Poster Theory Assignment
Description
This is an opportunity to creatively examine your theoretical orientation in greater depth and to share your research with the class. You will create an electronic poster presentation that outlines your theoretical orientation and provides resources for further examination. This poster will take considerable time to gather and organize the information. Students should begin working on this assignment as soon as you have completed Reflection Two and you have identified your theoretical orientation. You may do this assignment as an individual or with a partner. You must notify this. Instructor by week four if you will be completing this assignment individually or with a partner.
Purpose of this Assignment
Child and Youth Care Practitioners must be prepared to plan, implement and evaluate interventions using evidence-informed practices and be able to identify and discuss the theoretical/empirical basis for the interventions we use. This assignment will increase our understanding of theory and evidence informed practice in child and youth care. Working from an evidence informed-perspective is identified by the Ministry that governs our program.
Poster Theory Assignment
Assignment Expectations
Following the completion of reflections one and two you will have identified your theoretical orientation (using the theoretical orientation questionnaire found in your text). Using your own theoretical orientation (or your partners – if working with a partner), you will create an electronic/virtual poster. Be creative, professional and ensure it is visually appealing.
Expectations include:
- You may use any software/program to create your virtual poster as long as it can be
submitted as a link to a file (Canva is one example).
If you use a free software trial, make sure the trial does not expire for at least two weeks after submission date and that you have the option to save the final product in a format that can be viewed by anyone
Poster Theory Assignment
- Your poster must include the following:
- A statement of your life philosophy (one statement for each person if working with a partner)
- An understanding of the school of thought your theory falls under
- An understanding of the specific theory
- A description of how this theory explains why/how change occurs
- Information about past and present major theorist(s) that have contributed to this theory
- An understanding of the common therapy techniques used with this theoretical orientation
- A minimum of two specific therapeutic activities that can be used with a specific population of children or youth (latency, adolescents, children with autism, children with anxiety etc.) – provide specific details that would be helpful for a child and youth worker
- A minimum of two training opportunities that are available – where and how can you continue your training in this theoretical orientation (training with a master)
- A minimum of two scholarly articles that relate to your theory (summarize the article with links to source)
- A summary (one to two paragraphs) of one CYC article related to CYC approaches to interventions (with APA references/citations)
Poster Theory Assignment
- Each student is required to give constructive professional feedback to all other posters as part of this assignment (Week 14 is dedicated to presenting your poster and providing feedback). Marks are deducted from your final mark for students who do not give feedback to others. Well-constructed feedback is required.
- All pictures and sourced information must include APA 7 citations and references and follow the CC copyright policy. Pixabay is a good source for images – remember you must still credit the photographer. Citations must be located on the poster
with the information it is associated with. References may be included as a separate file and/or on the poster.
- You may not cut and paste/direct quote any information for this assignment. All information must be paraphrased and include citations and references.
- If you include pictures from a copyright free source, you must include APA citations and references that identify the source.
Refer to http://library.centennialcollege.ca/copyright/students for more information regarding copyright.
Poster Theory Assignment
Accommodation
Any student who requires accommodations/support with assignments will be fully supported. If you require accommodation, please provide faculty with a copy of your individual student profile (ISP).
If you require a change to a submission due date or assignment modifications, please ensure you have provided faculty with an up-to-date ISP and make these arrangements at least one week prior to the due date.
Any student who wishes to discuss a different assignment format to demonstrate your understanding of the learning outcome should feel free to arrange a meeting with this faculty. APA.