The “Issues of Particular Importance” assignment will be completed piecemeal over the course of SEDN 683. Every other session (see schedule below) you will submit your answer to one or two of the assignment’s questions as an ungraded draft. You will also revise your previous answers and include them in each subsequent draft. The full assignment will be due at the end of Session 12.
This week, use the attached assignment template to submit the first draft of your answer to Question 1.
SEDN 683 Issues of Particular Importance
“Issues of Particular Importance” Schedule:
Session 2: Submit draft of Question 1
Session 4: Submit draft of Questions 1-3 (do Questions 2 and 3 this week)
Session 6: Submit draft of Questions 1-5 (do Questions 4 and 5 this week)
Session 8: Submit draft of Questions 1-7 (do Questions 6 and 7 this week)
Session 10: Submit draft of Questions 1-9 (do Questions 8 and 9 this week)
Session 12: Submit final Issues of Particular Importance assignment
SEDN 683: Practicum II- Birth-Grade 2
Some Issues of Particular Importance in Work with Young Children
- What kinds of activities have you used to provide the young children with whom you have worked the opportunity to solve problems of various kinds?
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- What methods and materials have you used to appeal to various learning styles and modalities? Were any of them particularly effective or ineffective?
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- Which typical early childhood behaviors or problems have been more difficult for you to deal with than others? How do you plan to work on these difficulties?
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- What did you learn about creating a safe, comfortable and appropriately stimulating environment for young children that you did not know before taking your Practicum II course?
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- What did you learn about creating an emotionally safe and secure environment for young children that you did not know before taking your Practicum II course?
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- What are some of the ways you have learned to build constructive relationships with parents of young children with whom you work?
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- What are some ways you have learned to develop a caring, respectful way of relating to students?
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- What is the place and importance of socio-dramatic play at the pre-K and K level?
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- What are examples of data-supported (or data-driven) instruction which you have observed in your Practicum? How might you use data-supported instruction in your future teaching?
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