Author Archives: Jen Longley

Module 1 Assignment #1: Introductions (5/26-5/27)

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Go to FlipGrid  (log onto Flip-Grip using your BMCC email) to upload a video introducing yourself by answering the following questions:

    1. What is your preferred name and preferred pronouns?
    2. Share what you would you like us to know about you.
    3. Why are you taking ECE 110 this summer?
    4. What goals do you have for ECE 110? What do you hope to learn?
    5. What are you most looking forward to in ECE 110?
    6. What are you most worried or concerned about for ECE 110?

Reply to 2 videos on Flip Grid by clicking the conversation bubbles at the bottom of the video.

IF YOU CANNOT ACCESS FLIPGRID, PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS & REPLY TO 2 COMMENTS!

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Module 4 Post #1: Overview of Language Development (6/4-6/7)

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Read VLS (2013) Language

Watch the video The Developing Child: Language Development which is found in BMCC’s library, in the Academic Online Video: Premium video database; follow these directions  and/ or these video instructions to locate the video.  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.  https://search-alexanderstreet-com.lib2.bmcc.cuny.edu/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C1780215

Watch the video Nourishing Language Development which is found in BMCC’s library, in the Kanopy video database; follow these directions and/ or these video with instructions to access the video.  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.  https://bmcccuny.kanopy.com/video/nourishing-language-development-early-childhood

Read Theories of Language Development

After watching the videos and completing the reading, answer the question below in your own words:

  1. What is language?
  2. What are the areas and components of language?
  3. How do children learn language, in all forms?
  4. Which theory — or theories — of language development do you feel most connected to?
    1. Why?
    2. Based on that theory, how would you support young children’s language development?
  5. How can teachers support young children to develop all forms of language, for:
    1. infants/ toddlers (identify at least 3 ways),
    2. preschool age children (identify at least 3 ways)
    3. young school age children (identify at least 3 ways)

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Module 2 Assignment #1: Introduction to Child Growth & Development (5/28-5/31)

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ReichShapiro (2018) 1-5

After watching the video (I suggest completing this handout while watching the video) and reading Reich-Shapiro (2018), answer the following questions in your own words:

  1. What is growth and development?
  2. What affects development, including ecological and contextual factors?
  3. What’s the difference between developmental milestones and the sequence of development?
  4. How does learning connect to the brain/ neural development?
  5. What is the difference between typical and atypical development?
  6. What are the stages of child development?

Module 6 Assignment 2: Identifying Social-Emotional Development (6/11-6/14)

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Review this Power Point.  This video explains the Power Point.

Read Social-Emotional Skills & Processes

Read Social-Emotional Milestones

Watch the videos below.  For each video, answer the following questions:

  1. What social-emotional skills and processes is the child/ren demonstrating? How?
  2. What social-emotional milestones has the child/ren mastered for their age?

Video #1: (~4-5 year old)

https://www.cde.state.co.us/resultsmatter/alexhannahandfaithhaveateaparty

Video #2: (~3-4 year old)

Video #3: (~9 months old)

Video #4: (Kindergarten to 2nd grade)

Video #5: (20 months old)

Module 5 Assignment #2: Self-Help Skills (6/8-6/10)

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  1. How are the techniques you identified in module #1 to be successful in an on-line class working? What changes do you need to make to ensure you are successful in ECE 110?
  2. Review the Power Point.
  3. Pick 1 age group [infant- toddlers (0-36 months), preschool age children (3-5 years old), or young school age children (kindergarten to 2nd grade)] and pick 1 self- help skill (eating, grooming, hygiene, or daily chores). What can children in the age group you selected do in the self-help skill you picked?  For example, if you picked YOUNG SCHOOL AGE and DRESSING, describe what abilities young school age children have in regards to dressing themselves.  What can the children do independently? What might they need help with?
  4. To teach self-help skills we break down the skill into smaller, manageable parts. Think of a self-help skill you do every day. What are the steps you take to complete self-help-skill?  List the steps – be specific and descriptive as possible! (see example below)
    1. Pick up your toothbrush.
    2. Turn on the water faucet.
    3. Rinse your toothbrush.
    4. Pick up your toothpaste.
    5. Open the toothpaste.
    6. Squeeze out some toothpaste onto the toothbrush head.
    7. Brush your teeth
    8. Spit.
    9. Turn on the water faucet.
    10. Rinse the toothbrush.
    11. Place the toothbrush back in its holder.
    12. Pick up a cup.
    13. Fill the cup with water.
    14. Rinse your mouth with water.
    15. Spit out the water.

