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Module 4: Strategies for Promoting Young Children's Cognitive Experiences (Feb 22- Mar 22)

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Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Week of Feb 22

Topics:

Developmental accomplishments and leading activity: Preschool, kindergarten, and primary grades

From the instructor:

How is your teaching going? Are you enjoying your internship so far? Visit the following sites and get an on-line mentor, or chat, or give somebody advice, or get more resourceful information!!! It's about time.

http://www.inspiringteachers.com/

http://grove.ufl.edu/~klesyk/

http://www.teachers.net/

This week you will be reading about "learning activity," "children's theoretical reasoning," " intrinsic motivation," and "children's emergence of higher mental function." All of these are pedagogically important concepts for you to be aware of and be able to consider when you develop self-discovery based teaching and learning experiences for young children.

In order to promote young children's theoretical reasoning, intrinsic motivation, and their emergence of higher mental function, you (teacher) should be able to provide learning environments (including lesson plans either mental lesson plan or written lesson plan) that are inquiry-based. Teachers' divergent questioning but content focused leading question is the key. Thus, think about creative and intellectually stimulating questions (every moment !) that would nurture children's self-discovery base learning experiences/decision making/problem solving!

Read "Lesson Plans" in the Assignments section again. It is about time for you to make a pedagogical connection between your understanding of children's cognitive growth and teaching (including lesson plan). Please begin to prepare your integrated lesson plan development.

Developmentally as well as social-culturally, children of ages between 3 - 8 are emerged to think/learn about certain moral issues and values. How do children construct the ideas of right and wrong? Read the suggested article (see below section "Readings") and participate on-line discussion.

When you read the suggested article, please make a note of "Something new to me" and "Something I like to consider in my early childhood integrated curriculum development and implementation" Copy of the article and your reflective notes regarding these two issues. The article and your notes should be in your final Course Performance Folder.

Readings :

Chapter 6
Read the article "Emerging Morality: How Children Think About Right and Wrong" by S. Crosser. Go to the web site! (http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/emerging.htm)

Assignments:

1. Academic Journal 6 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal)
2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time)

Describe developmentally appropriate leading activities by age groups of preschooler/kindergartner and primary graders.

How do children think and construct moral values? Any gender differences? Why? Why not?

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Week of Feb 22	Topics: Developmental accomplishments and leading activity: Preschool, kindergarten, and primary grades From the instructor: How is your teaching going? Are you enjoying your internship so far? Visit the following sites and get an on-line mentor, or chat, or give somebody advice, or get more resourceful information!!! It's about time. http://www.inspiringteachers.com/ http://grove.ufl.edu/~klesyk/ http://www.teachers.net/ This week you will be reading about "learning activity," "children's theoretical reasoning," " intrinsic motivation," and "children's emergence of higher mental function." All of these are pedagogically important concepts for you to be aware of and be able to consider when you develop self-discovery based teaching and learning experiences for young children. In order to promote young children's theoretical reasoning, intrinsic motivation, and their emergence of higher mental function, you (teacher) should be able to provide learning environments (including lesson plans either mental lesson plan or written lesson plan) that are inquiry-based. Teachers' divergent questioning but content focused leading question is the key. Thus, think about creative and intellectually stimulating questions (every moment !) that would nurture children's self-discovery base learning experiences/decision making/problem solving! Read "Lesson Plans" in the Assignments section again. It is about time for you to make a pedagogical connection between your understanding of children's cognitive growth and teaching (including lesson plan). Please begin to prepare your integrated lesson plan development. Developmentally as well as social-culturally, children of ages between 3 - 8 are emerged to think/learn about certain moral issues and values. How do children construct the ideas of right and wrong? Read the suggested article (see below section "Readings") and participate on-line discussion. When you read the suggested article, please make a note of "Something new to me" and "Something I like to consider in my early childhood integrated curriculum development and implementation" Copy of the article and your reflective notes regarding these two issues. The article and your notes should be in your final Course Performance Folder. Readings : Chapter 6 Read the article "Emerging Morality: How Children Think About Right and Wrong" by S. Crosser. Go to the web site! (http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/emerging.htm) Assignments: 1. Academic Journal 6 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal) 2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time) Describe developmentally appropriate leading activities by age groups of preschooler/kindergartner and primary graders. How do children think and construct moral values? Any gender differences? Why? Why not?

The students will be able to

identify developmentally appropriate leading activities for preschooler / kindergartner and primary graders.

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Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Week of Mar 1

Topics:

Tactics for promoting development and learning/teaching
Tactics: Using mediators

From the instructor:

This week you are reading another important chapter and an article! Please read the weekly readings with a "serious" attention!!! The two reading materials have VERY important teaching implications! It will also give you many ideas for your Instructional Material Set development as one of the course assignments.
When you read the chapter 7, please pay attention to the following concepts: mediators, internal speech, external mediators, types of mediators, mediators used in social and emotional sense making, perception, attention, memory, thinking and reasoning, self-regulation, scaffolded writing techniques, scaffolded reading strategies.

When you read the suggested article (see below section "Readings"), please make a note of "Something new to me" and "Something I like to consider in my early childhood integrated curriculum development and implementation" Copy of the article and your reflective notes regarding these two issues. The article and your notes should be in your final Course Performance Folder.

