CE114 Unit 8

Welcome! Our seminar will begin at 7:00.

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Tonight’s Quote

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a

year of conversation.”

Plato

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Final Project

• Project deadline – End of Unit 9 (February 15)

• Two options for project• Go to Wikispace – Unit 9 and watch Project

video• Return to seminar – questions?

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Diversity and Individual Differences

Encourage positive self-concepts.

Provide opportunities for discovery of cultural

identity.

Promote social skills including perspective taking,

communicating, and conflict resolutions.

Teach lessons using multi-cultural curriculum.

(Black & Puckett, 2005, p. 366).

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Parten’s Pattern of Play

Onlooker play: the child observes others playing

Solitary play: the child participates in a different

activity without the involvement of others.

(Black & Puckett, 2005, p. 367).

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More Play Patterns

Parallel play: the child plays in a like activity without the

involvement of others

Associative play: the child plays, talks about the

activity, but does not allow other play goals to

override his goals

(Black & Puckett, 2005, p. 367).

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Play Patterns

Cooperative play: the child plays, cooperates, and works out assigned role in mutual agreement with other children concerning shared goals and themes

7(Black & Puckett, 2005, p. 367).

Role of play in Language Development

Sociodramatic play: the child’s attempt to integrate social knowledge into role playing activities

Concrete objects are significant props in play themesMetacommunication: the child uses his or her cognitive

skills to plan, reconstruct, and talk about play scripts

(Black & Puckett, 2005, p. 406).

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Building Pre-number concepts

Develop pre-number concepts

Classifications

Discovering relationships between sets

Conservation of a number

More or less

Numbers have value

Counting (Lightenberg & Troutman, 1995).

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Field Trip!!

1. Go to our class Wikispace and click on Unit 82. Watch the video on Piaget’s Preoperational Stage

– What was interesting about the reaction of the child?

3. Now click on the article, Cognitive Development in the PreSchool Years– What are some implications for us as we design educational

environments for this children as we think about the 6 critical concepts mentioned in the article?

4. Read the article on Cognitive Development at the bottom of the page. – Would this information be useful to parents? How might you share

with them?

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness: individual sounds are used to

create words

Phonemes: children can be taught to listen for sounds in

words and that words are made up of the smallest parts

of sound.

Phonics: understanding relationships between sound and

written letters

(U.S. Department of Education, 2007).

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Sounds make words

Children need to be taught the sounds individual printed

letters and groups of letters make.

Knowing the relationships between letters and sounds

helps children to recognize familiar words accurately and

automatically, and “decode” new words

(U.S. Department of Education, 2007).

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Vocabulary and Comprehension

Vocabulary development: teach children the meaning of words and how they are pronounced.

Build on the child’s understanding of the written or spoken words.

Teach children how to use the words that they know. Comprehension strategies: teach children to remember

what they have read or heard read to them.

(U.S. Department of Education, 2007).

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Theorists

Piaget: Hands-on, concrete objects, and sensorimotor development

Vygotsky: Zone of Proximal DevelopmentGardner: Multiple IntelligenceErikson: Stages of Development. Our 4 and five

year olds are in the initiative versus guilt stage. Positive interactions help to develop good self-esteem in the child of this age. Negative ones give the child a distorted picture of himself

(Black & Puckett, 2005).

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Our time is about over for tonight. I have enjoyed our time together and hope that you have a

great week!

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References

Black, J.K., & Puckett, M.P., (2005). The young child: Development from prebirth through age eight. Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc

Jupiter Images Corporation, (2007). Clipart.com. Retrieved August 28, 2007 from website: http://www.clipart.com

Lightenberg, B.K., & Troutman, A., (1995). Mathematics a good beginning: strategies for teaching children. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks Cole Publishing Company.

U.S. Department of Education (2007). Educational Partnerships and Family Involvement Unit. Retrieved August 23, 2007 from website: ed.gov link.

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