How can poverty impact children’s overall development (physical, cognitive, and social-emotional)? What strategies can be used to empower families facing the challenges of poverty and engage them in their children’s learning?
Kellogg Community College Early Childhood Education Program
ECE 210: Child Growth & Development
For this assignment, you will conduct research to respond to the following questions:
How can poverty impact children’s overall development (physical, cognitive, and social-emotional)? What
strategies can be used to empower families facing the challenges of poverty and engage them in their
children’s learning?
You will write a paper that is a minimum of 2 pages (less than 2 pages will not be graded) in length. You will
use APA format and include the following:
∙ Introduction
✔ Include highlights from research conducted and a summary of the main points presented in
your paper
∙ Identify how poverty can impact children’s overall development (include physical development, cognitive
development, and social-emotional development). (NAEYC Standard 1b: Knowing and understanding of the
multiple influences on the development and learning of children)
✔ Include three specific examples of how poverty can affect each area of development (nine
examples total in this section).
✔ Examples must be supported by research and correctly cited in APA format.
∙ Identify how poverty can affect the functioning of the family system. (NAEYC Standard 2a: Knowing
about and understanding diverse fam ily and community characteristics)
✔ Include three specific examples of how poverty can affect the functioning of the family system.
✔ Examples must supported by research and correctly cited in APA format.
∙ Identify two community resources available for families facing the challenges of poverty and state how
each resource engages the family and supports the overall development of the child and the family
unit. (NAEYC Standard 2b: Supporting and engaging families and communities through respectful,
reciprocal relationships)
✔ Provide clear and informative statements on how each identified community resource would
engage the family
✔ Explain how each identified community resource would help the family support the overall
development of their child and their family unit
✔ Describe how you would establish a reciprocal relationship with the family and connect the
family to the community resource
✔ You are welcome to reflect on local resources specific to your community, or comment on any
of the following: Head Start, Charitable Union, Community Action, Family and Children’s
Services, Family Health Center, Food Bank, Goodwill Industries, HandsOn, (The) Haven of Rest
Ministries, etc.
∙ Describe how you can empower families facing these challenges and involve them in their children’s
learning and development. (NAEYC Standard 2c: Involving families and communities in their children’s
development and learning)
✔ Explain two specific strategies that can be utilized that will demonstrate understanding and
support of the needs and challenges of the family when empowering them and promoting their
involvement in their children’s learning and development
∙ Conclusion (NAEYC 6c: Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice; using
technology effectively with young children, with peers, and as a professional resource)
✔ Summarize what you learned through your research and reflections
✔ Include three specific ways you will either change your practice or why you will continue with a
current practice based on what you have learned through your research and examination of
sources.
Information for your paper will be based upon any of the following sources:
1. Class discussions, activities, and lectures
2. Readings from the textbook
3. Readings from professional journals
4. Readings from credible Internet research articles
Paper format must include the following:
✔ Professional language usage, correct grammar and spelling, complete sentence structure,
double spacing, 12 pt. font (NAEYC Supportive Skill 3: Written and Verbal Skills)
✔ Use of professional resources (NAEYC Supportive Skill 5)
✔ Connections between prior knowledge / experience and new learning (NAEYC Supportive Skill 4)
All information must be appropriately cited. Please include one page of resources. Number each resource.
The following link contains an APA Style Guide on how to properly cite resources:
http://guides.kellogg.edu/content.php?pid=32706&sid=1809991
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