Module 9: Infant Cognitive Development (3/26-4/8)

Contents

Module Objectives

In this module you will:

  1. Brainstorm how infant teachers can support a baby’s (0-18 months old) cognitive development
  2. Analyze the development of a 9-month-old baby
  3. Write an Observation of an Infant Paper that is objective and detailed

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)

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.

 

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

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Activity #2: Observation of an Infant Paper

In module 8, you observed an infant.

Now it’s time to write your Observation of an Infant Paper.  Below are resources that should help you write your paper.

Observation of an Infant Paper Guidelines

Guidelines for Observation & Paper S2021

Observation of an Infant Paper Power Point

Chart for Writing your Observation of an Infant Paper

Observation of Infant Chart

Sample Paper – the video was different and the paper may have been structured slightly different

Sample Observation Infant 2

After you finish writing your paper, please complete the Observation of an Infant Paper Self-Assessment and submit it along with your Observation of an Infant Paper

Observation of Infant Paper Self-Assessment

Activity #3: Self-Assessment

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?

CLICK HERE TO POST YOUR SELF-REFLECTION