about a topic that can be used to guide a discussion. For this project assignment, you will create a presentation containing talking points for four current hot topics in the areas of health, growth, safety, and nutrition that you will use to educate community leaders and families.
To complete this assignment, do the following:
Select and research a topic in each of the following four categories in early childhood education:
1. Health: for example, immunizations, sanitized environments, mental health, allergies concerns, chronic illness
2. Growth: for example, typical vs. atypical development, brain development, executive function, holding children back from Kindergarten
3. Safety: for example, outdoor and indoor play, trained staff
4. Nutrition: for example, childhood obesity, meals
Your topics can come from the ideas listed above, or you can select your own topic within each category.
Use a minimum of four (4) credible sources for your research.