What can be pre-planned so everyone involved feels welcome, valued, included and comfortable ?

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This assignment is focused on expanding your knowledge of community resources available for children, families and early childhood educators by researching and creating practical working resources to directly support your collaborative practices.

Workshop

Create a practical, detailed 40-60 min. workshop outline that is focused on one identified target group from the list below. The workshop audience may be either families of young children or educators/administrators in a particular neighbourhood or geographic area – please be sure to identify these 3 elements at the outset (audience, target group and location). (2 marks).

This assignment has two major components: (a) planning & delivery (b) content. (25 marks)

Workshop planning and delivery is a critical piece of this assignment.

The workshop must be designed as a three party collaborative initiative that includes the 1) families, 2) educators, and 3) community partners as active contributors to the workshop from the planning onward.

Example #1: With the collaborative approach in mind, think about your audience and how you will ensure (& show in your assignment submission) that they are part of the planning process too (as opposed to being only attendees at a workshop).

Example #2: Again, with the collaborative approach in mind, think about (& show in your assignment submission,) how will you ensure that the community partners are working together in this workshop. Who is doing what? How are resources being utilized?

Delivery choices for the workshop require thoughtful, detailed planning.
Example #1: Will this be an in-person or an online workshop – think carefully about which modality would best match the purpose of the workshop, in the neighbourhood identified, and be most beneficial for the audience at hand.

Example #2: a power point presentation may not always be the best method for your workshop audience, and as such you may opt to choose another mode of content delivery (perhaps interactive and participatory or another…).

Whichever planning, delivery methods & modalities you choose, ensure that you specifically & briefly note all your rationales within your assignment submission.

Some starting ideas to consider in the planning & delivery:
How/who will decide the workshop is needed and what focus it will take?
Who else could be included? How will collaborative resources be utilized?
What communication modalities will be used for marketing this workshop? Would gatekeepers be helpful? If so – who are they and how would you find them?
What can be pre-planned so everyone involved feels welcome, valued, included and comfortable ?
Audience accessibility – time of year/day, transportation, children etc
Configuration of space/materials (if in-person) options
What location will it take place (host site) & why there
Costs & funders
How will the workshop success be measured?

The workshop content focus is to share supportive, meaningful resources and it must draw on and apply concepts addressed throughout this course so far. In the collaborative approach – everyone in the collaboration has potential to benefit in some way.
The workshop must be designed as a collaborative initiative that actively includes the families, educators and community partners as active contributors from the planning onward. Course knowledge and understanding will be visible in your workshop design & style of delivery as well as the content.

Some starting ideas to consider regarding content:
– content relevancy for the identified audience – is it directly usable
– workshop relevancy/benefits for collaborative partners
– quantity of information
– how might they remember key points easily and quickly

As well as completeness, accuracy & evidence of depth of understanding, organization, writing quality, creativity, clarity of message, ease of access to resources for workshop attendees will also be considered in marking. (3 marks)

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Target Group choices
Fathers / father figures in families
Indigenous families
Families as newcomers to Canada (immigrant or refugee)
Grandparents raising or co-raising their grandchildren