by | Dec 22, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
Assignment:
For this assignment, you will be placed (virtually) in a real-world scenario that occurs in schools. Please read the following description of the authentic performance task and complete the requirements as described in the scenario.
SCENARIO
“Imagine you are an Early Childhood Behavior Specialist that is providing a free training presentation to new parents of infants and toddlers. Your mission is to teach parents all about prosocial behavior and will include the topics of sharing, cooperating, and helping so that they can work with their child at home to prepare and teach their children to become prosocial and to understand how they can help their child as they develop. You will write an essay that discusses each key topic and three key ideas for each topic that you would focus on if you were training parents.”
The program description should be 110-1500 words and should include at least four (4) citations. The sections should be clearly marked with headings so that your instructor knows which points you are addressing. Your plan should be realistic, coherent, and precise, and should address all three required components in a research-based manner using text support and outside research to create a comprehensive training presentation. Follow the guidelines for APA writing style. The title page and references page do not count towards the minimum word amount for this assignment.
by | Dec 19, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
We have discussed and/or read about a whole range of theories to better conceptualize and think through childhood. We have also read and screened films about,and discussed “real life stories” of people – children, thinking about their childhood, and experiencing childhood. In your final paper, I want you to use your own life story as a “case study, think about your childhood and life story so far, I want you to write up a coherent narrative about part of your life story. However, I don’t just want you to tell your story. I want you to analyze it through the use of the theories we have discussed. I want you to make sense of your life not as just you but as part of a larger social system. Depending on what stands out to you in your own story, you will choose a theory to discuss it. See below for possible topics and guiding questions.
Examples & Guiding Questions:
Examples:
Is a critical part of your story immigration, an unimagined childhood, peer pressure, student mothering? Should you think about your life using feminist or critical race theory? How might the theory of cultural/social capital help you make sense of your job or the career and college degree you want?
Guiding Questions:
1. How did this event construct your perception of your childhood?
2. Reflecting on course discussions what institutions influenced this this event?
3. How did culture/religion influence the manner in which the event unfolded & was later interpreted by you as an adult?
Your paper should be a story/narrative with citations. It is also a complete paper, written with an introduction and conclusion.
Paper should be double spaced, 1inch margins, 12pt Times New Roman font. Stapled. I will take off 5 (out of 20) points for not following these directions.
Use quotations from readings with correct citation “I said something important here” (Last Name 2016:131).
Use notes from class lecture and discussion
by | Dec 15, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
Prior to completing this assignment, read Chapters 7 and 8 in your textbook and read the Piaget’s Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology (Links to an external site.), On Major Developments in Preschoolers’ Imagination (Links to an external site.), and The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5 (Links to an external site.) articles. Also, review the Week 5 Final Project instructions for creating the proposal, and review the videos: Play: A Vygotskian approach (Links to an external site.) and Piaget’s Stages of Development (Links to an external site.).
The purpose of this assignment is for you to continue working on elements that will become part of your Community Center Proposal Final Project. This week you will be creating three activities that address cognitive development in the age groups assigned. These will become part of the infant room, early childhood room, and adolescent room of your center.
Using Piaget’s, Vygotsy’s, and/or Information processing theories of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying activities for the assigned rooms that promotes cognitive development for children and adolescents. The activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of the age group and must be clearly tied to specific theory. You must use at least one credible source. Your activities might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, egocentrism, or conservation for early childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Table 7.1 in your textbook will be useful in completing this activity.
Focus on the primary developmental tasks of each age period. For each of the three activities, write a paragraph that addresses the following:
Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).Identify the specific concept from cognitive development theory that supports the use of this activity.Identify how the activity enhances cognitive development in the specific age group.
Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this assignment and how to build the elements of the rooms in your community center.
Examples of Activities:
Example 1: Cognitive Development Activity for Infant Room: Peekaboo.
One of the activities we will incorporate into the infant room is peekaboo. This is a game where the caregiver hides himself from the child (covering the child’s eyes or hiding behind a chair, etc.) and then appears again by uncovering the child’s eyes or coming out from behind the chair. Another variation of this would be hiding a treasured object under a scarf and then revealing it again. One of the milestones of the first year of life is the development of object permanence. Object permanence occurs when an infant grasps that something (an object, a person) still exists even when the infant cannot see it. This is a concept from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and is one of the developmental tasks of the sensorimotor stage. Newborns do not have a sense of permanence. When they cannot see you, you do not exist for them. During the first year of life, they slowing learn that objects and people continue to exist even with they cannot be seen (Mossler, 2014). Playing peekaboo is one way to foster the development of object permanence. Infants usually delight in seeing someone appear and then hide, only to reappear. This activity will support the cognitive development domain and also the psychosocial domain because of its interactive nature.
Mossler, R. A. (2014). Child and adolescent development (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu/
Example 2: Cognitive Development Activity for Adolescent Room: Board Games Involving Strategy and Problem Solving.
In the adolescent room, we propose having a collection of board games that require logical thinking and problem solving. Adolescence is the beginning of more sophisticated thinking. Children in this age group move from concrete operations to what Piaget calls formal operations. They are becoming capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning (Mossler, 2014). Games like chess, Battleship, and checkers all require players to engage in this kind of thinking. Another game that can be used is the game of Clue. This game supports the development of prepositional logic and requires players to think hypothetically (Neller, Markov, and Russell, 2006). These games will not only promote cognitive development but will further support psychosocial development because of the required interactions.
