Work Plan

Gina Brower

10/9/17

1. To improve communication skills with families

a. Dates Planned: 10/4/17
b. Experience/Activity: Home Visits
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/4/17
d. Description of involvement and reflection: We visited two families
that day and we were met by two other specialist one was a speech
therapist and one was a sign language specialist. They work together
to improve speech of a two-year-old that has a rare disorder that
causes her to be fed by a feeding tube and unable to communicate of
what she wants. They were preparing to have her go to preschool
within two weeks from the visit.
2. To observe professional skills at work
a. Dates Planned: 10/25/17
b. Experience/Activity: STAR
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/25/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This event was about
providing teachers a way for children to learn their phonetic
awareness of their letters. The AEA provided books and other
assessment tools for teachers to use to give children knowledge and
interest in reading books. It also included, that children would need to
know how to treat a book when they read a book.
3. To become familiar with staffing procedures at this program: personal
policies, job description, hiring & firing
a. Dates Planned: 10/25/17
b. Experience/Activity: Asking Questions about the agency and Job
Description
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/25/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This event involved
interviewing my site supervisor about the type of job she does and
how she impacts families within the job. This gave me a chance to
learn about how the agency works as with families. She also, gave a
 perspective about how families do get nervous when the AEA starts
helping them when their child is struggling.
4. To become acquainted with the personal involved in the operation of this
program
a. Dates Planned: 11/2/17
b. Experience/Activity: Hearing Specialist
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 11/2/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This experience is about
how a hearing specialist helps deaf, hearing impaired and hard of
hearing children. She also has three special machines that detects
anything out of the normal. When the families came in to get their
children screened for say fluid in the ear and contacting the doctor
for families.
5. To become familiar with the persona/l policies of this program
a. Dates Planned: 10/17/17
b. Experience/Activity: Staff In-service
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/17/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This event included an in-
service of all the staff on the Pocahontas site. It summarized how
they are including principles in IEP meeting in the school and how they
need to step up their responsibility on being a principle of a school
with children that need AEA services. They will be excluded from a
meeting if they dont get involved as an administrator should for the
children in the school district.
6. To describe my supervisors role & understand employment opportunities
similar to this
a. Dates Planned: 10/24/17
b. Experience/Activity: Asking Questions Assignment
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/24/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: When this event occurred
when I was asking questions about how she fits on the leadership
board or ladder of the AEA. She told me that there is a person over
each department and how each head department person checks up on
each other by driving to different Prairie Lakes AEA to check with
 the early childhood associates. She also, has the head person above
come and talk to her when they do their check up on her.
7. To participate in personal & professional staff development associate with
this program
a. Dates Planned: 11/7/17
b. Experience/Activity: Planning a Math Session for Early Childhood
Educators
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 11/7/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This event included
planning a session that includes groups of teachers from different
districts that the AEA supports or covers. We had to plan activities
to get the educators involved of the learning they might need to help
children understand the concepts of math. They developed a schedule
on which they could plan each activity so they would have enough time
for them to do each activity and have lunch.
8. To attend & be involved in staff-in-services
a. Dates Planned: 10/17/17
b. Experience/Activity: Staff In-services
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 10/17/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This in-service was also
about how each department could work together to provide a better
to work together as a whole department instead of working
separately. They also wanted people to be grateful on what they do
for a living and how big their impact is as a whole.
9. To attend meetings with my supervisor
a. Dates Planned: 11//7/17
b. Experience/Activity: Planning Math Session
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 11/7/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: This event was about how
we developed a plan with two other childhood specialists at the AEA.
While Jessica and the first Early Childhood Specialist were taking
about how they were going to include the previous information they
learned about last time. They also wanted to include new information
about how the gold standards apply to what they teach day to day.
10. To learn & use appropriate professional behavior
a. Dates Planned: 11/21/17
b. Experience/Activity: Putting together Binders for Early Childhood
Educators
c. Date of Actual Involvement: 11/21/17
d. Description of Involvement and Reflection: When this event happened,
I started to put together binders filled with information for the home
visitors to give to the families as a resource if they are having trouble
when they arent there. They also can use it for an assessment tool
for some developmental delays they might see as a parent when the
home visitor isnt there too.