Identify strategies for engaging with families and communities to inform your professional practice

Marking Criteria	High Distinction (HD)	Distinction (D)	Credit (C)	Pass (P)	Fail (F)
Introduces the background context	Provides background context on the chosen suburb for early learning centre including demographics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations and other relevant information about the locality from multiple sources and what it means for the writer as an educator.	Provides background context on the chosen suburb for the early learning centre including demographics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations and other relevant information about the locality from multiple sources.	Not applicable	Provides basic information about a chosen suburb from either one source or a range of sources.	Insufficient evidence
Importance of family and community engagement in early childhood	Importance of family and community engagement in early childhood is justified and elaborated in detail by information from multiple sources.	Importance of family and community engagement in early childhood is justified by information from multiple sources.	Importance of family and community engagement in early childhood is identified with reasons to support it.	Importance of family and community engagement in early childhood is identified.	Insufficient evidence
Identifies strategies for engaging families and communities	Strategies for engaging families and communities are justified, relevant to the information provided in the background context and elaborated in detail by information from multiple sources.	Strategies for engaging families and communities are justified by information from multiple sources.	Strategies for engaging families and communities are provided with a reason to support it.	Strategies for engaging families and communities are provided.	Insufficient evidence
6. Communicates ideas	Builds argument and	Not applicable	Structures writing to	Presents ideas using	No attempts have been

in writing for an	justification across the			link ideas across	language and grammar	made for the writing to
academic audience	paper leading to logical			different sections	of	conventions of	be presented in	a
and purpose	conclusions			the paper		Standard Australian	cohesive manner.
						English
7. Uses APA 7	Uses APA 7 referencing	Attributes	sources	Not applicable		Acknowledges sources	Insufficient evidence
referencing conventions to attribute sources cited	conventions at a publishable standard	using APA conventions minimal errors	7 with			with a bibliography
(citations and
references list)