Do you feel like you are ready to work with children of different developing stages? If so, why? If not, why not? What additional information will be helpful for you in order to feel prepared?

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You have come such a long way since Week 1! You should be proud of your accomplishments over the past four weeks. Now, take some time to reflect on your experience in ECE 205. For this journal, address three or four questions such as the following in your reflection:

  • What has impacted your learning the most throughout this course?
  • What was your favorite discussion and favorite assignment, and why?
  • What did you learn in this course that surprised or inspired you?
  • What will you take from this course that you will use in your current and/or future profession?
  • Do you feel like you are ready to work with children of different developing stages? If so, why? If not, why not? What additional information will be helpful for you in order to feel prepared?
  • Add anything else you feel is relevant about child development and this course that is important to you.

Suggested Assignment Length

  • One to two double-spaced pages (not including title and reference pages).

Research and Resource Expectations

  • Sources are not required for your journal assignments. However, if you need to cite information, you must cite in APA format and include a reference page. Refer to the Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resources created by the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Writing and Formatting Expectations

  • Syntax and Mechanics: Writing displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Describe instructional strategies that use primary sources to enhance civics standards-based instruction.

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In the social studies classroom, multiple forms of communication (oral, written, nonverbal, digital, and visual) are used to convey ideas, foster self-expression, and build relationships. Social studies teachers often use primary sources as evidence to strengthen content comprehension and model the various forms of communication.

 

The purpose of this assignment is to explore how primary sources can be used to foster positive communication in the classroom.

In this assignment you will prepare a presentation for a group of elementary teachers explaining how to use primary sources to strengthen civics content comprehension while integrating communication skills in the classroom.

Design an 8-10 slide digital presentation teaching your peers how to incorporate primary sources and communication skills within the context of teaching civics in the elementary school setting.

Within your presentation:

Describe instructional strategies that use primary sources to enhance civics standards-based instruction.

Explain how the use of primary sources can model and teach multiple forms of communication.

Provide two specific examples using two different civics standards of varying elementary grade levels from the state of Florida. For each chosen standard share:

  • Aligned objectives.
  • Instructional strategies that use primary sources and engage students in positive communication.

Be sure to include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Discuss the characteristics of physical and cognitive development during adolescence and the affect it has on the learning process for students

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Teacher candidates will learn of development characteristics from a nurse, physical education teacher, sports coach, or other health specialist at the school and practicing special education teacher. In this block, your field experience must be completed outside of school hours when students are not present.

Contact a health specialist and a special education teacher from secondary grades 6-12 and arrange separate interviews. Speak with your instructor about alternate professionals to interview, if necessary.

Use the following points of discussion to guide your interview:

  1. Discuss characteristics of adolescence.
  2. What characteristics seem to change the most and why?
  3. What characteristics seem to never change?
  4. How does physical development influence the characteristics of adolescence?
  5. How does cognitive development influence the characteristics of adolescence?
  6. How do social and emotional relationships influence the adolescent?
  7. What technologies are used to facilitate adolescent learning?

In 250-500 words, summarize and reflect on your interviews.  Discuss the characteristics of physical and cognitive development during adolescence and the affect it has on the learning process for students. Explain the effect that social and emotional relationships have during adolescence.

Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.

summarization of ALL the environmental factors you observed, including the potential impact each of them could have on the worker; and 

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This assignment is designed to provide an opportunity to apply the concepts presented in the Unit V Lesson regarding controlling ergonomic risk factors with proper work environmental design.

Specifically, you will be evaluating a work task to identify specific control measures that can be implemented to improve the design of the work.

For this assignment, you will evaluate the same video from Unit III and IV to identify opportunities to improve the task using the concepts presented in your Unit V Lesson.

Click here to access the video for this assignment. Please note that this video includes audio.

You are required to develop a report that includes the following information:

  1. identification of ALL of the environmental factors you observed in the video;
  2. summarization of ALL the environmental factors you observed, including the potential impact each of them could have on the worker; and
  3. recommendations for controlling the environmental risk factors using the hierarchy of controls (you must include at least one of each of the controls: engineering control, administrative control, and PPE).

Your completed assignment must include a minimum of two outside sources, one of which must be from the CSU Online Library, and the assignment must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and references pages. You may also include graphics to illustrate your design recommendations.