Infant Curriculum: Self Reflection

At Week 16 of the semester you will monitor your progress towards achieving your goals. Your learning, growth and progress towards achieving your goals will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. To monitor your progress towards meeting you goals,  answer the questions below at the end of each module to document your progress over the semester.

  • What did you learn in this week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar that connects to your goals?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from these modules help and support you to meet your goals

Environments Self-Reflection

At Week 16 of the semester you will monitor your progress towards achieving your goals. Your learning, growth and progress towards achieving your goals will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. To monitor your progress towards meeting you goals,  answer the questions below at the end of each module to document your progress over the semester.

  • What did you learn in this week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar that connects to your goals?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from these modules help and support you to meet your goals

Module 14 Environments Activity 3: 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?

Language Development: Self Reflection

At Week 8 and Week 16 of the semester you will monitor your progress towards achieving your goals. Your learning, growth and progress towards achieving your goals will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. To monitor your progress towards meeting you goals,  answer the questions below at the end of each module to document your progress over the semester.

  • What did you learn in this week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar that connects to your goals?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from these modules help and support you to meet your goals?

 

Module 8 Physical Development Activity #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?

Module 8 Physical Development Activity #1: Infant Physical Development

Read Honig (2007) and Pica (2010); complete  this handout as you read

Honig(2007)PD

 

Pica(2010)

Watch the video  Infants: Physical Development (Learning Seed, 2010)  which is located in the BMCC library Kanopy video database (these instructions or this video explains how to access the video) and complete this handout as you watch the video.

Review the CDC developmental milestones for 6 month old child

Watch this video of a 6-month-old baby:

 

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

  1. How is infant physical development connected to brain development?
  2. What are fine motor and gross motor skills that babies 0-18 months demonstrate or master?
  3. What activities and practices can infant teachers do to support babies’ physical development?
  4. What milestones does the baby in the video demonstrate (social and emotional, language/ communication, movement/ physical development, and cognitive)?
  5. How is the 6-month-old baby’s development and abilities different from the 4-month-old baby we watched last module?

 

Infant Learning Self-Reflection

At Week 8 and Week 16 of the semester you will monitor your progress towards achieving your goals. Your learning, growth and progress towards achieving your goals will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. To monitor your progress towards meeting you goals,  answer the questions below at the end of each module to document your progress over the semester.

  • What did you learn in this week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar that connects to your goals?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from these modules help and support you to meet your goals?

 

Module 7 Activity #1: What is Sensory Processing?

Watch this video about our sensory systems.  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video

Read Honig (2005) complete this handout as you read

Honig (2005)

Read Honig (2007) complete this handout as you read

Honig(2007)

Review the developmental milestones for a 4-month-old baby

Watch this video of a 4 month old

Answer the questions below, creating a unique response that includes information from both readings and the video:

    1. Why are the senses and sensory input important for babies?
    2. What are important points infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses when working with babies?
    3. What can infant teachers do to support babies and their sensory processing?
    4. What developmental milestones is this baby demonstrating (social and emotional language/ communication, movement/ physical development, and cognitive)? How?
    5. What sensory information is this baby processing? How?

Reply to 1-2 other comments!

Module 10 Language Development Activity 2: 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?

Module 10 Language Development Activity #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 Gillespie (2019) and Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011), complete this handout as you read

 

Gillespie (2019)

 

Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011)

Review the developmental milestones for a 1-year-old baby

Watch this video of a 1-year-old-baby (in the red shirt)

Answer the questions below, creating a unique response that includes evidence from each video and each of the articles  in the your response:

    1. How are the following connected to a baby learning language:
      1. relationship-based practices (the 3 R’s & attachment)
      2. individualized routines
      3. a family’s culture
    2. Which theory of language development do you believe? Why?  Based on that theory, explain how the babies learn the 4 cornerstones of language.
    3. Thinking about your response to questions # 1 and #2, what can  infant teachers do to support baby’s language development? List specific practices that no one has mentioned yet!
    4. What cognitive, social/emotional, physical/ motor, and language/ communication developmental milestones does the 1-year-old baby (in red short) in the video demonstrate? How?
    5. Specifically, how is this baby’s cognitive, social/emotional, physical/motor, and language/communication development different from the 9-month-old baby we observed in module 9?