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ECE 353 Entire Course For more classes
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Discussions 1 Theories And Theoretical Frameworks
(Piagetian Theory/Nativist Approaches) ECE 353
Week 1 Discussions 2 Genetic And Biological
Factors ECE 353 Week 2 Assignment How The Brain
Learns ECE 353 Week 2 Discussions 1 Brain
Development ECE 353 Week 3 Assignment Role Of
Families And The Community ECE 353 Week 3
Discussions 1 Cognitive And Conceptual
Development ECE 353 Week 3 Discussions 2 Theory
Of Mind ECE 353 Week 4 Discussions 1 Problem
Solving And Reasoning
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ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 1 Theories And
Theoretical Frameworks (Piagetian Theory/Nativist
Approaches) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com Theories and Theoretical Frameworks. As an
early childhood professional, it is expected you
will understand and apply foundational knowledge
and theories in the field. Foundational knowledge
and theoretical understanding provides a
framework for you to utilize when you are working
with infants, toddlers, and school-aged children.
Additionally, your understanding of the
foundational knowledge and theories will inform
and shape your professional practices. For this
discussion you will start by completing the
Theoretical Frameworks Venn Diagram using your
assigned grouping below. If you are unsure of how
to complete a
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ECE 353 Week 1 Discussions 2 Genetic And
Biological Factors For more classes
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Factors. Genetic, biological, and environmental
factors are known to a have significant impact on
the development of all children, including
children with attention- deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), autism, dyslexia, and other
neurodevelopmental disorders. For children with
specific disorders, there are multiple genetic,
biological, and environmental factors that work
together to create a spectrum of neurobiological
symptoms. For many of
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ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in
Children's Thinking For more classes
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Childrens Thinking. Chapter One of your text
identifies the six most important questions in
the study of childrens thinking Are some
capabilities innate? Does development progress
through stages? How does change occur?
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ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2 Addressing Bias in
Intelligence Testing For more classes
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Intelligence Testing. Daniel, an eight-year-old
child from a poor, inner-city neighborhood, is
given a traditional IQ test. One section of the
IQ test involves defining various words. Yacht
is one of the words that Daniel is asked to
define. Briefly discuss why the test
administrator should be cautious when
interpreting Daniels performance on this test.
How does the triarchic theory potentially counter
this bias? Develop and share three questions, one
for each
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ECE 353 Week 1 The Piagetian Model For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com The Piagetian
Model. There is little argument that while not
perfect, Piagets theories have had a profound
impact on the field of cognitive development.
Provide an analysis of his model as well as the
challenges to it. In a two- to three-page paper,
please include the following components Define
the four main stages of Piagets theory, along
with their age ranges
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ECE 353 Week 2 Assignment How The Brain
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How the Brain Learns. In Chapters 3 and 4 of
your primary text, Farrar and Montgomery discuss
executive functioning and memory development
(2015), you learned about factors that influence
brain development. For this assignment, you will
build upon that knowledge by further
investigating how the brain learns. Remember that
working memory, attention, and executive
functions are interconnected and are crucial to
the learning process. This includes the ability
for a child
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ECE 353 Week 2 Discussions 1 Brain
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l.com now widely accepted that a childs
environment and early life experiences affect the
development, health, and structure of their
brain. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the
brain is its ability to change structurally and
functionally in response to external stimuli,
which is known as neuroplasticity. Watch the
video Neuroplasticity to learn more about this
concept (Sentis, 2012). Additionally, it is now
believed that positive and stimulating
environments promote healthy brain development.
However, many children are exposed to
environments that have negative consequences on
brain development. Child abuse (physical, sexual,
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ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1 Cultural Tools For more
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Tools. Cultural tools shape cognitive development
and can include both technical tools, which act
on the environment, and psychological tools,
which are tools for thinking. Discuss Vygotskys
belief that language is the most significant of
the cultural tools. Do you agree or disagree?
