Assignment
I would like you to consider this exam to be an important reflective activity. We love teaching, but not everything about teaching is wonderful. In the next 15 hours you will have an opportunity to share your opinions, reflections, and viewpoints on child development. Please take your time and work all day long. Please submit this exam electronically today by midnight. Feel free to use your textbook as your reference guide. Educators who allow students to take open-book exams are not teaching for the test. The open-book tests are more challenging because they require high-order thinking skills and allow university students to be creative and independent. You are welcome to cite, compare, and evaluate educational articles, students' voices (group discussions and individual presentations) and other informal and formal sources. Your personal teaching and learning experiences are especially valuable. Today, you will utilize the lifelong learning skill of "accessing information" rather than memorizing data. I encourage you to access and apply the information you have learned. I have also included the questions about the psychological effects of living during a pandemic (Question 50 and 51). You can also create your own final question as the question No. 52.
Select and answer 3 questions that are relevant and interesting. You also have a choice of writing you own question and providing an answer. Go to question number 52 and write you own question in the dotted space.
Task
1. What are the advantages of taking courses in child development?
2. What measures will you take to continually keep abreast of current educational and developmental research?
3. What type of parenting style did your parents employ while raising you? Would you adopt the same style or would you change it?
4. Is there a sensitive period in the brain's development in which children should learn to read, play music, and learn mathematics?
5. Describe developmental periods from the age of infancy to late adolescence?
6. Are violent videos games making children and youth more aggressive? Could you please provide several examples?
7. What are the effects on technology on students' social, emotional, and cognitive development?
8. Can professionals really make a difference in helping children and adolescence avoid engaging in unhealthy (and often illegal) behaviors (e.g., smoking)?
9. Describe your first experience/impression from your service learning classroom. What kind of behavioral problems did you observe?
10. Select a teacher/a good psychologist from your past and explain why this teacher's developmental strategies appealed to you?
11. How can teachers meet the diverse needs of an increasingly multicultural student population in Florida?
12. What can you do about bullying in your classroom?
13. Describe and recommend a movie or TV show that addresses many aspects of child development?
14. How can you increase your high school students' self-esteem?
15. How does the adolescent culture shape teenagers perceptions and behaviors?
16. Select one of the contemporary family problems (divorce, latchkey kids, homeless families, dropping out, homosexuality, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, substance abuse, youth suicide, sexual orientation, and bullying) and discuss its impact on students' emotional and cognitive growth.
17. What role do families play with regard to students' academic success?
18. Are learning disabilities hardwired into students' brain from birth, or are there environmental influences on disabilities?
19. Is students' intelligence fixed, or can it be increased by schooling?
20. Is daycare a positive or negative influence on children's development?
21. Select an educational article depicting the educational research project/study and identify the research methods used by the researchers?
22. How can educators apply the new discoveries in the field of brain development?
23. What are the educational implications of Piaget's idea that children are naturally curious about their world and actively see out information?
24. How can you apply the principles of Piaget's theory of cognitive development in your classroom?
25. How can you apply the principles of Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development in your classroom?
26. Design the activities to stimulate your preschoolers' physical development.
27. How could you address the issue of obesity and eating disorder with your high school students?
28. Why is poverty a risk factor for children?
29. Describe how the brain develops from infancy through adolescence and analyze how experiences in your classroom may influence brain architecture in learners.
30. What predicts individual differences in growth and motor skills in children?
31. Describe the principles and implications of behaviorism in education?
32. What are age trends in information processing (chapter 4)?
33. How would use your knowledge of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences in your classroom?
34. What are the implications for the future of a securely attached infant? For an insecurely attached infant?
35. How might temperament influence children's behavior in the classroom?
36. Explain the importance of emotions for learners' success in the classroom.
37. What are the classroom implications of emotion regulation?
38. How does personal experience influence youngsters' social understanding?
39. How to use "humor" in your classroom?
40. Explain the role of "play" in your classroom?
41. Describe how language develops with age, and how to promote language development.
42. Describe how literacy skills develop with age, and how to promote good reading and writing skills.
43. Apply the major theories of learning and cognition to teaching literacy.
44. Describe how the self-esteem functions and promotes positive self-concept in your learners.
45. Describe how gender and ethnic identity affect school success and create classrooms that minimalize sexism and racism.
46. Apply principles of motivation to increase your students' motivation.
47. Articulate how family structure influences children.
48. Evaluate how media can positively influences learners.
49. Describe how media can negatively influences learners and analyze how to help learners minimalize negative influences.
50. Describe how COVID-19 affected school children in Florida in Spring 2021.
51. Describe how the pandemic influenced and your family your personally this semester, in 2020 and 2021.
52. ................................................................................................
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.