Although most children are naturally eager to learn science, math, engineering, and technology concepts, some early childhood teachers shy away from teaching STEM topics. Sometimes, teachers avoid STEM subjects because they lack content knowledge and feel that they are not prepared to answer children's questions or stimulate children's critical thinking.  Although learning standards exist […]

Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook: Developing Family Partnerships [CLOs: 1, 2, 4] This week, you will continue to develop your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook by completing the Developing Family Partnerships section. This week’s readings include Chapters 4-7 of the Gestwicki text and focuses on building family partnerships. Chapter 4 presents the NAEYC Code of […]

ECE631 – Early Childhood Education Family Partnerships   Week 1: Instructor Guidance     Learning Outcomes   1. Describe why it is important to understand the diversity of families in early childhood education. 2. Identify a diversity trend that impacts families today. 3. Examine how parenting roles impact children in early childhood education.   Overview […]

This week you will begin developing your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook. More specifically, you will be completing the Parenting Roles section. This week’s readings include the American College of Pediatricians (2013) position statement on the rights, roles, and responsibilities of parents. This resource presents seven distinct roles that families play in modern day parenting. […]

In the 1970s, one of the main arguments for using closed technologies focused on economics: companies asked how they could make money from other companies and could build the same products. Look online and compare the histories of Cisco Systems, one of the first companies to build products using the open Internet standards, and Digital […]

Select an evaluation study from this week’s resources. Consider how you would present the information to a group of colleagues. (uploaded) Download the PowerPoint Presentation template from the Learning Resources and use it for this Discussion (Uploaded) Post three slides in which you present the results of the evaluation to a group of social work […]

  A Cooperative School Culture [WLO: 1] [CLOs: 3, 4] Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapters 10 and 11 from the course text, Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers and Students. Read the chapter School Culture and Change as Learning from the book, Culture Re-Boot: Reinvigorating School Culture to Improve Student […]

Assessment Traits Requires Lopeswrite Assessment Description Classroom activities focused on the study of morphemes can help ELLs understand that words are made up of individual units. When students recognize how English words are formed by joining roots, prefixes, and suffixes, they are more likely to increase their vocabulary knowledge, comprehension of texts, and proficiency in […]

Order Instructions     Using the three cases at the beginning of Chapter 5 – Anthony, Jasmine, and Gabriela – in an essay (1,000-1500 words), cite three to five scholarly sources to address the following prompts:           How would you describe their physical, cognitive, cultural, emotional, and social development?     […]

Order Instructions     Week 5 Assignment           Objective: To explain a child growth and development theory and describe parenting techniques following a chosen theory’s perspective.           Assignment format: PowerPoint with 8 – 10 content slides, and in addition 1 introductory slide, and in addition 1 ending […]