Mossler, R. A. (2014). Child and adolescent development (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu/
Neller, T. W., Markov, Z., & Russell, I. (2006). Clue deduction: Professor Plum teaches logic. Retrieved from http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/papers/flairs06.pdf
The Cognitive Development Activities paper
Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length
by | Dec 15, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapters 5, 7, 8, 11, and 12, which are the primary chapters in the textbook and provide you with the theoretical foundations for this project. Also review the Exploring Borderlands–American Passages: A Literary Survey (Links to an external site.) video. Many of the other resources in the previous weeks may also be helpful.
Remember that you have already created nine of the required 15 activities for this assignment in Weeks 2, 3, and 4. You received feedback from your instructor and from the Writing Center on those activity papers. You are expected to incorporate that feedback into the nine activities already created. During this last week, you will place those activities in the appropriate room in your proposal and create the remaining six activities.
Focus of the Final Project:
Your community is planning to open a brand-new child development community center. Now that you are an expert in the field, you have been chosen to create a proposal for interactive, fun, and educational programming activities that will be provided for children and adolescents in this center. The chosen activities must be developmentally appropriate and based in theory. You will present your ideas to the city council with a written proposal describing the programming in detail. You have been asked to propose programming for the following five different age groups in the child development community center:
Infant (0-1 year)Toddler (1-3 years)Early Childhood (3-6 years)Middle to Late Childhood (7-12 years)Adolescence (13-18 years)
Use this Community Child Development Center Proposal Template Download Community Child Development Center Proposal Templateto organize your proposal. Enter the requested information on the title page where indicated. Where you find the text, “In this section you will describe the activity …” within the proposal template, please remove that and enter your own content. The headings in bold should not be altered. The final content for each “room” will consist of three paragraphs that will address three distinct activities that address physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development for that age group. Table 5.1 in your textbook will be very useful in identifying the major milestones in physical development.
In your Community Child Proposal,
Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).Identify the specific domain related theory concept that supports the use of this activity.Identify how the activity enhances physical, cognitive, or psychosocial development.
Special Notes:
A good way to brainstorm different age appropriate activities is using Google’s search tool before researching. Please review What Is CRAAP? A Guide to Evaluating Web Sources (Links to an external site.). For example, enter “activities to support cognitive development in toddlers” and numerous sites with suggested activities will be displayed. Remember that your activities may be simple (especially with newborns), but they must also be specific and age appropriate, and you are to connect them to developmental theory within the proposal. You must also cite the sources in your proposal.
While much of the theoretical support for your proposal will come from the textbook, you must include information somewhere in the proposal from three credible or scholarly sources. If you included a source in your Weeks 2, 3, and 4 papers, then you have already met this requirement. Just transfer the source to the final proposal. Remember to cite all your sources (including the textbook) according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center.
The Community Center Proposal
Must be nine to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of projectStudent’s nameCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDate submitted
Must use at least three scholarly or credible sources in addition to the text book. Be sure to integrate your sources (Links to an external site.) rather than simply inserting them.
by | Dec 11, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
1) students will write a formal research paper that is at least 6 full pages not including the Works Cited page. This research paper will use the MLA Style for both formatting and documentation.
2) Include a visual aid such as a picture, graphic, table, chart, etc. in the research paper and give credit to the source of this visual aid. In the six pages this assignment requires, the graphic should take up no more than one-half of one of those pages.
3) The paper needs to have at least 4 outside sources. At least half of the sources you use need to be non-internet.
by | Dec 8, 2021 | Psychology and Education : Child Development
Introduction
This assignment demonstrates how to use the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct with a real –life example.
The Assignment
Read the article- “Ethics Today in Early Care and Education.” You will also need to read and become familiar with the “Code of Ethical Conduct Position Statement” article. After reading these two articles and becoming familiar with their content- you will use the information to complete “Professional Ethics: Applying the NAEYC Code.” Using the attached document you will choose one scenario from group one or two (and include it on your form) and then complete the 4 questions. You will the “Code of Ethical Conduct Position Statement” article to pull ideals and principles that support and guide you in your decision making.
For #1 you will discuss a minimum of 2 points from the “Ethics Today” article
Acceptable length for question #2: at least 2 core values should be chosen and included should be a discussion of why you chose them (minimum of 3 sentences for each core value)
Question #3: once you choose who you are responsible to, include a discussion of why you chose that group (minimum of 3 sentences)
Question #4: choose at least 3 ideals and 3 principles to support your answer. (These should be copied and include the letters and numbers)
Question #5: This is where you discuss how you, as an early childhood educator, will handle/address the situation. Specifics are needed here. Pull your knowledge from this course and the provided articles to assist you. (Minimum of 7 sentences) Specific references from our text or the articles must be included. This can be a page reference, quote,facts from the articles, etc. This should be factual, not opinion based.
Grading Criteria
The summary is graded on a 100 point scale
Maximum points are given when each question meets the requirements; Principles/Ideals are given to support your opinion, and a description of the impact of your decision on the child and family is provided.
Deductions of points are:
20 points: meeting paragraph and sentence requirements
10 points: including relevant information from the “Ethics Today” article.
20 points: including all information on the “Professional Ethics” handout
40 points: providing clear and appropriate decisions, in the implementation paragraph, based on the information from the article and our text.
10 points: use of original document
Points are deducted for errors in grammar and spelling. Also noted is clarity of the submission and students’ comprehension of the content.
Resources
Textbook chapter16
Ethics Today in Early Care and Education article.pdf Ethics Today in Early Care and Education article.pdf – Alternative Formats
Code of Ethical Conduct and Postion Statement article.pdf Code of Ethical Conduct and Postion Statement article.pdf – Alternative Formats
Professional Ethics Applying the NAEYC Code document_1_.rtf
