- The Cycle of Learning. Refer to Chapter 2 Figure 2.7 in your text . Think of something you will teach your students to do. Describe how you think the children will proceed through the cycle of learning for that particular skill. Use the chart to display each phase.
- Gather the early childhood learning standards for your state. Share the resource that you used to find them. List three standards that you think will be beneficial for the children with whom you will be working. Explain why these standards are essential in early childhood curriculum development.
Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 300-400 words in length
TABLE 2.7 Types of Questions and Examples
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You Plan to Enhance Children’s Ability to: |
Sample Questions |
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Observe |
What do you see/hear/smell/taste/feel? |
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Reconstruct previous experiences |
What do you remember about the people at the pizza place? What happened the last time we put the rock in the sunshine? |
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Relate cause and effect |
What can you do to make it happen? What happens when/if you do? |
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Predict |
What do you think will happen next? |
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Evaluate |
What happened? You thought_____would happen? How did that compare with what actually happened? Which poem is your favorite? Why? How will you know the art area is clean enough? |
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Generalize |
Now that you saw what we found when we cut open the lemon, what do you think we will find when we cut open this orange? |
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Compare |
How are they alike/different? Which things go together? |
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Reason |
How did you decide those went together? |
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Discriminate among objects and events |
Which one does not belong? Which one is not an oak tree? |
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Solve problems |
What can we do to find out how many marbles are in the jar? |
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Quantify |
How many? How long? How far? |
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Propose alternatives |
How else could you group these objects? |
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Utilize factual knowledge |
Where do you suppose we could find a worm at this time of year? |
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Become aware of their thinking processes |
How did you know . . . ? What made you decide . . . ? |
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Make decisions |
What do you think we should do now____? |
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Communicate ideas |
How can you show/remember/share with others what you did/learned? |
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