Reflective Analysis of Portfolio Artifact

Rationale/Reflection
NAEYC Standard:
STANDARD 2. BUILDING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS:
Candidates prepared in early childhood degree programs understand
that successful early childhood education depends upon partnerships with
childrens families and communities. They a) know about, understand, and
value the importance and complex characteristics of childrens families and
communities. They use this understanding to b) create respectful, reciprocal
relationships that support and empower families, and c) to involve all
families in their childrens development and learning (NAEYC, 2010).

Brief Description of Evidence:

As part of my ECED 204 Families in Transition course during the fall
semester of 2015, I worked singularly on a project called Helping Hands
Family Support Kit over transgender families that gave them books for the
children, adults, and teens along with community resources they could use to
seek help or more information. In the process of completing this project I was
able to give a family recourses that could bring them together and be more
involved in their childs learning. I was also able to get information out to
other families about the type of family I was given.

Analysis of What I Learned:

In the completion of this project, I learned how to find resources in my
community. I learned how I could create positive, respectful, and reciprocal
relationships with families that supports and empowers them by making
newsletters for parents, making family and community involvement
calendars, and by giving families resources of fun things they can do in their
communities. Through the presentations of other classmates projects, I was
able to learn about the diverse needs of other types of families. While
completing this project I learned to involve all families in their childs
development and learning in a variety of ways such as making family night
calendars where they can do activities at home, family nights at school,
telling the parent(s) what we worked on that day and how they can help at
home.

How This Artifact demonstrates my Competence on the

NAEYC Standard:
By using local resources I was able to meet the needs of families when

they need support and getting them out into the community. By doing this it
gives parents, children, and teens the support and resources that they need
to strive. This project works well with Maslows Hierarchy of Needs in the
fact if a child does not feel secure in her family then she will struggle feeling
loved by them which will affect her role and her familys role in the
community. I am able to seek local resources and work with diverse families
in their efforts to support their childs development and learning while also
empowering the family to take initiative to be involved in the things done in
and out of school and the community.