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2. ECE 353 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 1 Theories And Theoretical Frameworks (Piagetian Theory/Nativist Approaches) ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 2 Genetic And Biological Factors ECE 353 Week 2 Assignment How The Brain Learns

3. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 1 Theories And Theoretical Frameworks (Piagetian Theory/Nativist Approaches) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Theories and Theoretical Frameworks. As an early childhood professional, it is expected you will understand and apply foundational knowledge and theories in the field. Foundational knowledge and theoretical understanding provides a framework for you to utilize when you are working with infants, toddlers, and school-aged children. Additionally, your understanding of the foundational knowledge and theories will inform and shape your professional practices. For this discussion you will start

4. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 2 Genetic And Biological Factors For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Genetic and Biological Factors. Genetic, biological, and environmental factors are known to a have significant impact on the development of all children, including children with attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, dyslexia, and

5. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in Children's Thinking For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Important Questions in Children’s Thinking. Chapter One of your text identifies the six most important questions in the study of children’s thinking: § Are some capabilities innate? § Does development progress through stages? § How does change occur? § How do individuals differ?

6. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2 Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing. Daniel, an eight-year-old child from a poor, inner-city neighborhood, is given a traditional IQ test. One section of the IQ test involves defining various words. “Yacht” is one of the words that Daniel is asked to

7. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 1 The Piagetian Model For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com The Piagetian Model. There is little argument that while not perfect, Piaget’s theories have had a profound impact on the field of cognitive development. Provide an analysis of his model as well as the challenges to it. In a two- to three-page paper, please include the following components: § Define the four main stages of Piaget’s theory, along with their age ranges

8. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 2 Assignment How The Brain Learns For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com How the Brain Learns. In Chapters 3 and 4 of your primary text, Farrar and Montgomery discuss executive functioning and memory development (2015), you learned about factors that influence brain development. For this assignment, you will build upon that knowledge by further investigating how the brain learns. Remember that working memory, attention, and executive functions are interconnected and are crucial to the learning process. This includes the ability for a child to pay attention,

9. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 2 Discussions 1 Brain Development For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com now widely accepted that a child’s environment and early life experiences affect the development, health, and structure of their brain. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the brain is its ability to change structurally and functionally in response to external stimuli, which is known as neuroplasticity. Watch the video Neuroplasticity to learn more about this concept (Sentis, 2012). Additionally, it is now believed that positive and stimulating environments promote healthy brain development.

10. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1 Cultural Tools For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Cultural Tools. Cultural tools shape cognitive development and can include both technical tools, which act on the environment, and psychological tools, which are tools for thinking. Discuss Vygotsky’s belief that language is the most significant of the cultural tools. Do you agree or disagree? Examine the given images of other psychological tools. Choose one of the given tools and discuss how that tool may influence cognitive development from the perspective of the sociocultural theories. What do

11. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational Innovations For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Educational Innovations. Many educational innovations, such as dynamic assessment and FCL (Fostering Communities of Learners) classrooms, have incorporated insights about learning and development from the sociocultural theories. Choose either dynamic assessment or FCL. Define your choice, and discuss how it incorporates insights about learning and development from the sociocultural theories. Develop one activity that effectively illustrates your chosen educational innovation in practice.

12. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 Assignment Role Of Families And The Community For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Role of Families and the Community [CLOs: 4]. Due by Day 7. One responsibility of professionals when working with children is offering support for families by sharing information with them about developmentally appropriate strategies for their children and the availability of resources in their community. Recall that during Week Two you developed a flyer that taught the families that you work with about the role of working memory, attention, and executive function in learning and

13. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 Assignment Role Of Families And The Community For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Role of Families and the Community [CLOs: 4]. Due by Day 7. One responsibility of professionals when working with children is offering support for families by sharing information with them about developmentally appropriate strategies for their children and the availability of resources in their community. Recall that during Week Two you developed a flyer that taught the families that you work with about the role of working memory, attention, and executive function in learning and

14. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 Discussions 2 Theory Of Mind For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Theory of Mind. Theory of Mind is a theory of psychological and developmental roots that is defined by the ability of a child to attribute mental states such as beliefs, feelings, knowledge, thoughts, intents to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs and feelings that are different than one’s own. The diagram below represents the five foundational components of theory of mind that emerge between ages 2 and 5 that were shared in Chapter 6 of our course text,Cognitive development of children: Research and application. Understanding this developmental sequence is critical in being able to support children as they grow and develop cognitively.

15. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological Acquisition For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Phonological Acquisition. Watch the talk by Patricia Kuhl, entitled The Linguistic Genius of Babies. How do her findings support language acquisition in regard to phonology as it is described in Chapter Six of your text? Include a discussion of the need for a social context when developing phonological awareness and why. How did your own social context impact your phonological awareness?

16. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory Facilitation For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Memory Facilitation. Older children typically remember more than younger children. Identify and describe two strategies that older children use to facilitate their memories. Reflecting on your own personal experiences, what strategies do you employ to improve your memory? Discuss the relevance of strategies that facilitate memory within the context of classroom instruction. Share one instructional strategy that you feel is highly effective for most students.

17. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom Practices For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Connecting to Classroom Practices. In a one- to two-page journal entry, write a self-reflection. What is the relevance of this course to best practices in the classroom? In other words, how can an understanding of how children think improve your teaching skills, particularly in terms of differentiating student needs and abilities? Do you feel that you currently utilize an understanding of cognitive development in your own teaching? Your journal is an informal, reflective piece that does not require citations or APA format; however, if you choose to use resources, please cite them appropriately.

18. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 4 Discussions 1 Problem Solving And Reasoning For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Problem Solving and Reasoning. There are many ways in which cultural differences impact cognitive development. One of the areas in which we see the impact relating to cultural differences is with the development of reasoning and problem solving skills as is discussed in Chapter 8 of our textbook. “Because our habits of mind are influenced by our cultural and historical circumstances, the decision- making strategies that we seek to promote in students reflect our own culture” (Brenner

19. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 4 Discussions 2 Relationships Between Cognitive, Language, And Motor Development For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Relationships Between Cognitive, Language, and Motor Development. Cognitive, language, and motor skills are often thought to be closely interrelated developmental areas, because as children develop in these domains, they appear to demonstrate correlated developmental pathways. For this discussion you will need to choose one age group from the chart below and review all three videos for the age group you choose. After watching Pollack’s (n.d.) videos, address the points listed below.

20. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 1 Theories of Concept Representation For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Theories of Concept Representation. Identify and describe one of the three major theories of concept representation: defining-features, probabilistic, or theory-based. What is the mechanism of conceptual development in your chosen theory? Provide an example (not given in the text) that illustrates the mechanisms of your chosen theory. How would a child likely respond to a given scenario from the perspective of your chosen theory?

21. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 2 False Belief Tasks For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com False Belief Tasks. According to your text, “the ‘gold standard’ that researchers use to demonstrate understanding of belief is success on tasks that require understanding of one’s own or another person’s false belief” (Siegler, 2005, pg. 318). Young children often fail false belief tasks. This finding has been interpreted in a number of different ways. Give an original example of a false belief task that could be given to a three-year-old (do not use an example from the text). Describe an

22. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Discussions 1 Cognitive Development And Learning For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Cognitive Development and Learning. Formal schooling plays a large role helping children to develop cognitively. Along with their home and social environments, experiences in school continue to foster children’s development of cognitive skills and strategies. In school, children learn new ideas, concepts, skills and are provided with the opportunity to engage in activities where they can explore and experiment. For this discussion, you will begin by reviewing one of the videos below. Before

23. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Discussions 2 Intellectual Development For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Intellectual Development. Educators in the United States public school classroom often work with children of varying levels of ability. Children in your classroom may have Individualized Education Plans (IEP) that require specific accommodations and modifications. As part of the process of an IEP, a school psychologist evaluates the child’s intellectual

24. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 1 Planning in Problem Solving For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Planning in Problem Solving. Young children often fail to plan, even when doing so would facilitate their problem-solving performance. Select and describe one of the five reasons that children may fail to plan given on pages 357-358 of your text. Construct a classroom- based scenario that illustrates your chosen reason. What is the implication of your reason when considering the differing needs of students while planning for classroom instruction? What is one strategy that teachers can use to mediate the effects of these failures and support the problem-solving skills of their young students?

25. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Final Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Final Paper Chapter Twelve of your text identifies seven areas of cognitive development that have been addressed in this book: perception, language, memory, conceptual understanding, social cognition, problem solving, and academic skills. Table 12.1 of the chapter also identifies the eight themes of children’s thinking, in general, that have filtered throughout the course of this text.

26. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Final Project Professional Development Experience (2 PPT) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Professional Development Experience. Being an effective early childhood professional requires more than a passion for teaching or ability to work well with children. In the first five years of life, the most critical skills are formed by creating synaptic connections that are key to cognitive, social, physical, and emotional development. Because of their developmental stage, the environment you provide as an early educator will set the foundation for each child’s K- 12 learning experience

27. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Final Project Professional Development Experience (2 PPT) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Professional Development Experience. Being an effective early childhood professional requires more than a passion for teaching or ability to work well with children. In the first five years of life, the most critical skills are formed by creating synaptic connections that are key to cognitive, social, physical, and emotional development. Because of their developmental stage, the environment you provide as an early educator will set the foundation for each child’s K- 12 learning experience

28. ECE 353 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ECE 353 Week 5 Journal Course Reflection For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Course Reflection. In a one- to two-page journal entry, reflect on your experience in ECE353. Which components of the course have influenced your thinking the most in regard to cognitive development? Identify one theory that had the most profound impact on your thinking (either positively or negatively) and describe why. What effect will this have on your classroom instruction?

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