Contents
Module Objectives:
In this module you will:
- Analyze infant attachment relationships
- Brainstorm how infant teachers can create attachments with infants
- Write your Reflections on Respect Paper
Activity #1: Introduction to Attachment Theory
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:
- What is attachment theory?
- Why is attachment theory important for infant teachers?
- 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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Activity #2: Reflections of Respect Paper
As you write your Reflections on Respect Paper, the following resources may help:
- the Assignment Guidelines (in the ‘About this Class’ menu, in ‘Assignment Guidelines’)
- this Power Point on the Reflections on Respect Paper
- this Chart for Writing your Reflections on Respect Paper can be a guide for writing the paper
- this chart and video to cite sources in APA format; the list of readings for class in APA format can be found in ECE 209-Seminar in the ‘Resources’ menu item, under ‘Resources for class’
Please complete and submit the Reflections on Respect Self-Assessment and submit it, along with your Reflections on Respect Paper on Blackboard for ECE 209-Lecture (in ‘Assignments’ under ‘Reflections on Respect’) to complete the form:
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- Click the hyperlink & open the document
- Save the document to your device by clicking ‘Save As’
- Type the answers to the questions on the document
- Save the document again
- If you cannot save the document on your device, copy the questions below the rubric onto a new document on your device, then answer the questions
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?
