Assignment:
Research Paper: SINGLE PARENTS
This assignment addresses the following NAEYC Standards:
- Knowing and understanding the multiple influences on development and learning.
- Using developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments
- Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice
- Written and verbal skills
- Making connections between prior knowledgeable/experience and new learning
- Identifying and using professional resources
Course Competency:
For this assignment, my topic for this paper is single parents, based upon a specific topic or issue of child development
Written Component:
You will write a paper that is a minimum of 3 pages [less than 3 pages will not be graded] in length, double spaced and includes the following:
- An interesting and thoughtful introduction. Your introduction should give a brief overview of your topic and why this topic is important to the field of child development
- Research information from a minimum of 2 Internet articles and a minimum of 2 professional journal or magazine or book articles. [The research information should be accurate and current]
Include your synthesis and analysis of the research (do not simply restate from sources)
Identify how the topic can impact each of the domains of development: physical development, cognitive development and social/emotional development.
An interesting and thoughtful conclusion. Your conclusion should summarize at least two to three points explaining what you learned. State your personal views of the research, and explain how you will use this information to best support a child facing issues related to this topic.
A reference page at the end of your paper - where you will professionally cite the articles and Internet resources using APA format.