ECE PPD4

Issued by Heartland Community College

Earners can utilize effective, ethical, culturally competent communication and collaboration skills when interacting with children, families, and colleagues and as a member of early childhood teams.

Type Validation
Level Intermediate
Time Hours
Cost Paid

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

Utilize respectful, responsive, culturally, and linguistically sensitive language and gestures
Utilize respectful, responsive, culturally, and linguistically sensitive tone
Apply proper grammar, spelling, and terms when communicating with young children, families, and colleagues
Use technology with facility when interacting with children, families, and as a member of an early childhood team
Communication and collaboration skills used reflective of a commitment to continuous learning
Advocacy skills are demonstrated (identifying a challenge, utilizing communication and collaboration skills to address challenge)
Demonstrate communication and collaboration skills that are reflective of appropriate professional expectations and current technologies. Includes but not limited to: • Communicates with families in their preferred language • Uses clear and positive language and gestures with young children • Uses a positive tone to communicate with families and colleagues
Use appropriate technology with facility to support communication with colleagues and families, as appropriate
CHLD 239 and CHLD 209
Link with Rubric assessment values attached

Standards

6c ECE2-3

Use clear and positive language and gestures with young children

6c ECE2-2

Use a positive, professional tone to communicate with families and colleagues

6c ECE1-2

Supports communication with families in their preferred language

6b ECE2-4

Reflect upon and integrate into practice professional guidelines such as national, state, or local standards and regulations and position statements from professional associations as appropriate for the role/ designation in the profession

6c ECE2-1

Apply proper grammar, spelling, and usage of terms when communicating with young children, families, and colleagues equivalent to the expected level of a college graduate

6c ECE2-5

Use appropriate technology with facility to support communication with colleagues and families, as appropriate

6d ECE2-4

Participate in collaborative learning communities, informal or formal, with colleagues and with professionals in related disciplines

6d ECE2-2

Lead teaching teams in birth through age 5 settings through providing guidance to teaching team members, conducting performance evaluations, identifying professional growth needs in members of the teaching team, and adhering to personnel policies in the early learning setting

6a ECE1-3

Advocate for resources and policies that support young children and their families as well as for early childhood educators, with a primarily focus on advocacy within the early learning setting

6c ECE1-3

Use clear and positive language and gestures with young children

6c ECE1-4

Use a positive, professional tone to communicate with families and colleagues

6c ECE1-5

Use appropriate technology with facility to support communication with colleagues and families, as appropriate