Examine the given images of other psychological
tools. Choose one of the given tools and discuss
how that tool may influence cognitive development
from the perspective of the sociocultural
theories. What do you feel are the ramifications
of your tool on student learning? Is your chosen
tool an example of the ratchet effect? Defend
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ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational Innovations For
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l Innovations. Many educational innovations, such
as dynamic assessment and FCL (Fostering
Communities of Learners) classrooms, have
incorporated insights about learning and
development from the sociocultural theories.
Choose either dynamic assessment or FCL. Define
your choice, and discuss how it incorporates
insights about learning and development from the
sociocultural theories. Develop one activity that
effectively illustrates your chosen educational
innovation in practice.
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ECE 353 Week 3 Assignment Role Of Families And
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ial.com Role of Families and the Community CLOs
4. Due by Day 7. One responsibility of
professionals when working with children is
offering support for families by sharing
information with them about developmentally
appropriate strategies for their children and the
availability of resources in their community.
Recall that during Week Two you developed a flyer
that taught the families that you work with about
the role of working memory, attention, and
executive function in learning and development.
Now, imagine the principal of a local school
district saw your flyer and has invited you to
submit a proposal for an upcoming district-wide
professional development conference. Your
proposal will need to analyze the role that
families and communities play in promoting
optimal cognitive
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ECE 353 Week 3 Discussions 1 Cognitive And
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Conceptual Development. Concepts are fundamental
to human cognition because of their use in many
forms of thinking, such as problem-solving,
categorization, and inductive inferences (Farrar
Montgomery, 2015, p. 186). To apply your
understanding of cognitive and conceptual
development, it is important to first understand
the three different theories of concept
development that are commonly used. Chapters 5 in
your primary text discuss the following theories
the classical view of conceptual development (the
ideas that all concepts are defined by a set of
necessary and sufficient features), prototype or
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ECE 353 Week 3 Discussions 2 Theory Of Mind For
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Mind. Theory of Mind is a theory of psychological
and developmental roots that is defined by the
ability of a child to attribute mental states
such as beliefs, feelings, knowledge, thoughts,
intents to oneself and others and to understand
that others have beliefs and feelings that are
different than ones own. The diagram below
represents the five foundational components of
theory of mind that emerge between ages 2 and 5
that were shared in Chapter 6 of our course
text,Cognitive development of children Research
and application . Understanding this
developmental sequence is critical in being able
to support children as they grow and develop
cognitively.
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ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological Acquisition For
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al Acquisition. Watch the talk by Patricia Kuhl,
entitled The Linguistic Genius of Babies. How do
her findings support language acquisition in
regard to phonology as it is described in Chapter
Six of your text? Include a discussion of the
need for a social context when developing
phonological awareness and why. How did your own
social context impact your phonological awareness?
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ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory Facilitation For more
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Facilitation. Older children typically remember
more than younger children. Identify and describe
two strategies that older children use to
facilitate their memories. Reflecting on your own
personal experiences, what strategies do you
employ to improve your memory? Discuss the
relevance of strategies that
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ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom
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com Connecting to Classroom Practices. In a one-
to two-page journal entry, write a
self-reflection. What is the relevance of this
course to best practices in the classroom? In
other words, how can an understanding of how
children think improve your teaching skills,
particularly in terms of differentiating student
needs and abilities? Do you feel that you
currently utilize an understanding of cognitive
development in your own teaching?
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ECE 353 Week 4 Discussions 1 Problem Solving And
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com Problem Solving and Reasoning. There are many
ways in which cultural differences impact
cognitive development. One of the areas in which
we see the impact relating to cultural
differences is with the development of reasoning
and problem solving skills as is discussed in
Chapter 8 of our textbook. Because our habits of
mind are influenced by our cultural and
historical circumstances, the decision- making
strategies that we seek to promote in students
reflect our own culture
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ECE 353 Week 4 Discussions 2 Relationships
Between Cognitive, Language, And Motor
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l.com Relationships Between Cognitive, Language,
and Motor Development. Cognitive, language, and
motor skills are often thought to be closely
interrelated developmental areas, because as
children develop in these domains, they appear to
demonstrate correlated developmental pathways.
