VVC Child Development Professional Portfolio Program Learning Outcome (PLO) Coversheet: PLO #4 PLO 4: Develop and implement strategies that promote partnerships between programs, teachers, families, and their communities

VVC Child Development Professional Portfolio Program Learning Outcome (PLO) Coversheet: PLO #4 PLO 4: Develop and implement strategies that promote partnerships between programs, teachers, families, and their communities. Related Assignments (these are assignments required in other VVC CHDV courses to provide you with the prerequisite knowledge and skills needed to prepare for your student teaching course). Reviewing these assignments may help you identify the knowledge and skills you currently have related to this PLO. • • Research Project on Community Issues and Resources (CHDV106) Samples of family communication: o Child Progress Report (DRDP-for parents) (CHDV 160) o Parent Letter (CHDV 150, CHDV 210) o Culturally Relevant Curriculum (CHDV 200) (Optional) • • Knowledge at the beginning of CHDV210: Please list (using bullet points) the knowledge you currently have related to this Program Learning Outcome (PLO). Skills at the beginning of CHDV210: Please list (using bullet points) the skills you currently have related to this Program Learning Outcome (PLO). NOTE: the following sections should be based upon your student teaching experiences. **Growth: Please discuss how your knowledge and skills listed above have grown as a result of your student teaching experiences. Please provide very specific examples from your student teaching experiences that illustrate your growth in knowledge and skills. (Follow the grading rubric!) **Beliefs: How have your student teaching experiences influenced your beliefs about the importance of creating partnerships between programs, teachers, families and their communities? **Future Growth & Action Plan: Think about your future teaching, list three specific “goals” to help you improve upon your existing knowledge, skills and teaching practices (related to this specific PLO). Also, identify how you will achieve each of these three goals. Be specific. For instance, will you enroll in a course? If so, what course? Will you read a book? What book?