Development

by


Required Readings:

 

Please do separate references for each assignment.

Assignment 1

4 pages

Directions:

Observation

For this assignment, you will observe a particular child or children at play. You are there to take notes about what you see.  Write down conversations the children have, what they do, how they interact, the setting in which they are playing and what toys or equipment they are using.  Your paper will not include your thoughts about why a child said or did something.  You will be applying theory to the conversations, noting where particular theorists may place these children in developmental stages (ex. Erikson, Piaget, Kohlberg if you’ve read him).

Research

Make sure you have read the Hassinger-Das, et al., 2017 article, Case of Brain Science and Guided Play: A Developing Story. Read it and notice the citations.  If there is a citation that appeals to you and seems to relate to and support what you saw in your observation, or a theory you feel strongly about, then find this article, read it, and apply it in your paper.   You can also browse the NAEYC site, where this article is from for other articles and references.

 

 

Paper – Part I – please do age 8 at home observation

After you complete your observation, write up the observation and include the following information in your narrative:  age of the child or children; location; discuss what the children were doing in a chronological manner that includes pertinent conversation and behaviors.

Paper – Part II

For Part II consider what you observed and how the activity supported (or not) language development, experiences, vocabulary, and/or social skills.  How did the activity contribute to human learning? Within this section, you can incorporate your texts, but must include the Hassinger-Das et al., (2017) article plus one more article (not used in this course) that you found.  You are to write your opinions about what you saw in the observation and support them with theory and research.

Each paper should have a brief introduction, conclusion, and as with all papers, APA formatted in-line citations, and a reference list also in APA format.

 

 

 

Assignment  2

1 ½ pages

Please address the following using your readings and videos to support your statements:

How does play:

  • support learning?
  • support language development?
  • support vocabulary development?
  • give children experiences they may otherwise not have?
  • apply to Erikson’s stages?