Assignment 1 – 1 ½ page -Apa
Readings and Resources
- Child Maltreatment, An Introduction: Chapter 8
- Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma (YouTube video, 07:53, captioned)
- Hoft, M., & Haddad, L. (2017). Screening children for abuse and neglect: A review of the literature. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 13(1), 26-34.
It is said child protective services suffer from high caseworker turnover and burnout.
Read this article: He, A. S., Phillips, J. D., Lizano, E. L., Rienks, S., & Leake, R. (2018). Examining internal and external job resources in child welfare: Protecting against caseworker burnout. Child Abuse & Neglect, 81, 48-59.
1. Based upon the information/knowledge that you gained in the article above and the other readings in this course, address the following:
- Summarize the article read above making sure to discuss the resources mentioned in the article that may prove useful for caseworkers experiencing burnout.
- What, based on course concepts and your own understanding, are the major reasons for this?
- What can be done to improve child welfare services?
- Discuss the need for understanding cultural issues impacting the global phenomena of child maltreatment.
Assignment 2 – 2 page -MLA
this module’s reading in Essentials of Children’s Literature, your three chosen books, and the one article you researched.
What comes to mind when you think of the terms Diversity and Inclusion? Are they the same? Are they different? How? This will start you on a journey to discover more about the importance of diversity and inclusion in children’s literature.
this has two parts:
1. Summarize the article on diversity in children’s literature or education that you researched. Provide a few sentences of engagement and commentary.
Remember that to find the article, you should use internet sites, such as Children’s Literature Assembly. If you opt for other sites, make sure your article is from a .org, .gov, or .edu site.
2. Summarize and analyze each of three children’s books on diversity and inclusion that you read. Introduce each book, the author, and intended age group. Provide a brief plot summary and describe the illustrations. What does each book suggest about the importance of diversity and inclusion in children’s books, and why? Align your ideas about your books with information contained within the article you chose. Make sure to cite your articles and books at the end of your posting in MLA format.
Remember that two of the books should feature characters from other ethnicities or cultures, and the third book should feature characters who are disabled (physical, developmental, learning, emotional, etc.). An excellent resource to start looking for books and blogs over Diversity and Inclusion in children’s literature is EmbraceRace.org. Another engaging site that allows you to search their book collections is Diversebookfinder.org. Remember that many books are available electronically for free through public libraries and online resources, such as Worldreader.org.
Assignment 3 -MLA
you have been exposed to a number and variety of children’s books for an array of audiences. For this project, you will get to tap into your creative side and write a short children’s book, a Power Point (15-20 slides), This project must include illustrations and/or photography. Your book will need to feature some aspect of diversity and/or inclusion, either as a theme or with the characters you choose. Your book can be fiction (realistic, science fiction, fantasy, or historical fiction) or nonfiction (biography, autobiography, or memoir).
To help you get an idea for the structure, formatting, content, and use of text and space, open any children’s book and use it as a model.
For this project, you will:
- determine the targeted age group of your readers as this will set the purpose and tone
- focus on a lesson for the book to teach
- focus on some aspect of diversity or inclusion
- create a setting (time and place) and use vivid, engaging descriptions. There are two types of settings. Temporal setting refers to time (Autumn, evening, Christmas, dusk, dawn, 3am). Spatial setting refers to place (the kitchen, Austria, a ranch in West Texas, a National Park, an ostrich farm).
- use illustrations or photography appropriate to the age, audience, theme, and tone of your story. Illustrations and/or photographs may be your own, from someone you know (used with permission), or Creative Commons images from open source cites (e.g., Pixabay)
- use visual balance between negative and positive space
- avoid too much text bunched together on one page
- follow one of the children’s books we have read this semester as a model, in terms of dialogue, composition and placement of images, size of font, title and author pages, etc.
- spellcheck and proofread before submitting
- include a Works Cited slide to document any primary and secondary sources
- remember a book cover, a title, and author name
Part 2. Analysis
Include in the same file as your children’s book a 2 pages, double spaced) analysis of your creative choices for the book. Explain:
- the age range you intended
- why the book’s focus or lesson is appropriate for the chosen age range
- how your book addresses diversity and/or inclusion
- why you chose the type of images that you used (the type of images, with a few specific examples — you do not have to explain every image)
- how the language you used is appropriate for the age range and purpose of the book (with a few specific examples)
- why you chose the sources you used, and how you used them; make sure to cite the sources appropriately.