For this discussion you will
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ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 1 Theories of Concept
Representation For more classes
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Representation. Identify and describe one of the
three major theories of concept representation
defining-features, probabilistic, or
theory-based. What is the mechanism of conceptual
development in your chosen theory? Provide an
example (not given in the text) that illustrates
the mechanisms of your chosen theory. How would a
child likely respond to a given scenario from the
perspective of your chosen theory?
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ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 2 False Belief Tasks For more
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Tasks. According to your text, the gold
standard that researchers use to demonstrate
understanding of belief is success on tasks that
require understanding of ones own or another
persons false belief (Siegler, 2005, pg. 318).
Young children often fail false belief tasks.
This finding has been interpreted in a number of
different ways. Give an original example of a
false belief task that could be given to a
three-year-old (do not use an example from the
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ECE 353 Week 5 Discussions 1 Cognitive
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and Learning. Formal schooling plays a large role
helping children to develop cognitively. Along
with their home and social environments,
experiences in school continue to foster
childrens development of cognitive skills and
strategies. In school, children learn new ideas,
concepts, skills and are provided with the
opportunity to engage in activities where they
can explore and experiment. For this discussion,
you will begin by reviewing one
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ECE 353 Week 5 Discussions 2 Intellectual
Development For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com Intellectual Development. Educators in the
United States public school classroom often work
with children of varying levels of ability.
Children in your classroom may have
Individualized Education Plans (IEP) that require
specific accommodations and modifications. As
part of the process of an IEP, a school
psychologist evaluates the childs intellectual
functioning using a variety of intellectual and
achievement tests. Once the IEP meeting takes
place, various
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ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 1 Planning in Problem
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m Planning in Problem Solving. Young children
often fail to plan, even when doing so would
facilitate their problem-solving performance.
Select and describe one of the five reasons that
children may fail to plan given on pages 357-358
of your text. Construct a classroom-based
scenario that illustrates your chosen reason.
What is the implication of your reason when
considering the differing needs of students while
planning for classroom instruction? What is one
strategy that
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ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 2 Learning in Context For more
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Context. Context influences childrens
performance in mathematics. This was illustrated
in Carraher and colleagues (1985) classic study
of Brazilian street vendors. Describe the method
and results of Carraher and colleagues study,
and discuss how the results support the claim
that childrens mathematical problem-solving
performance depends on context. Do you feel that
these findings can also be applied to other
academic areas? Provide a specific example of how
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ECE 353 Week 5 Final Paper For more classes
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Twelve of your text identifies seven areas of
cognitive development that have been addressed in
this book perception, language, memory,
conceptual understanding, social cognition,
problem solving, and academic skills. Table 12.1
of the chapter also identifies the eight themes
of childrens thinking, in general, that have
filtered throughout the course of this text.
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ECE 353 Week 5 Final Project Professional
Development Experience (2 PPT) For more classes
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Development Experience. Being an effective early
childhood professional requires more than a
passion for teaching or ability to work well with
children. In the first five years of life, the
most critical skills are formed by creating
synaptic connections that are key to cognitive,
social, physical, and emotional development.
Because of their developmental stage, the
environment you provide as an early educator will
set the foundation for each childs K- 12
learning
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ECE 353 Week 5 Journal Course Reflection For more
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Reflection. In a one- to two-page journal entry,
reflect on your experience in ECE353. Which
components of the course have influenced your
thinking the most in regard to cognitive
development? Identify one theory that had the
most profound impact on your thinking (either
positively or negatively) and describe why. What
effect will this have on your classroom
instruction? Your journal is an informal,
reflective piece that does not require citations
or APA format however, if you choose to use
resources, please cite them appropriately.
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