Social science - Human Growth Development
Instructions Week 8 EC Daycare Letter Assignment: Why play is important 20pts Due: Thursday 10.7 @ 11pm You are the director of a mid-sized childcare center that specializes in the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of children ages 2-5yrs old. Your curriculum combines a rich learning environment with art, music, academics, play and imagination. Recently, Ms. Jamison toured your center and is considering enrolling her children, Angela age 2.5yrs, and Brently age 4yrs, in your program. While Ms. Jamison liked the openness and organization of the children’s room, and she was impressed with the staff’s knowledge of development, she was concerned because she saw children playing inside in unstructured activities and outside (free play) and not working on worksheets or activities that she believes promote the academic skills that her children need to succeed in school. She was also concerned by the mixed-age rooms and groups. As the director, you will respond to Ms. Jamison’s concerns in a letter addressed to her. You will explain why and how play (provide examples) promotes healthy development including resilience, self-directed curiosity, and attention. Also discuss how play helps develop the cognitive and social and emotional skills necessary for success in school. **This means that you will really have to think about how kids in these age groups play and why they play the way that they do and what they play with. Make sure you are using connections to relevant theories and concepts from the chapter and power points. ** If you are not familiar with what a childcare center room looks like and includes please either do a Google search or a YouTube search to get an idea. Do not use the mission statements from established childcares or the content from educational videos as part of your reply to Ms. Jamison. Your letter must contain your ideas supported by concepts from this course. You must tie your statements to specific concepts, models, or theories from the course. (Vygotsky, Piaget, Kohlberg, Sternberg, Erikson, brain development, etc.) Your letter is to be no less than one full page single spaced. Use as many theories, models, and concepts as you can to support your position to Ms. Jamison. Remember, you are trying to educate her on your curriculum and philosophy as well as enroll her children in your program. Your letter should be friendly and professional. Each model, theory, or concept you use must be bolded in your letter. You do not need to provide citations unless you use sources that are not provided in the course. Sign your letter, Sincerely, (your name) 1 LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT A Psychological Perspective Second Edition By Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French 2 Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective Second Edition By Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French (Published 2019) This Open Education Resource (OER) textbook was funded by a grant from the College of Lake County Foundation and supported by the Business and Social Sciences Division. This textbook can be found at: http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf Publication is under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 unported license to view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Lifespan Development Chapter 2: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth Chapter 3: Infancy and Toddlerhood Chapter 4: Early Childhood Chapter 5: Middle and Late Childhood Chapter 6: Adolescence Chapter 7: Emerging and Early Adulthood Chapter 8: Middle Adulthood Chapter 9: Late Adulthood Chapter 10: Death and Dying 4 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Lifespan Development ....................................................................................... 9 Lifespan Perspective ............................................................................................................................. 10 Conceptions of Age ............................................................................................................................... 13 Periods of Development......................................................................................................................... 14 Issues in Lifespan Development ............................................................................................................. 16 Historical Theories on Development ....................................................................................................... 17 Contemporary Theories on Development ................................................................................................ 18 Descriptive Research ............................................................................................................................. 24 Correlational Research .......................................................................................................................... 26 Experimental Research .......................................................................................................................... 28 Research Involving Time-Spans .............................................................