Disability and CYC practitioner

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to reflect on your emerging professional identity as a CYC practitioner. For this assignment, you are asked to examine the Competencies for Professional Child and Youth Work Practitioners (Association for Child and Youth Care Practice and Child and Youth Care Certification Board, 2010), introduced in Week 1, and consider how you might use these competencies in developing your knowledge and skill as a professional CYC practitioner, within the context of current debates about CYC as a profession. In developing your paper, use the following sub-headings and address the following questions: Introduction Provide a succinct introduction that provides an overview of your paper for your reader. Using the Competencies Document Having read the competencies document, please identify two competencies across which you feel you already have some knowledge, capacity, or ability at this point in time. Please also identify two competencies across which you would like to develop, improve, or enhance at this point in time. Ensure you provide a succinct explanation to support your claims. Provide a brief explanation about how you might use this document as you develop as a CYC practitioner. Profession or Craft? Reflecting on how you might use these competencies in your evolution as a CYC practitioner and the readings we have covered so far, how do you think CYC can be viewed as (a) a profession and/or (b) a craft ? Provide a succinct explanation to support your claims. Conclusion Provide a succinct conclusion to summarize your paper for your reader. Organize your reflections on the questions above into a paper of 500-750 words (2-3 typed, double-spaced pages, plus references). In discussing how you might use the competencies at various stages of your development as a CYC professional, be sure to discuss a specific example of how you might use the competencies for each of the following stages: entry level, professional, and advanced. Also, your completed assignment must contain at least two references to course readings or discussions. Save your assignment as either a Word or RTF document with the filename "Assignment1-yourname" and put it in the Assignment Drop Box. Name the electronic source(s) you submit with your assignment assign1-yourname and put it in the Assignment Drop Box with your assignment. Grading Criteria Accuracy and Completeness (6 marks) Provides references to at least two course readings in APA format. Discusses a specific example of the use of the competencies for each of the following career stages: entry level, professional, and advanced. Discusses the use of the competencies within the context of contemporary debates about CYC as a profession vs. a craft. Addresses the questions for the assignment within the specified length of 500-750 words. Organization and Presentation (4 marks) Structure of paper is clear, logical and congruent. Introduction provides a succinct overview of the intention and structure of the paper. Conclusion briefly and clearly summarizes the main points. Spelling, grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, pagination, punctuation and clarity of writing are at a 1st year University level. Language and terminology are relevant to the task, as well as simple, clear and free of unnecessary jargon.