understandings of young children in Early Childhood Education. The wide use of portfolio can stimulate a shift in classroom practices and education polices. According to Meisels and Steele (1991)‚ portfolios enable children to participate in assessing their own work‚ keep track of individual children’s progress and provide a basis for evaluating the quality of individual children’s overall performance. There are many benefits of using portfolios in the early childhood classroom. Portfolio assessment has
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As a son of Mexican American immigrants‚ Richard Rodriguez recounts the story of his childhood and his struggle to assimilate into American culture. In Aria: A memoir of a Bilingual Childhood‚ Rodriguez always felt like an outcast whenever he set foot outside of his house. As a young child‚ he exclusively spoke Spanish to members of his household and tried his best to learn and speak English in the real world. He “regarded Spanish as a private language. It was a ghetto language that deepened and
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Childhood vs. Adulthood “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change.” ― Heraclitus As the above quote clearly states‚ change in inevitable. Even in human life‚ with time‚ an individual soul and the physical body undergoes change and thus with change‚ differences and similarities are bound to arise. In the human growth‚ the change can be broadly broken down into two groups: childhood and adulthood. Children and adults can be contrasted in how they act and the way they physically respond to situations
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Observation of Early Childhood The subject of my observation was Josephine‚ a three year old Caucasian female in her home environment located in Lake Highlands‚ as well as a thirty minute observation at her gymnastics class at Little Gym. She is an only child in a two-parent middle-class household and spends fifteen hours a week with a bilingual nanny while her mother is at work at a hair salon and her father is at school teaching middle school English. I observed activities in problem-solving
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The concept of childhood has been around for many of our lives‚ but it wasn’t in the lives of some of our ancestors. Childhood as an idea is something that has progressed and changed over time. Rather than childhood be biologically based like infancy‚ it is instead a socially constructed idea. Postman‚ in his 1994 publication‚ The Disappearance of Childhood addresses where the origin of childhood came from and how it has developed over time and changed to adapt depending on the country and what kind
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Good communication in early childhood is essential because without communication the child wanders hopelessly around looking for some explanation as to why things work the way they do. When born‚ children know who to look for‚ listen to and bond with. Even before birth their brains are already somewhat “prewired for survival” (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2008) Doctors and scientists have researched that in the womb babies favour the sound of their mother’s voices rather than voices of their fathers or a stranger
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Xxxxx xxxxxx Professor xxxxxx English 101 Date The Cause and Effects of Childhood Obesity The damaging effects on a child’s physical and mental health are two of the main aspects that are associated with childhood obesity. This condition is at epidemic proportions in the United States. (Henry and Martin‚ 13-6) Childhood obesity is a condition where a child weights more than the normal weight for a child their age. There are several factors that cause this condition such as food choices‚ lack of
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Middle Childhood Development Carman Moon ECE 332 Professor Haddy October 3‚ 2011 Each child will grow and develop‚ but not all will reach milestones at the same time. This makes it very important for educators and parents to have knowledge and understanding of the developmental milestones of middle childhood in order to ensure that a child is developmentally progressing within a normal time frame. These milestones are set up as a guide to help parents and educators make choices to take
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Classroom Practice Buckingham: Open University Press. - Borden‚M. E. (1997) SMART START The Parents ’ Guide To Preschool Education. Facts On File‚ Inc. 0-8160-3677-2; Oct. 97 -Dunn‚ J. (2003) Wright‚ S. Enhancing dramatic activities in the early childhood years. The Arts Young children and learning‚ Pearson Education (pp.211-227) USA: Pearson Education‚ Australia. - Johnsen‚ E.P. & Christie‚ J.F. (1986). Pretend play and logical operations. In K. Blanchard (Ed.). The many faces of play (pp. 50-58)
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Wordsworth’s Concept of Childhood Sabah Karim Abid Ali†Ã Abstract: The present paper tries to shed light on one of the most important poets of his time‚ William Wordsworth‚ and his concept of childhood. It gives a holistic picture of the poet’s own childhood‚ rearing and education which can enlighten the reasons behind his ideas and beliefs about children’s rearing and education. It also deals with the poems which show his own pure delight and interest in children and childhood since he considers
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