Child Development Birth to 5:
Using Knowledge to Inform Teaching
Social Development Homework Assignment
Objective: In-depth examination of one child’s Social
Development
Instructions: In your Essential Area Journaling in Social
Development, you’ve focused on individual children in your classroom. For this assignment, you will select one of
those children as the focus of a broader look at their Social Development.
Part 1: Child Introduction
Using objective language, describe the selected child,
including information about individual characteristics (e.g., age, gender,
special abilities, etc.) and any relevant family or school history.
Part 2: Essential Areas
Provide a summary and analysis of the selected child’s
Social Development in each essential area using concepts and information from
the course sessions and materials (for example, attachment theory and stages of
play). Your summary should include descriptions of objective, observed
behavior, and you should provide evidence such as video clips, work samples, or
anecdotal notes to support your descriptions.
Your analysis will include your interpretations of this
child’s social development, which will include:
• Explaining
what this child’s skills and behaviors tell you about his or her developmental
level (i.e., is it at, above, or below expectations for this age) and why.
• Identifying
how this child’s development is unique (i.e., somewhat different from other
children’s) and what individual characteristics and/or environmental factors
might contribute to these differences.
• Discussing
how this child’s Social Development is interconnected, including how the
essential areas of development may affect one another and how other domains of
development could be connected.
Note: You will provide/upload evidence to support your
summary and analysis (for example, video clips, work samples, anecdotal notes).
Part 2a: Essential Area 1: Relationships with Adults
Summary:
Analysis:
Evidence:
Part 2b: Essential Area 2: Relationships with Peers
Summary:
Analysis:
Evidence:
Part 2c: Essential Area 3: Sense of Identity
Summary:
Analysis:
Evidence:
Part 3: Proposed Support Plan
Choose one essential area in which this child may need some
additional support, and outline a short plan to support his or her development
in this area. The plan should refer to the analysis and evidence you provided
in Part 2 and should explain how the plan will support the child’s development.
Part 3a: Identify selected essential area and state the
overall goal for your Support Plan
Part 3b: Describe steps required to implement Support Plan,
as well as any necessary resources
Part 3c: Describe the impact that the Support Plan will have
on this child’s Social Development
Part 4 (to be completed by Midterm): Implementation
Using instructor feedback, make any necessary changes to
your Support Plan and implement it in your classroom. Then, reflect on implementation
using information from the course to describe any impact that the Support Plan
has had on the child’s Social Development.
Possible reflection questions:
• What was
the child’s response to the Support Plan?
• Do you
believe that the Support Plan has impacted the child’s Social Development?
How/why?
• What did
the child’s response to the Support Plan tell you about their Social
• Development
in this area?
• How did
implementation of the Support Plan go in your classroom?
Were there any issues/concerns with implementing the Support
Plan?
Submit Assignment
Save changes in the assignment and submit as a file with
your last name in the file name.
Assignment Rubric
Accomplished
Emerging
Developing
Social Development Homework The
assignment is complete and handed in on time. Participant demonstrates an
understanding of Social Development within summaries and analyses. Participant identifies appropriate strategies
learned in this course for support plan. Participant’s responses show in-depth
comprehension of Social Development and strategies to support it. The assignment is complete and handed in on
time. Participant demonstrates some understanding of Social Development within
summaries and analyses. Participant
identifies appropriate strategies learned in this course for support plan, but
may exhibit some minor misunderstandings that indicate a need for further
development.
The
assignment is incomplete or may be late. Participant demonstrates minimal
understanding of Social Development within summaries, analyses, and support
plan. Responses reflect a lack of
substantial understanding, or the responses are too short to demonstrate depth
of knowledge.
Instructor’s Comments
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