My goal was to observe children interacting in a natural environment at the Strong Museum. I observed children’s play and learning in four different areas of child development: social‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and physical. In Strong Museum‚ I observed three different natural environments: Super Kids Market‚ Field of Play‚ and Reading Adventureland. First‚ I observed the children interacting at Super Kids Market aka Wegmans. The children had the opportunity to be a shopper or be an employee of the
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Introduction This case study drove me to observe my 17-year-old sister‚ Tanya. Her full name is Tanya Jeanette Villafuerte and she attends a public school called Elsik High School. She has big cheeks‚ black straight hair‚ and big black eyes. She lives in a two-story home with four bedrooms‚ and has a game room where she spends her free time. At school‚ she says she has a lot of friends. She is involved in ROTC and sword detail. She also attends some student council meetings for her school. I chose
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Remember a time when your parents screamed at you because of your choice of music? It was the generation gap of the past‚ in the present Let’s start with a question. A few questions‚ actually: When did it become normal for your average 35-year-old New Yorker to (a) walk around with an iPod plugged into his ears at all times‚ listening to the latest from Bloc Party; (b) regularly buy his clothes at Urban Outfitters; (c) take her toddler to a Mommy’s Happy Hour at a Brooklyn bar; (d) stay out till
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Stalin’s five year plan was launched and approved by the Communist party in 1928. Visualizing a "revolution from above"‚ Stalin’s goal was the swift industrialization and collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. Stalin believed that the Soviet domestic policy should stop being driven by capitalism and the New Economic Policy as soon as possible. In return‚ the Soviet Union would be transformed into an industrialized socialist state regardless of the cost involved in the process. The
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The Five Year Plans SUCCESSES FAILURES The improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes. Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes. Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes. Electricity - from 5‚000 million to 36‚000 million kilowatts. Poorly organised – inefficiency‚ duplication of effort and waste. The Soviet Union gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors
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CHALLENGING CHILD OBSERVATION ASSIGNMENT For my observation assignment I chose Sam‚ a four-year-old boy who stays in my class for the aftercare program. I have worked with Sam previously in the camp last summer and became aware of his challenging behavior. For starters‚ he has a medical condition – he is prone to epilepsy (the cause is unknown). Sam is on medication and his doctors are constantly adjusting it and testing his condition. Sam’s parents asked teachers to be on the lookout for
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Task 5: How would you assess students’ skills and knowledge? What records do a teacher/trainer need to keep‚ and why is it important? Assessment is the process of establishing the nature and quality of our students’ learning and measuring whether learning has actually taken place. Assessment is a key part of the teaching cycle because it enables us to measure achievement against set standards in order to ascertain if our trainees have acquired the skills and knowledge needed at a given stage
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A population was a group of potential participants to whom a researcher wanted to generalize the results of a study (Leedy & Ormod‚ 2013). The population for the study was licensed early childhood centers in Illinois. The research population for the study was early childcare staff from childcare centers‚ home based programs in Illinois. The sample consisted of early childcare staff from a major Midwestern town in Illinois. The childcare staff included teachers‚ aids‚ home visitors‚ directors‚ executive
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My life in 5 years Motherhood is my calling in life‚ I feel as though it wasn’t a choose but something I was born to do. Some people grow up wanting to be a fireman or dancer. I knew from very young that I was meant to be a mother and that one day my children will do something amazing. I have an amazing life‚ between my two amazing children‚ my days are filled with joy‚ happiness.‚ and occasionally heartache. Everyday is a new adventure with them. I live my life with excitement and creativity.
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Anh Le Professor Anna Rogers English 48 November 10th‚ 2014 Reading Journal – Always Running – Second Week (Chapter 3-5) Summary: Luis describes his life as part of the gang‚ saying that he and his friends are in a vacant lot they had claimed as their own‚ furnished with old sofas and covered by plastic to keep off at least some of the rain when an old car comes by. Two of the group go to the street to get a better look and one‚ Clavo‚ is shot in the face. Clavo loses an eye in the shooting. Luis
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