Hayley Anderson Rasmussen-Eagan Campus Foundations of Child Development Hacker‚ Julie November 13‚ 2012 Dear parents‚ I am Hayley Anderson and I am so pleased to be working with your children! I am 19 years of age and I have been working with young children for about 2 months now and I love every minute of it. I closely align my teaching philosophy with Behaviorism and Social learning theory‚ by B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson. Learning about all of the different theories I think I best
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The Struggle over the Saloon In 1881‚ the people of Worcester‚ MA debated whether to vote to “…sanction the sale of liquor under a licensing system” or to “…close all liquor dealers and saloons.” How one stood on this issue was often determined by their social class. For example‚ “…the temperance crusade was‚ in part‚ an effort made by the city’s middle and upper classes to reform‚ reshape‚ and restrict working-class recreational practices.” But nevertheless‚ this struggle never followed straight
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Are women better parents than men? Dear Yuser‚ Please read through all my edits before fixing this essay. There is a grading rubric at the end of the essay so that you can see how this essay scores as a rough draft. According to some scientific researches‚ children who can’t find their fathers make one up or appropriate one to their liking‚ whether or not they call him "Daddy." It is not only when they can’t find their father‚ but even when they feel that their father is not behaving like the
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A Parents Dillemma The case of the "savior sibling" that ocurred in 2006 created worldwide controversy when a swiss couple traveled to Belgium where a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD could be legally performed. The parents of the six year old boy who suffered from a life-threatening immune compromising disease had exhausted all other available options.They were now forced to be "medical tourists" ‚ travelling to a nation that legally allowed PGD. The moral and ethical
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Nonviolent struggle has been utilized countless times throughout the history of civilization. Contrary to popular belief‚ many of the world’s greatest wars are fought free of violence. Nonviolent actions offer an alternative approach to conflict resolution; one that does not resort to literal war and prevents blood shedding. The motivation behind these struggles vary‚ but the desired outcome is always to promote or prevent a change. Conflicts are diverse‚ and typically they are concerned with social
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support that it is more beneficial for girls to study in a girls-only secondary school than in co-educational school. Actually，the disadvantages overweigh the advantages of choosing such schools. This essay will argue three disadvantages brought by single-sex school: poor socialization skills‚ skewed perception of gender roles and incorrect learning styles. To begin with，it is difficult for those who enter adult society after years of segregation to build meaningful friendships and even successful
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Single-sex schools are not a very good idea to have because of the differences‚ behaviors and because it is not a science to prove why. Single sex schools are not a good idea to have because of the behaviors of boys and girls. “When it comes to our kid’s educations‚ stick to what works‚ like smaller class sizes‚ more teacher training and greater attention to curriculum”‚ says Galen Sherwin of the staff attorney at The American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project. There are always different
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Dear Parents of the Teddy Bear Room (4-year old room). Over the last two centuries‚ there have been major changes in early childhood education. Children are found to have a more lasting grasp on education‚ when they are taught in a play based developmentally age appropriate environment. My focus will be the social and emotional aspect of the students. I will make sure each of the students are comfortable and making a connection to the other students in the classroom. Every child will make
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decline in blood concentration from a mean of 13.41 (SD=2.48) to 12.38 (SD=2.69)‚ t(39)=3.38‚ p<.01 (one tailed).ʺ Explain this result (including the underlying logic of the computations) to a person who understands hypothesis testing involving a single sample and a known population‚ but knows nothing about t tests. 2. A psychiatrist hires you to study whether her clients self-disclosed more while sitting in an easy chair or lying down on a couch. All clients had previously agreed to allow the
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CONCERNED PARENT As a parent of an eleven year old student who is now preparing to write the examination for entry into secondary school‚ I would like to share with you my views on the issue of extra lessons. Your school offers extra lessons on five evenings of the week and half day on Saturday. I think this is outrageous. Do you believe hat there is a real need to give extra lessons? Do you believe that after children have been subject to whole day’s teaching‚ they are mentally alert to
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