Welcoming Children and Families: A Family Resource Guide [WLO: 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4] One of the keys to a successful early learning environment is building a strong foundation with children and famili

Week 5: Welcoming Children and Families: A Family Resource Guide

Your Name

ECE 205: Introduction to Child Development

Instructor's Name

Date

Welcoming Children and Families: A Family Resource Guide

In this section, write a brief introduction that will allow your reader to follow the organization and focus of your guide.

Personal Introduction

Provide a short personal bio here which includes your name, location and something about yourself that your families would find interesting. Describe why you chose to become an early childhood professional and what you love about working with children in this age range (be sure you are specific about the age range). Explain what you believe are the most important indicators of professionalism that you possess.

Importance of Early Learning

In this section, explain the important role that high quality care can have on a child’s overall growth and development. Discuss one key theory of child development (Gardner, Vygotsky, Piaget, Skinner, Bronfenbrenner, etc.) that resonates with you as an early childhood professional. Describe this theory and its connection to Developmentally Appropriate Practice within the classroom. Incorporate information from your course readings and/or outside sources in this paragraph.

Discuss a second key theory of child development (Gardner, Vygotsky, Piaget, Skinner, Bronfenbrenner, etc.) that resonates with you as an early childhood professional. Describe this theory and its connection to Developmentally Appropriate Practice within the classroom. Incorporate information from your course readings and/or outside sources in this paragraph.

Discuss at least one way in which you differentiate learning experiences based on typical development, atypical development, and culture. Incorporate information from your course readings and/or outside sources in this paragraph.

Environment

Using your description from Week Two, Discussion Two, create a classroom layout using the Classroom Architect or the Gliffy website. Include this picture of the layout of your ideal classroom here. Next, describe how your room design reflects the way you believe children learn best.

Incorporating information from your course readings and/or outside sources, explain how specifically your learning environment (for your chosen age range) nurtures the development of every child in each of the domains listed below:

Cognitive: Describe the specific classroom practices or strategies that reflect your philosophy of how to support young children’s cognitive development.

Social/Emotional: Describe at least one of the ways you support the development of children’s positive self-concept and growing social/emotional skills.

Reflect on your philosophy of guiding young children’s positive behaviors. How do you constructively deal with young children’s challenging behaviors?

Language: Describe ways to promote the communication/language development among all children including dual language learners.

Physical: Describe your specific classroom practices or strategies that reflect your philosophy of how to support young children’s physical development.

Families

Describe the important role that families have on the overall growth and development of children and why you value them in your classroom. Incorporate information from your textbook and/or outside sources in this paragraph.

Describe the ways in which you ensure that families are kept aware of their child’s daily/weekly development in your classroom.

Explain how you ensure that you are aware of what’s happening in each child’s home life. Explain how that awareness directs your teaching practices.

Complete a resource page for families that includes the following resources in your local area:

• • The name and contact information (phone number, web site, etc.) of a local agency that provides family counseling

  • The name and contact information (phone number, web site, etc.) of a translation service for families whose native language is not English.

  • The name, contact information and brief descriptions of at least two agencies in the community that provide resources and services for children with disabilities.

  • A list of three or more current websites, along with brief descriptions of each, to help families understand how young children develop and learn.

    • You can use readings or resources presented throughout this class, or new ones that you feel are appropriate.

Conclusion

Briefly summarize the ideas that you discussed in the above paragraphs and briefly explain of the significance of these ideas.

References

Use APA format to cite and reference at least four scholarly sources, in addition to the course readings. Remember, you MUST include in-text citations throughout your paper to show your reader what information you used from these outside sources.

*In the final version of your assignment, be sure that you have removed all of the hints (green boxes) within the template.