Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Assessing and Advocating for Early Childhood Services
$250.00
Dates: July 7 - August 3Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
Continuously assessing your early childhood programs and services through differentiated methods will help guide your programs toward effectively meeting the needs of children, families, and early care and education providers in your community. Gathering information and collecting data helps you determine program effectiveness and support your early childhood program advocacy efforts. In this class, you will learn about the different methods that your library can use to assess program effectiveness, including self-assessments, participant feedback surveys, and evaluations. You will get hands-on practice creating and implementing assessment tools and creating an advocacy plan for early childhood programs.
After taking this class, successful participants will be able to:
- Complete a self-assessment of their own early childhood program to measure effectiveness of program lesson plans, strategies, and program implementation
- Develop, implement, and collect data from a participant feedback survey to measure program effectiveness
- Create and implement a quality improvement action plan to help increase program effectiveness based on assessment, evaluation, and survey data
- Create an elevator speech/advocacy statement to share with library administration and local policy makers which is focused on the importance of early childhood and early literacy programs
Expectations: This class is four weeks of content. There WILL be homework during the fourth week which will be due by the end of the fifth week. Although there are individual differences, you may expect each week to take 3 – 4 hours of work which includes the readings, watching the presentations, participating in forums, and submitting assignments.
This course is part of our Certificate in Early Childhood Literacy, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Course Description
Continuously assessing your early childhood programs and services through differentiated methods will help guide your programs toward effectively meeting the needs of children, families, and early care and education providers in your community. Gathering information and collecting data helps you determine program effectiveness and support your early childhood program advocacy efforts. In this class, you will learn about the different methods that your library can use to assess program effectiveness, including self-assessments, participant feedback surveys, and evaluations. You will get hands-on practice creating and implementing assessment tools and creating an advocacy plan for early childhood programs.
After taking this class, successful participants will be able to:
- Complete a self-assessment of their own early childhood program to measure effectiveness of program lesson plans, strategies, and program implementation
- Develop, implement, and collect data from a participant feedback survey to measure program effectiveness
- Create and implement a quality improvement action plan to help increase program effectiveness based on assessment, evaluation, and survey data
- Create an elevator speech/advocacy statement to share with library administration and local policy makers which is focused on the importance of early childhood and early literacy programs
Expectations: This class is four weeks of content. There WILL be homework during the fourth week which will be due by the end of the fifth week. Although there are individual differences, you may expect each week to take 3 – 4 hours of work which includes the readings, watching the presentations, participating in forums, and submitting assignments.
This course is part of our Certificate in Early Childhood Literacy, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Dorothy Stoltz
Dorothy Stoltz is a professional librarian, author, and consultant. She has served as programming and outreach manager and community engagement director. Dorothy advocates for the quality of our thinking and our love of learning as being incomplete without the support of each other. Dorothy retired with the Carroll County (MD) Public Library in 2021. She is author of six books for ALA Editions, and more with her own company, Waldo Publishers, which presents books inspired by the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson to “activate from within.” She offers mentoring, consulting, and training services on creativity, advocacy, collaboration, and peer learning for libraries and other organizations, through Stoltz Creative Consulting. https://www.instagram.com/stoltzcreative/
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