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Module Objectives
In this module you will:
- Identify how infant teachers can support infant language development & communication skills
- Continue developing your play materials zine article
- Interview the family of an infant
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!
CLICK HERE TO POST YOUR ANSWERS
Assignment #2: Play Materials Zine
Congratulations on entering week 2 of working on your Play Materials zine article. By now you should have:
- Chosen the play material your group will focus on for this project
- Worked on the Google Doc for the Module 5: Social-Emotional Development in your group’s Google folder based on your role/ assigned color
What should you do now?
- Look in your group’s Google folder and find the Module 6 Google document.
- See what your role is for this module (your role is assigned by color)
- Complete the tasks assigned to your role
- Entering material in the Google Doc for Module 6, based on your role
- You will use the info from the Google Docs to write your group’s Play Materials zine article
- As always, reach out if your have any questions!
Assignment #3: Interviewing the Family of an Infant
It is time to interview your Infant/ Family Case Study family, in preparation for writing your Interview with a Family of an Infant Paper
What should you do?
- Review this Power Point I narrate the Power Point in this video
- Set-up a time to interview the family.
- The interview must be virtual — by phone, FaceTime, Skype, What’s App, Zoom. Google Hang Out.
- What can you do to make the family feel at ease during your interview?
- Ask the family all of these questions
- During the interview, listen, ask questions, observe, and take notes
- As students, during the interview DO NOT give advice, offer praise, provide feedback, share your opinions, or record the interview — please contact me if you have questions about this
- Take detailed notes on the family’s responses
Assignment #4: Self-Reflection
At the end of the semester you will develop a Self-Assessment of what you have learned which will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. 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 the 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 module better prepare you to work with infants?
