I am posting assignments for chapters 9 & 10. Chapters 12-13-14 combined are nearly complete and I will post them shortly. I don't yet have the Observation Sheets added, but will wait to hear if we have them on a cd. My next chapters to tackle are 18 & 22.
Week 9?
Reading Assignment:
Chapter 9: Art and Social-Emotional Growth
Discussion Board by midnight on Friday:
(Lynn, Would you like to change the deadlines to 6:00pm on Friday and Monday?)
The starting point of this chapter is to heighten your awareness of your own self-concept and self-awareness. This is a critical understanding if one is expected to help develop these same things in young children.
Who influenced your creative development when you were a child? Did you have a parent, relative, teacher, or other adult with whom you explored creative art projects?
How have you influenced the creative development of a child? Have you had creative experiences with your own children or children in your classroom? Describe some of the activities, methods, materials, and discoveries you have made while spending creative time with children.
As you write this post, keep in mind the various significant relationships discussed in the text: child-to-child, child-to-teacher, and child-to-group relationships. Share any significant relationships that have influenced creative development.
Initial posts should always be at least 400 words in length, and include at least one idea from the reading assignment (cited, of course).
Discussion Board by midnight Sunday:
Respond to at least three other student’s posts.
Initial post and a minimum of 3 replies: potentially worth 10 points.
Week 10?
Chapter 10: Art and Physical-Mental Growth
Reading Assignment: Chapter 10
Discussion Board by midnight on Friday:
Respond to 1 of the 3 choices below:
1. Are you a flexible thinker?
Young children can often be inflexible thinkers, not able to think of things in the context of change. Adults, too, can be inflexible thinkers. Ask yourself the following questions to judge your own flexibility of thought:
- Do I use the same resources and tools for planning all my lessons?
- Do I stick to my lesson plans, no matter what?
- Have I learned a new software program in the last year?
- Have I chosen to read a book with a philosophy or style that differs from my usual preferences?
- Have I chosen to watch a movie lately that differs from my usual preferences?
- Have I tried any new foods lately?
- Have I watched or participated in a new sport or physical activity lately?
- Have I changed anything in my physical appearance in the last year?
- Have I had an adventure (of any kind) lately?
2. Consider this quote from Sylvester [1995]. A Celebration of Neurons: An Educators Guide to the Human Brain [pg. 96]:
When objects and events are registered by several senses (e.g., seeing, hearing, touching, tasting), they can be stored in several interrelated memory networks. A memory stored in this way becomes more accessible and powerful than a memory stored in just one sensory area.
How is this quotation related to chapter 10?
How is this quotation related to you personally?
What would you do differently in planning creative activities for young children on the basis of this quote?
3.Review one of the following resources and provide the class with an annotation of the resource, your initial opinion of its usfulness to your work with children, and how you might use it in developing creative activities for the classroom:
Books:
- The Right Stuff for Children Birth to 8: Selecting Play Materials to Support Development by M.B. Bronson (NAEYC Publication no. 312) Available from Naeyc at http://www.naeyc.org.
- Healthy Children Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About the Physical and Mental Developmetn of Children Between the Ages of 3 and 10 by Chad T. Kimball, Omnigraphics, Inc, 2003.
- • RecognitionandResponse.org
- • www.BrainConnection.com
Initial posts should always be at least 400 words in length, and include at least one idea from the reading assignment (cited, of course).
Discussion Board by midnight Sunday:
Respond to at least three other student’s posts.
Initial post and a minimum of 3 replies: potentially worth 10 points.
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