Readings :

Chapter 7
Read the article "The Wonders of Nature: Honoring Children's Ways of Knowing, by R. Wilson. To to the web site! (http;//www.earlychildhoodnews.com/wonders.htm)

Assignments:

1. Academic Journal 7 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal)
2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time)

What is mediator? Why do children use mediators? How do they used it? Any developmentally appropriate teaching implication you came up with?

How is children's way of knowing differ from adults?

What is the article ["The Wonders of Nature: Honoring Children's Ways of Knowing"] about? What implication did you came up with?

The students will be able to

describe function of mediators

describe types of mediators

Date	Topics, Readings, and Assignments
Week of Mar 1	Topics: Tactics for promoting development and learning/teaching Tactics: Using mediators From the instructor: This week you are reading another important chapter and an article! Please read the weekly readings with a "serious" attention!!! The two reading materials have VERY important teaching implications! It will also give you many ideas for your Instructional Material Set development as one of the course assignments. When you read the chapter 7, please pay attention to the following concepts: mediators, internal speech, external mediators, types of mediators, mediators used in social and emotional sense making, perception, attention, memory, thinking and reasoning, self-regulation, scaffolded writing techniques, scaffolded reading strategies. When you read the suggested article (see below section "Readings"), please make a note of "Something new to me" and "Something I like to consider in my early childhood integrated curriculum development and implementation" Copy of the article and your reflective notes regarding these two issues. The article and your notes should be in your final Course Performance Folder. Readings : Chapter 7 Read the article "The Wonders of Nature: Honoring Children's Ways of Knowing, by R. Wilson. To to the web site! (http;//www.earlychildhoodnews.com/wonders.htm) Assignments: 1. Academic Journal 7 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal) 2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time) What is mediator? Why do children use mediators? How do they used it? Any developmentally appropriate teaching implication you came up with? How is children's way of knowing differ from adults? What is the article ["The Wonders of Nature: Honoring Children's Ways of Knowing"] about? What implication did you came up with?

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Week of Mar 8-14

Spring Break

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Week of Mar 8-14	*Spring Break*

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Week of Mar 15

Topics:

Tactics: Using language

From the instructor:

Why are children able to learn language? Click here!
Language, thoughts, and culture: How are words, concepts, and cultures related? Click here!

Is writing promote children's thinking? How? Why? Click here!

Readings :

Chapter 8: This is very important chapter. Please do not miss a thing! Ready to post and discuss various teaching and learning implications!!!! (YOUR Ideas!!!)

Assignments:

1. Academic Journal 8 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal)
2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time)

How did Vygotsky view language as a cultural tool?

How do children construct/or develop meaning in a constructivistic view?

How does writing promote children's thinking?

What are developmentally meaningful writing experiences?

Using Vygoptsky's approach create and share several ways to enhance children's use of language in ECE classrooms.

The students will be able to

articulate relationship between language and culture

describe developmentally meaningful constructivistic writing experiences for young children

Date	Topics, Readings, and Assignments
Week of Mar 15	Topics: Tactics: Using language From the instructor: Why are children able to learn language? Click here! Language, thoughts, and culture: How are words, concepts, and cultures related? Click here! Is writing promote children's thinking? How? Why? Click here! Readings : Chapter 8: This is very important chapter. Please do not miss a thing! Ready to post and discuss various teaching and learning implications!!!! (YOUR Ideas!!!) Assignments: 1. Academic Journal 8 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal) 2. WebBoard: Discuss one of the following questions, and react to others' answer (at least one time) How did Vygotsky view language as a cultural tool? How do children construct/or develop meaning in a constructivistic view? How does writing promote children's thinking? What are developmentally meaningful writing experiences? Using Vygoptsky's approach create and share several ways to enhance children's use of language in ECE classrooms.

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Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Week of Mar 21

Topics:

Tactics: Using shared activities
Video review on "How Young Children Learn to Think" & "Making a Language, Literature, Science Connection in the Classroom"

Workshop on Lesson Planning & the Sunshine State Standards.

From the instructor:

It is our third Face-to-Face meeting. Please bring your question if you have one.
You have to finish reading chapter 9 before you come to the class for workshop participation.

On-campus meeting (on Thursday, March 25, 12:30-3:15pm) Room 172, BHGIII, FGCU

Readings :

Chapter 9

Assignments:

1. Academic Journal 9 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal)

The students will be able to

describe young children's nature of thinking process based on their field experiences and observations in conjunction with the video review on "How Young Children Learn To Think."

develop integrated lesson plan objectives and related learning experiences using the Sunshine State Standards in cooperative small groups

Date	Topics, Readings, and Assignments
Week of Mar 21	Topics: Tactics: Using shared activities Video review on "How Young Children Learn to Think" & "Making a Language, Literature, Science Connection in the Classroom" Workshop on Lesson Planning & the Sunshine State Standards. From the instructor: It is our third Face-to-Face meeting. Please bring your question if you have one. You have to finish reading chapter 9 before you come to the class for workshop participation. On-campus meeting (on Thursday, March 25, 12:30-3:15pm) Room 172, BHGIII, FGCU Readings : Chapter 9 Assignments: 1. Academic Journal 9 (See: the Grading Rubric System for Academic Journal)

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