Early childhood education

I implemented this block plan with a 3 year old girl at Lincoln Circle Center for my class EDU 145. I chose the block plan because I believed these activities promoted the child interest and awareness of shapes by providing experiences with matching, grouping and identifying different shapes. It also encouraged her to learning shapes in many ways. Through this plan, I assisted the child in building different shaped tunnels with large blocks and pieces of cardboard. Then asked her to sit or…

inclusionary practices and inclusion for children with disabilities and their families within an early childhood education environment. Two of the research articles used are from New Zealand, one from Taiwan and one from Spain, they range from 2009 until present day. This literature review explains the importance of including children with disabilities and their families within mainstream early childhood settings. It then addresses effective teaching strategies which include and excludes…

In Richard Lavoies the Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning on the tuned-out child proves techniques and strategies based on six possible motivational styles that will revolutionize the way parents and teachers inspire kids with learning disabilities to succeed and achieve. It promotes better communication, improvement through goals, and respect of the student. It provides an idea rather than the reward system. I think the value of this book lies in teaching people that what motivates…

With this, you could refer to the early stage of social awareness and imagination at the age of 5 and 6 (Miller, Church, and Poole). This takes place after a child is able to recognize themselves, so that they may imagine others. It happens at the age of 5 and 6 because researcher Susan…

Introduction: How Children Succed p.xiii&xv In this introduction I was surprised on how they are having three year olds filling out worksheets and completing drills on letter and number recognition (Tough, 2013, p.xiii). I did notice when my son went to transitional kindergarten that what was expected from him was what a kindergarten back then would be learning. When he went to kindergarten he was expected to know more than what I remember was required before. Many things have changed since I…

E.B. White’s children’s novel Charlotte’s Web encapsulates a trifecta of distinctive features. The bildungsroman work accomplishes the tasks of telling a great story, educating the young, and catering to the moral, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs of children, from within the story and out. White captures appropriate progression and maturation, especially through the protagonists Wilbur and Fern. To Love and To Be Loved A child’s need for love is based on security and it is…

Jonathan Luke U. Tanlim 11528400 NTROPSY- Reflection Paper Family, friends, and the social environment influence children, at an early age. And, as some of us may know, children often absorb what they are taught or what they are exposed to because at that stage of their development their brains are like sponges. Just soaking up as much information as it can. And these influences affect the child’s behavior. Making the child subconsciously or consciously adapt and reshape the way he/ she acts/…

“With the new day comes new strengths and new thoughts,”- Eleanor Roosevelt. UNICEF is in need for a spokesperson. UNICEF needs someone who is persuasive, kind, compassionate, empathetic, knowledgeable, hardworking, supports education, supports gender equality, supports racial equality, and has experience with children. Eleanor Roosevelt has all these traits. Mostly Eleanor is empathetic, compassionate, and knowledgeable. She would be able to relate to those around her, support and care for…

The First Egg By Laura Vaccaro Seeger; illus. by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Intermediate Roaring Book Press 27pp 2007 978-1-59643-272-7 $14.95 Introducing the concept of growth and development at a young age may be hard to achieve, however this book incorporates imaginative design of the illustrations along with the simple text which walks children through each step of change throughout nature. Seeger explores the stages of growth of the things around us and how a story grows in a…

correlation with the hearing threshold results that can be obtained and there behavioural thresholds. Professor Jan Wouters discussed the process of auditory processing and what it means for speech and language development, for example, what early hearing screenings can mean for language development. In the last ten to twenty years a lot of interest has come about on the topic of auditory discrimination tasks specific to new borns and young children alike, for example the need for neo-…