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Module 9 Assignment #2: Families (6/22-6/24)

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Read Morrison, Storey & Zhang (2010)

Morrison, Storey & Zhang (2015)

Complete the handout while watching the video below:

Answer the questions below:

  1. Why should families be involved early childhood programs?
  2. How might families feel when leaving their child in a center?
  3. What could be prohibiting families from being involved in early childhood programs?
  4. What should teachers do to include families in early childhood programs?
  5. What did your school(s) do to include your family?  Was it successful? Why?
  6. What could your school(s) have done differently to include  your family?

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Module 8 Assignment #2: Identifying Cognitive Development (6/18-6/21)

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Review the Cognitive Skills and Processes Power Point.  Here is the video that accompanies the Power Point

Read Cognitive Milestones

Watch the videos below.  For each video answer the following questions:

  1. What cognitive skills and process does the child demonstrate? How?
  2. What cognitive milestones foes the child demonstrate? How?
  3. What Piagetian stage of cognitive is the child/ children in? How does the child/ren’s behavior demonstrate they are in that stage?
  4. What evidence of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory do you see? How?

Video #1 (4 year olds) stop at 2:00 minute mark

Video #2: (~3-4 year olds)

Video #3: (~15 months)

 

Module 7 Assignment #2: Identifying Play (6/15-6/17)

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Watch the videos below.  For each video, answer the following questions:

  1. What types of play do you see in the video? What evidence from the video supports your answer?
  2. What stages of play do you observe in the video? What evidence from the video supports your answer?

Video #1:

Video #2:

Video #3:

Video #4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdOwvZwiYwk

Video #5:

Video #6:

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Module #3 Post #2: Identifying Physical Development (6/1-6/3)

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Review this Power Point.  This video explains the Power Point

Watch the videos below.  For each video, identify the:

  1. Gross motor skills & processes the child demonstrated and how they demonstrate those skills & processes
  2. Fine motor skills & processes the child demonstrated and how they demonstrated those skills & processes
  3. Gross motor milestones the child has achieved for their age
  4. Fine motor milestones the child has achieved for their age

Video #1 (under 6 mos):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQYvAD19CA

Video #2 (~ 3 years old):

Video #3 (~4 years old):

Video #4 (12 months old):

Video #5 (under 6 mos):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8qLxqjvDA

Video #6 (~4 years old):

https://www.draccess.org/videolibrary/

  • Click on the menu item Practice Clips: Preschool
  • Scroll to video “Cody on the Playground”

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Module 2 Assignment #2: Prenatal Development (5/28-5/31)

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Maternal-Stress-Issue-Brief-January2015

Watch the video What Babies Learn Before They are Born (I suggest completing this handout while watching the video) and read March of Dimes (2015).  Use information from the video and the reading to answer the questions below:

  1. Why is the prenatal period important?
  2. Considering everyone has experienced trauma and stress during the COVID-19 crisis, what impact could the COVID-19 crisis have on a fetus in the germinal stage, embryonic, and fetal stages of prenatal development?
  3. What “biological postcards from the world outside” might a fetus in New York City be receiving during the COVID-19 crisis?
  4. Considering everyone has experienced trauma and stress during the COVID-19 crisis, what impact could the COVID-19 crisis have on a baby born right after the pandemic ends (their mother was pregnant during the COVID-19 crisis)?
  5. Considering everyone has experienced trauma and stress during the COVID-19 crisis, what impact could the COVID-19 crisis have on a adult (imagine the year is 2040) who was born right after the pandemic ended (their mother was pregnant during the COVID-19 crisis)?
  6. Thinking about what you know about prenatal development, what advise would you give to a family member who is pregnant during the COVID-19 crisis?

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