Extra Credit- Research in Action
- Due Nov 6, 2022 by 11:59pm
- Points 0
- Submitting a website url, a media recording, or a file upload
Instructions
This extra credit project is designed for students who wish to explore further than the text and the class into child development. As you progress in your academic career, you will be called on to do this type of work. It is a great way to begin thinking about the "bigger" picture of advocacy and working with children and families.
Should you choose to complete this assignment, it will be due on week 10. You may not submit this late. It is an optional extra credit assignment.
Earlier in module 6, I introduced you to the Harvard Center for the Developing Child. One of the many amazing projects that they do includes Innovation in Action. Links to an external site.(See below for an excerpt from the site)
Researchers and practitioners get together and implement programs designed to help adults learn how to be better caregivers. For this extra credit project, find a current "social problem" in California. (child poverty, child malnutrition, migrant families, etc.) and then find one of the programs that might be implemented here in California to help with that problem. Our library staff Links to an external site. can help you with your search.
To earn up to 50 points of extra credit, you must:
Create a presentation, can be a website, blog, PowerPoint slide show, video, etc. (think about a news show in depth story) that does all of the following:
- Describes the social problem using data from the college library database.
- 10 points for a fully explained social problem. Looking for statistics, child outcomes, and extent of the problem.
- Explains why addressing the problem is important. ( You will have to search outside of those two sites for this information, you can see the librarian for help.)
- 10 points for a thorough explanation of what is or is not being done to help children and families now and why this is important.
- Describes the Innovative Program at Harvard that could be deployed here in California.
- 10 points for describing the program from Harvard and how it is applicable to the identified problem ( how can it help?)
- Explains how the program will help to address the problem ( what is the expected outcome?)
- 10 points for an in depth explanation. Has it worked somewhere else? What kind of impact is expected?
- Your presentation must meet college level standards and be professional in appearance.
- 10 points, you have a thorough introduction, conclusion, works cited references and is in APA format.
Harvard Frontiers of Innovation:
Within the Frontiers of Innovation Links to an external site. (FOI) network, researchers, practitioners, and community members co-create and evaluate new ideas in a diversity of project settings.
The work of FOI is guided by the theory that we must build the capabilities of adults
Links to an external site. in order to achieve significant outcomes for the children in their care. These same capabilities also enhance adults’ employability and increase the economic and social stability of the family, thereby further reducing sources of family stress. Expanding adult capabilities also improves their capacities as caregivers, enabling them to help young children build effective coping skills to overcome adversity and strengthen the foundations of lifelong resilience
Links to an external site.. Building on this evolving theory of change
Links to an external site., we view the communities in which families raise children as important contexts for designing and testing new strategies for enhancing protective factors and reducing identified sources of toxic stress
Links to an external site. that impose enormous burdens on parents of young children.
Programs by Area of Focus
Each project helps test FOI’s overarching theory
Links to an external site. that we must build adult capabilities
Links to an external site. to improve outcomes for children through a more specific theory of change
Links to an external site. that targets the unmet needs of particular subpopulations. The following categories represent different areas of focus within the Frontiers of Innovation portfolio. Within each category, you’ll find selected project examples, with details about their theories of change, activities, and what we have learned from them so far.
Rubric
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Describes the social problem using data from the library - 10 points
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Describes how the Innovative Program at Harvard could be deployed in California 10 points
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Explains how the program will help to address the problem 10 points
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College Level Standards, Intro, Conclusion, Works Cited - 10 points
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