Author: Jen Longley

Module 3 Relationship-Based Practices Activity #1: Introduction to Relationship-Based Practices

Read Cheshire (2007) and Christie (2018) complete this handout as you read

Cheshire (2007)

 

Christie (2018)

Answer the questions below:

    1. Why are the 3-R’s important when working with infants? Reference both Cheshire (2007), Christie (2018) in your response.
    2. How can infant teachers use the 3-R’s when working with babies? Describe specific practices and behaviors teachers should use with babies.  Reference both the Cheshire (2007) and Christie (2018) article in your response.  Use examples that no one has shared yet!

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Module 4 Attachment Activity #1: Introduction to Attachment

Read Gillespie & Hunter (2011), complete this handout as you read

Gilespie & Hunter(2011)

Read Post, Hohmann & Epstein (2011), complete this handout as you read

Post, Hohmann & Epstein (2011)

Read Snyder (2011), complete this handout as you read

Snyder (2011)

Watch  Attachment Theory: Understanding the Essential Bond video.  Complete this handout as your watch the video

Watch the video How Babies Form Attachments, complete this handout as you watch the video.

Watch Children’s Attachment and the Strange Situation Test, complete this handout as you watch the video

Answer the following questions, citing information from the readings and videos in your responses:

  1. What is attachment theory?
  2. Why is attachment theory important for infant teachers?
  3. What should infant teachers do to create attachments with babies in their classrooms?  List practices that have not yet been mentioned!

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Module 4 Attachments Activity #3: Self-Reflection

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?

Module 5 Teaching Infants Activity #1: Being an Infant Teacher

 

Watch Quality of Infant Care: Investing in Relationships, complete this handout as you watch the video.  The video is located in BMCC’s Library Academic Video Online: Premier database, follow these instructions or this video to access the video.

Read Barbre (2013), complete this handout as you read

Barbre (2013) chap 1

Read Responsive Caregiving (2016), complete this handout as you read

Responsive Caregiving (2016)

Answer the questions below, cite specific evidence from both readings and video:

  1. What does an infant teacher do?  Include specific evidence from both readings and the video.
  2. Why do you want to be an infant teacher? Make specific connections to both readings & the video.
  3. What skills and qualities do you have that will make you a good infant teacher? Make specific connections to both readings & video.

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Module 5 Teaching Infants Activity #2: Self-Reflection

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?

Module 7 Activity #2: Theorists

Watch the videos about  Piaget .  Complete this handout as you watch the Piaget video.  

Watch this video about Vygotsky. Complete this handout as you watch the Vygotsky video.

Answer the questions below creating a unique response that includes information form both video:

  1. What is Piaget’s theory of development and learning?
    1. How does Piaget believe children learn?
    2. What does Piaget believe infants 0-18 months learn & do?
  2. What is Vygotsky’s theory of development and learning?
    1. How does Vygotsky believe children learn?
    2. What does  Vygotsky believe infants 0-18 months learn & do?
  3. Which theorist do you most connect with or think best describes how infants develop and learn? Why?

Module 9 Cognitive Development Activity #3: Development of a 9-month-old Baby

Review the developmental milestones for a 9-month-old baby: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/milestones-9mo.html

Watch this video of a 9-month-old baby.

Answer the questions below:

  1. What milestones is this baby demonstrating in the video (social and emotional, language/ communication, movement/ physical development, and cognitive)?
  2. How is this baby’s development & abilities different from the six-month-old we watched last module?

 

 

 

 

 

Module 2 Overview of Development Activity #1: Review of Developmental Domains

Watch the video below (stop at the 11:00 minute mark), complete this handout as you watch the video

Answer the questions below:

  1. What is the difference between:
    1. growth different from development?
    2. developmental milestones and  age level expectations/ norms?
  2. How does brain development impact learning?
  3.  Identify at least 1 toy (from the document below) that support a baby’s (0-18 months) development each in the following domains for a baby 0-18 months & explain how an infant teacher would use the toy to support the baby development for that domain.
    1. Social development
    2. Emotional development
    3. Cognitive development
    4. Language development & communication skills
    5. Fine motor development
    6. Gross motor development
    7. Create unique in your responses

Baby Toys

Module 9 Activity #1 Overview of Infant Cognitive Development

Watch the Infants: Cognitive Development (2010, Learning Seed) video.  The video is housed in the BMCC library Kanopy video database.  Follow these directions or use this video to access the video.  Complete this handout as you watch the video.

Watch Discoveries in Infancy: Cognitive Development & Learning (Far West Laboratory, 1991). Complete this handout while watching the video.

Read Peterson (2012). Complete this handout as you read the article.

Peterson (2012)

Using information from the videos and reading, answer the questions below:

  1. Using information from the videos and reading, what are important cognitive skills babies 0 to 18 months  develop?
  2. How can infant teachers support babies’ cognitive development? List practices that no one has mentioned yet.

Module 9 Infant Cognitive Development Activity #4: Self-Reflection

At the end of the semester you will 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 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 infants?