Category Archives: Module 7

Module 7 Assignment #1: Introduction to Play (6/15-6/17)

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Read Smith & Pelligrini (2013)

Smith & Pellifrini (2013)

Watch Importance of Play (I suggest completing this handout while watching this video)

Watch Power of Play (I suggest completing this handout while watching the video)

Watch theese 2 Social Stages of Play videos (I suggest completing this chart while watching the videos):

Review Types of Play handout

After reading, watching the videos and reviewing the handout, answer the following questions:

  1. Why is play important in early childhood?
  2. What do children learn through play?
  3. How can teachers support play for :
    1. Infants toddlers?
    2. Preschool age children?
    3. Young school age children?
  4. What are the stages of play?
  5. What happens at each stage?
  6. What are the types of play?
  7. Explain what children do in each type of play.
  8. What would you say to a new staff member who was recently started working with you and expressed concern that all the children did was play all day and they were not learning.

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?

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Video #4:

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

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Module 7 Assignment #3: Temperament (6/15-6/17)

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Read Allard & Hunter (2011)

Watch this Video (I suggest completing this handout while watching the video)

Complete the Identifying Temperament handout

Answer the questions below:

  1. What is temperament?
  2. Why is it important for early childhood educators to know a child’s temperament type?
  3. How are the temperament types different?
  4. How can teachers support children with temperament types that are:
    1. Easy-going/ flexible
    2. Active/ Always-on-the-Go/ Feisty
    3. Cautious/ Slow-to-Warm-Up/ Quiet/ Fearful
  5. What is your temperament type?  Where did you put your initials for each of the 9 temperament traits (right, center, left, between the right & center, between the left & center)?
  6. What did you learn about yourself completing the handout?
  7. What do you wish your teachers knew about your temperament when you were young?

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Module 7 Assignment #4: Self-Reflection (6/15-6/17)

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At the end of the semester you will determine your grade for ECE 110 based on your self-assessment of what you have learned. In preparation for your self-assessment, answer the questions below; you will answer these questions at the end of each module so you have a record of what you have learned over the semester. You can answer the questions here on Open Lab or create a journal on Blackboard (which would be private).

  • What did you learn in this module?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from this module better prepare you to work with young children?