EC/Gen: Exercise 5- Children's Pay
Directions In this exercise, you will provide an accurate and detailed identification and description of children’s social/emotional development observed during dramatic play, to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the role of the teacher in enhancing the children’s social/ emotional and cognitive development, to discuss a detailed and appropriate rationale for the impact of the children’s social/emotional development on instruction, and to give a detailed description and rationale of two ways to support the children’s cognitive development during dramatic play. Characteristics: -Description of two significant aspects of the children’s social/emotional development learned through observation is insightful and thorough. -Explanation of the importance of the two aspects to teaching is effective and complete. -Discussion of observations of the group or individual children is tightly connected and logical. -Examples used to illustrate these observations are appropriate and substantive. -Description of two strategies to support and extend the children’s cognitive development is informed and thorough. -Rationale for these strategies is unambiguous. -Examples to illustrate the inference are appropriate and substantive. Prompt: Jane is a five year old kindergarten student. Her favorite center is housekeeping, where she role plays “mother” and always reads to baby dolls. She holds picture books and makes up stories from the pictures that she relates to her doll. In other centers, she tends to boss the other children around and tries to take control.
Prompts 1) Describe two aspects of this child's social and emotional development. 2) Describe two strategies to extend and support the child's cognitive development. 3) Give a rationale for these strategies citing examples from the prompt.
Created by
Patrick Ledesma
, 2007
Prompts from FCPS NBCTs