Summary of 12/2/10 Class

Returned corrected drafts to students. Individual comments
Whole Class discussion of Resume Drafts

Here is a summary of common Problems and Solutions

Objectives should be short: and Don’t say “I want…”

Education: Dates are optional and don’t list school before High School.

Work Experience- list dates or date ranges. Be specific regarding your title or previous titles and the ages of children you worked with. Be specific about the trainings you have attended.

“Social and Emotional development”

·             CPR Training  January 2010

·             MANDATED REPORTER TRAINING, January 2010

Job Duties- Be very specific

Designed lesson plans
Created Play-Do art lessons to teach counting
Wrote my own songs to teach math
Guided field trips

Skills

Ability to multitask
Ability to make children feel comfortable
Make connections easily with children

General tip: Keep it Formal. Don’t say: kids, babies or “I love to work with children”

 Hobbies or Interests

Be specific and tie it to work. Love to go running three times a week
Early Childhood Education Courses: Completed 9 units

·             ECE 210

·             ECE 210 (in progress)

Group Work: Students divided into groups of 2-3. Talked about life experiences that might translate well as skills in a Resume.  They wrote 5 examples. One example from each group was shared with the whole class. Some examples follow:

I have worked for three years providing excellent customer service.
Work in high paced environment providing customer service to diverse clientele.
Experience working with children with special needs.  
Work as Nanny in at these locations with these families


Homework: complete a typed final draft of your resume

Summary of Class on 11/18/10

Instructor demonstrated another example of how to read in an engaging manner to an audience of  preschoolers.

Whole class review of common past tense verbs

In Class writing assignments:

What do you do every morning?

What did you do last weekend?


Whole class discussion of resume types and uses.
Emphasis on different convention of pronoun use and punctuation (often opposite to what has been taught this semester)

Homework: Create a draft of your own Resume

Summary of Class on 11/12/10

Instructor returned corrected paragraphs and whole class discussion/review of necessary aspect of a paragraph.
Introductions (and paragraph stays on this topic)
Specific facts (on same topic). Sentences must have punctuation.
Stays in chronological order.
Has an definite ending
Retains the look of a paragraph (indented and no extra spaces or line returns after sentences)

Individual in class work: Students rewrote their paragraphs and turned into the teacher.

In class paragraph writing assignment. "What are three things you did this morning?

Quiz: from reading of text: pages 139 to 141

1 Did the text focus on positive or negative modeling?
2 How is punishment different then negative reinforcement
3 Write 1 or 2 sentences on something you learned from the reading
4 Write a paragraph on "What are three things you learned in professor Palma's class?"

Homework:
Read text pages 143 to 148 on Piaget

Summary of Class on 11/4/10

Review of paragraph requirements:

In class writing assignment: "What did you do yesterday?

Discussion of Erikson's 4th stage of development

Group activity:

Form groups of 3 to 4 students and describe how to help different age children with assigned activities according to Erikson's insight regarding their stages.

Practice Quiz

Homework: Read text: pages 139 to 141 be ready for quiz

Class on 10/21/10

Students reviewed their corrected homeworks. Students took a practice spelling test on the following words:
1. innate
2. environment
3. argument
4. pattern
5. assertive
6. maturation
7. emphasize
8. theory
9. development
10. quantitative

Small group discussion of Erikson's stages
Whole group reporting on the essence of each stage

Children's literature and finding vocabulary.

Homework: re read the description of Erikson's Stage 4 (page 137)
Write a paragraph about a child you know in ths stage or from a personal memory or yourself in this important developmental stage.

Class on 10/21/10

 Excerpt on Erikson's Theory,

           Play is a critical part of children's total development. Most schools for children under six have periods of time allotted for play called "choice time" or "free play." Erikson supports these ideas explicitly by stating that the senses of autonomy and of initative are developed mainly through social and fantasy play. He suggsst that child's play is "the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experiences by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning...To 'play it out' in play is the most natural self-healing measure childhood affords" (Erickson, 1964).

Class on 10/14/10

Class was cancelled (Garth was sick) but the homework for next class is below:

HOMEWORK:

1. Please make sure your homework that was due for 10/14 is typed. Either on paper or in an email to me.

2. Read "Applying Erikson's Theory to Work with Children" (end of page 137 to start of page 138). Re- read the paragraph that begins "Play is a critical part..." Read it in Spanish too. Now write out the entire paragraph (in English) but use as many of your own words as possible. For example, the first sentence could become, "Playing is an important part of a child's full growth." You can use some of the same words but the object is to re-write the paragraph in a way that it "becomes" yours. Use a dictionary or thesaurus when necessary.