Assignment title: Information
Week 3 assignment Skills, Dispositions and Data Collection
This week, you will continue your pilot research study by conducting an interview at the early
childhood program that you contacted. Gather tools to be able to take notes during the interview,
as you will be turning in this “raw data” with your written assignment.
In addition to the three questions you developed, be sure to include the following questions in
your interview:
What are the daily processes and routines families goes through as they come to and
leave your program each day? What is the purpose behind these?
What aspects of the physical, social, and emotional environments support respect for
families and welcome their diverse characteristics and abilities?
What skills and dispositions should early childhood practitioners possess in order to
create and maintain collaborative relationships with the families?
Writing the Assignment
a. The assignment should be two to four pages, in addition to a separate title page, a
separate reference page and the appendix. Format your writing as follows: MS Word,
double-spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins all around and APA format. Your
reference page should now consist of at least four outside scholarly sources (two from
Week Two and two from Week Three), in addition to the textbook and required readings.
b. Describe the early childhood program and the community where it resides and explain
why you chose this program. Provide details on the demographics of the families and
community where the program resides.
c. Describe the process you went through to gather this information/data. (What steps did
you take to obtain background information and collect the responses to the interview
questions, etc.?) Be thorough and specific as the methodology is important to document
in any research process.
d. Provide a brief summary of the responses and compare them to aspects of your
philosophy and approach to family and community engagement. Identify similarities and
differences that you find and discuss connections between the interview responses and
quality of childcare issues identified in this week’s discussion topic.
e. Attach your interview notes as an appendix separate from the written paper assignment.
(These notes do not need to be in Standard English format but do need to be legible.)