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?
After completing the modules in ECE 209 Lecture and Seminar I learned how infant teachers can support infant language and communication skills, the different theories of language acquisition and the influence of culture in infant-toddler child care settings. While reading the “Kovach & Da Rosvoseles (2011) article I gained insight on why it’s important to demonstrate and model to other adults how important it is to acknowledge and include babies in conversations , more effective approaches to communicating with children which will convey a personal , respectful and response message to them. This material will now allow me to think about babies likes and dislikes when communicating with them.
In this material I learned about theory of language, communication with babies and appropriate questions for a family interview. I learned from the reading how important is it to values and understanding people’s culture and background also ways to embrace them and make them feel comfortable. I also learned about respectful ways to communicate and approach babies. This article will definitely help me in my future because I gained a lot of information that I’m going to apply them.
In this module, I learned the importance of language and communication with infants. Although they’re babies, its important to speak to them in a soft tone and to let them know what it is you plan on doing before you do it.
After completing this week’s modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar I learned that it is important for babies to know what is happening next reduce anxiety. Also when an adult acknowledges and speaks directly to a baby by name tells the baby she is respected as an individual, which connect to one of my goals treat all babies with respect.
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