Each week, your assignment will require you to evaluate this organization. You may use an organization you currently belong to, a past organization, or an organization that you identify through research. Be sure to review the types of information you will need for the project (all five weeks) before choosing your organization. You might need to create some hypothetical details to fill gaps in researched information. However, the project should use as much real information as possible.
You should have your organization approved by your instructor before moving forward with the assignment. Contact your instructor early in the week to gain approval.
For the Week 1 paper, complete the following tasks:
Summarize key details about your organization. What does it do? Who are its customers, clients, prospects, or constituents? For convenience in this class, we will call them customers.
Perform a SWOTT analysis, placing particular emphasis on long-term trends affecting your organization and what your competitors are doing.
Analyze the organization’s mission statement. Does it address the following core components?Customers—who do we serve?
Product/service—what do we provide?
Market—who/where are our customers?
Core competencies—how do we provide or deliver our product/service? What gives us a competitive advantage?
Measurability—how do we know when we are successful?

Defend a new/revised mission statement. It should be a succinct statement of what the organization is, what it does, and who its customers are. Be sure to support why your revisions are an improvement to the current mission statement.
Submission Details:
Submit your plan in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style

  roject Instructions
Project: Synthesizing What I Have Learned in This Program
As you begin your journey in this course, consider what you have learned throughout this program and how it can apply to your future work in the early childhood/child development field. Synthesizing and reflecting on this knowledge will help you understand how far you have come, what is important to you, and what you want to do in your career. Keep in mind that although you have come a long way by successfully completing your coursework in this program, this part of your Capstone project will serve as preliminary thinking. You will continue to build on and inform the vision of your career and the professional contribution you would like to make to the field as you proceed through this course.
Part 1: Professional Preparation
You will first need to take time to review the list of course descriptions and texts, revisit the textbooks you have read, and reflect on the coursework you completed. Which courses stand out for you as particularly strong learning experiences? Which readings and videos changed the way you think about children and families, child development, and key issues in the field? Which assignments stretched your thinking, opened up your mind, made you question your own thinking, and helped prepare you as an effective early childhood professional?
To complete Part 1:
Choose a minimum of five courses from the Bachelor of Science program in Child Development, summarize what you learned, and explain how this learning has informed your philosophy of child development. Next, summarize how your learning will impact your effectiveness as an early childhood/child development professional. Then, choose a minimum of five books and/or readings from your courses that will definitely be a part of your professional library and explain why. Part 2: Professional Hopes and Dreams
Based on what you have learned in the program about child development, the field of early childhood, working with young children and their families, and yourself, describe a minimum of three opportunities you are looking for in your next job.
For Part 2, complete the following:
“As my career advances, I will be looking for a job in which I will have the opportunities to….”
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Assignment length: 2 – 3 pages