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• ECE 332 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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• Benefits of Preschool. As an early childhood
  professional, you will often be asked questions
  from parents and community members regarding the
  benefits of sending their children to preschool.
  After reading Chapter 1 and drawing from your
  experience, discuss the benefits of a preschool
  education

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• ECE 332 Week 1 Assignment Theory Summary (Ash
  Course)
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• Theory Summary. Using the concept summary in
  Chapter 2 of the required text, fill in the
  blanks for each of the developmental theories in
  the table provided. (This table can be accessed
  in the online course.) Provide examples from your
  own experience or the textbook in the last
  column. These examples can be written or can be
  an image, illustration, or case scenario. In the
  last row, describe your ideal

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• ECE 332 Week 1 DQ 1 Benefits of Preschool (Ash
  Course)
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• Benefits of Preschool. As an early childhood
  professional, you will often be asked questions
  from parents and community members regarding the
  benefits of sending their children to preschool.
  After reading Chapter 1 and drawing from your
  experience, discuss the benefits of a preschool
  education

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• ECE 332 Week 1 DQ 2 Theory and Behavior (Ash
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• Theory and Behavior. After reading Chapters 1 and
  2 select a Theorist whose work most closely
  aligns with your thoughts regarding early
  development. Describe the theorists work and
  discuss how their work aligns with your own
  understanding and beliefs.

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• ECE 332 Week 2 DQ 1 Nature vs. Nurture (Ash
  Course)
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• Nature vs. Nurture. The debate concerning the
  influence of inherited traits and abilities
  compared to the influence of environment on human
  development has been argued for decades. The
  required reading this week provides information
  on the extent of which human development and
  behavior is the result of nature (heredity) and
  of nurture (environmental influences).
• In this discussion you will debate nature vs.
  nurture. Below is your assigned debate grouping
  by the first letter of your last name

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• ECE 332 Week 2 DQ 2 Conception to Birth (Ash
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• Conception to Birth. There are three major stages
  from conception to birth. They are the germinal
  stage (first two weeks following conception) the
  embryonic stage (until the end of the eighth
  week) and the fetal stage (until birth).
  Complete a table, like the one below, making sure
  to identify the development that happens in each
  stage and how the development is affected by
  outside influences,

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• ECE 332 Week 2 Journal Point of View (Ash Course)
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• Point of View. You are a parent of a child who
  has a serious peanut allergy. You are meeting
  with your childs new teacher to explain this
  allergy and what specific needs your child has.
  Your goal for this meeting is to ensure your
  childs comfort and safety in the classroom by
  communicating your expectations to the teacher.
• For your journal entry, reflect on the following
  questions

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• ECE 332 Week 3 Assignment Developmental
  Milestones (Ash Course)
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• Developmental Milestones. The purpose of this
  assignment is to creatively demonstrate an
  understanding of infant developmental milestones
  as they pertain to cognition, motor skills,
  sensation, and perception. Using information from
  Chapter 5 of your text, write a short story about
  a childs journey from birth to age 1. This can
  be a fictional child, or can be based on a real
  child. The story should be three to five pages in
  addition to the title page and the reference
  page. Use at least one reference in addition to
  your text. Your paper

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• ECE 332 Week 3 DQ 1 Early Language Development
  (Ash Course)
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• Early Language Development. Take a moment to
  watch the video, A Place of Our Own Early
  Academics Part 1. After reading about early
  language development in Chapter 5 of your text
  and watching the video, describe a learning
  center that would promote early language
  development. Your description must include the
  learning objective of the center, the materials
  provided, and step-by-step instructions for
  implementation of the activity. Make sure to
  include the specific areas of language that the
  center targets, the approach you will be using to
  introduce this center, and methods for assessing
  students development

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• ECE 332 Week 3 DQ 2 Optimal Brain Development
  (Ash Course)
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• Optimal Brain Development. The human brain is
  highly dependent on experiences for development.
  Discuss your role as a teacher or caregiver in a
  childs life in terms of promoting optimal brain
  development through exposure to various
  experiences. Give three examples of appropriate
  stimulation (activities) you can employ in the
  classroom or daycarecenter to promote learning.
  How can you include activities outside the
  classroom that will reinforce the learning? How
  can you involve the parents and community
  resources (i.e., fieldtrips)? Lastly, include
  information on a field trip you could take your
  class on in your local area that would extend the
  learning that you included in one of your sample
  activities. Relate experiences from your own
  schooling such as field trips, community

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• ECE 332 Week 4 DQ 1 Gender Development (Ash
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• Gender Development. Gender roles are the
  combination of attitudes, behaviors, and
  personality characteristics that a culture
  considers appropriate for an individuals
  anatomical sex. Psychologists have proposed a
  number of theories to explain gender typing
  (LeFrancois, 2012)

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• ECE 332 Week 4 DQ 2 Brain Development (Ash
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• Brain Development. Brain-based education suggests
  that physical exercise is important for brain
  development. Research has shown that in addition
  to physical exercise, other activities focus on
  stimulating the social development and
  intellectual development of young children.
• Gerry, who is still incapable of jumping with
  both feet, may not be invited to join in a game
  of jump rope. This is an example of how a childs
  individual characteristics (motor skills in this
  case) can affect context (social environment) and
  influence development (LeFrancois, 2012).

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• ECE 332 Week 5 DQ 1 The Importance of Play (Ash
  Course)
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• The Importance of Play. Children learn as they
  play and, while playing, they learn how to learn.
  Take a moment to read the article The Importance
  of Play Activities for Children. Then, think
  about the childhood games that you played. Share
  your favorite playtime activity with your
  classmates and explain why it was your favorite.
  Describe what you learned from your play and how
  it enhanced your development as a child. Using
  your own experience with play and the information
  in the reading, also describe five takeaways from
  each article that you will use to support play and

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• ECE 332 Week 5 DQ 2 Life (Ash Course)
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• Life. Life as we know it will change for the next
  generation, and those changes must be accounted
  for in child development. Today, television and
  media, the changing nuclear family, and new
  parenting styles play a large part in the life of
  a child. Research tells us that viewing violent
  television programs or playing violence-themed
  games contributes to increased aggressiveness in
  children. We also know that the break-up of the
  nuclear family and super-parenting can have
  detrimental effects on a childs emotional and
  social

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• ECE 332 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash Course)
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• For the Final Project, you will demonstrate your
  understanding of the material in this course by
  developing a classroom plan for either an
  infant/toddler childcare facility or for a
  preschool classroom, based on Piagets Stage
  Theory. For this project, include
• a. Summarize Piagets Stage Theory in your own
  words.
• b. Identify and describe the developmental
  characteristics of the selected age group.

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