In this module you will:
- Analyze the social-emotional development skills of a baby 0-18 months
- Identify your temperament type and how it impacted you
- Work on your Play Materials Zine
Category: Module 5
Module 6 Language Development Assignment #1 Infant Language Development
Watch these 3 videos:
Promoting Language and Literacy: Infant and Toddler Care (2003, Learning Seed) from the BMCC library video database Kanopy (here are directions and a video on how to access the video). Complete this handout as you watch the video.
Linguistic Genius of Babies TED Talk: Patricia Kuhl (2011); complete this handout as you watch the video
Theories of Language Development (2013, Khan Academy); complete this handout as you watch the video
Read these 2 articles
Gillespie (2019)
Gillespie (2019)Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011)
Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011)Review this Power Point (I narrate this Power Point in this video)
Your best friend heard about a web-based video series that claims that babies who watch the videos improve their language skills. The web-based videos are expensive, but your friend wants to do all she can to promote her child’s language development. She asks for opinion if she should buy the videos. Using evidence from each video, both articles, and the Power Point in this activity, explain to your friend:
- Should purchase the web-videos to support her language development? Why?
- Which theory of language development do you believe? Why?
- What else can she and infant teachers do to support her baby’s language development? For each idea you mention, explain how it specifically supports language development and communication skills. List ideas no one has mentioned yet!
Module 5 Social-Emotional Development Assignment#1: Infant Social-Emotional Development (9/21-9/27)
Watch the video Infants: Social-Emotional Development (2010) The video is found on the BMCC’s library Kanopy video database (follow these directions or watch this video to access the video) I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.
Read
Elliott & Gonzalez-Mena (2011)
Review this Power Point — I narrate the Power Power in this video
Review Social-Emotional Milestones
This assignment has 2 parts:
Part 1: Apply what you have learned about social-emotional development to the child in this video (material from the 3 readings, skills & processes, milestones, etc.).
Part 2: Your best friend just had her first family-teacher conference for her baby. The teachers commented on the baby’s social-emotional development. Your friend comes to you and confesses that she doesn’t understand how babies can develop socially or emotionally – they are just babies. Cite extensive evidence from each of the readings, Power Point and video to explain to your friend:
- What are the aspects of a baby’s social development? What are the aspects of a baby’s emotional development?
- What can babies do socially and emotionally?
- What should infant teachers do to support a baby’s social-emotional development?
Module 5 Social-Emotional Development Assignment #2: Temperament (9/21-9/27)
Watch this video, I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video
Review this PowerPoint — I narrate the Power Point in this video
Answer the questions on this handout to determine your temperament type then answer the question below:
- For each of the 9 temperament traits, where did you put your initials?
- What is your temperament type?
- What do you wish your family or teachers knew about your temperament type when you were a child? Why?
Module 5 Social-Emotional Development Assignment #3: Play Materials Zine (9/21-9/27)
Welcome to the Play Materials Zine!
What will I do? I will:
- Send an email to you group:
- Informing you of your assigned color
- Letting you know which group you are in
- Identifying who the other members of your group are
- Add you to your group’s Google folder
- Add you to the Play Materials Zine
What should you do? You should:
- Contact your group members – use OpenLab, the ECE 209 Remind app, or email to reach other members
- Decide
- What play material will you focus on for your article?
- Are you adding information on to the worksheet in the Google folder, creating Zine pages later?
- Creating Google docs that you will convert to PDF’s and will to the zine?
- Adding content directly to the zine pages?
- Begin to complete the work assigned to your role!
- Each week your role will change — look in your Google folder for the document that corresponds to the module to see your color & role
Module 5 Social-Emotional Development Assignment #4: Initial Contact with the Family of an Infant Report (9/21-9/27)
After identifying the family you plan to interview for your Infant/ Family Case Study, contact them, introduce, explain, and ask using the guidelines from Module 4. After you have found a family to work with, complete the Initial Contact with the Family of an Infant Report and submit it on Blackboard (in course menu under “Assignments”).
Blackboard does not accept Google Documents.
Module 5 Social-Emotional Development Assignment #5: Self-Reflection (9/21-9/27)
At the end of the semester you will help to determine your grade for ECE 209 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 week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar?
- Information/ knowledge
- Skills
- Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
- How will the material from these modules better prepare you to work with infants?
