• Document #2: NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria Overview
• Document #3: NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria
• Document #4: NAEYC's Engaging Diverse Families Self-Assessment Checklist
• Website: NAEYC Accredited Program Search

Review the "NAEYC's Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria" (Document #3) and the "NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Project Program Self-Assessment Checklist" (Document #4) provided as part of this Work Product:

1. Explain the purpose of the "NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria" and the importance of using them to for assessing program quality.
2. Explain how the "NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Self-Assessment Checklist" is a useful tool in program evaluation.

Part II of your Assessment requires that you use the NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria and the NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Self-Assessment Checklist to evaluate an early childhood program. Identify and contact the director of a site (a site in which you work or site in which you are familiar). Explain that you are learning about program standards and practices supporting families and how to evaluate early childhood programs. Ask the director if you can send, via email, the NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Project Program Self-Assessment Checklist to and return to you.

PART II of your Assessment requires that you Part 7 of the "NAEYC's Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria" and two other portions of the Assessment instrument. To complete this instrument and the "NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Self-Assessment Checklist," you will need to analyze the results of the checklist from the center director.

From the NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Project Program Self-Assessment Checklist results, you will develop a compilation of strengths and opportunity based on your results. Develop a list of what was marked as "Yes" and "No" across each instrument, and compile and overall list of what you see as the programs overall strengths and areas of opportunity.

Share your evaluation with the director of the center who completed the NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Project Program Self-Assessment Checklist or a colleague. The colleague could be another student engaged in this competency or a colleague in the early childhood profession. Collaborate with him or her to develop at least tworecommendations to strengthen or improve this program. Based on your interviews, notes, observations, and collaboration, page paper that includes the following:

1. A narrative evaluation of the program's quality in relation to the results of the NAEYC Engaging Diverse Families Project Program Self-Assessment Checklist. Your evaluation should describe areas of strength and opportunity for this program. Support your evaluation with specific evidence related to "NAEYC Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria,"
2. At least two recommendations you have for this program based on the standards. Your recommendations must be grounded in the professional knowledge base.
3. Should you NOT have the opportunity to conduct an observation and interview with a director, describe effective collaboration skills, including a description of the skills or tools you could use to collaborate? How could your work with the director or colleague inform the development of your recommendations?