Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

The first communities of practice organization is a local one for the Tennessee’s Shelby county. The organization is called the (MAPP) Mobilizing Action through Planning and Partnership. This organization is about improving the health of residents in Shelby County.

1.       They discovered 5 issues that affect the health of the residents in the county, which are healthy lifestyles, violence, mental health, health disparities, and collaboration.

2.       It is a strategic approach to community health improvement this involves professional from all realms to create opportunities for improvement.

3.       They focus on all entities working together instead of separate to optimize their efforts. “Every resident, business, organization or association throughout Shelby County is important and will work together to achieve our vision of a healthy community.”

4.       Their vision is to provide and assure opportunities for every resident to develop and participate in activities and services that enhance their health, wellbeing, and quality of life.

5.       The career opportunities would direct for the individual organizations involved in the practice.

6.       The thing I like most is the collaboration between all faculties in the city to make everyone a stakeholder including the residents.

http://www.communitycommons.org/groups/community-issues-management-cim/united-way-of-the-mid-south/mapp-strategic-health-priorities/

The second communities of practice organization are the Christian Engaged in Faith Formation. This is group of Christian educators who what to focus on their responsibility for Christian education or faith formation in any of its diverse forms, in and beyond the local church, they are in an association of United Methodists and persons from other denominations.

They encourage participation from all individuals regardless of their religious beliefs or affiliations. They work together in developing trainings like webinars and seminar trainings and conferences all to provide networking techniques. The one thing I like is that they want you to enhance your vocational commitment through active participation. In order to encourage this and other incentives they offer memberships to keep commitments from participants.

http://www.cefumc.org/blogpost/955635/184065/Tennessee-CEF-Launches-Communities-of-Practice

The Immersion Program is a program that helps promote literacy, through its work with librarians and their instruction. This program is under the Association of College and Research Libraries. This group can be beneficial in offer support to any organization that wants to implement literacy components into their programs. “Immersion allows you to embrace your educational role by embarking on a path of teacher development and pedagogical inquiry in a community of practice for academic librarians devoted to collaborative learning, individual renewal, and instructional effectiveness.” The quality of this program I like most is that they do their program in a curriculum styles to direct what is being learned then they promote the teaching of themselves to others.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/immersion