What are some examples of the following changes in human development?
Quantitative (continuous) change
Qualitative (discontinuous) change
Both quantitative and qualitative change
How might Bandura's social learning theory be used in an argument concerning limiting children's exposure to violent television and videogames?
Based on the Piaget's cognitive development theory, explain how children in the preoperational stage and children in the concrete operational stage differently understand the concept, "conservation." Conservation is the understanding that quantities such as number, weight, volume, or area stay the same even when their appearances change.
List five cultural tools or funds of knowledge that elementary school children in your city or state might develop or take advantage of and explain why the funds of knowledge you list are expected to be developed.
Provide one example of a teacher who is working in a zone of proximal development (ZPD) with a 5 year-old child in free play time. This child mostly demonstrates solitary-functional play style. In order to help this child explore other types of play, what scaffolding
techniques would the teacher be using? As a result of the scaffolding, what would this child accomplish?
Suppose you are a teacher of a 5thgrade class. In order to maximize students' learning in mathematics and also to improve your practices, how would you utilize the following assessment methods for your students' math learning? : norm-referenced assessment, criterion-referenced assessment, formative assessment , summative assessment, and portfolio assessment.
Infants and toddlers care and education has been misunderstood as "just feeding, changing diapers, and giving naps." However, research findings of human brain development enlighten us how infants and toddlers care should be evaluated, planned and implemented. Suppose you are an invited speaker for a seminar to present how infants and toddlers should be cared for or educated based on human brain research findings. What can be your three key ideas of the presentation to the educational practitioners, administrators, and policy makers?
Suppose you are a teacher of a preprimary school class. In your class, there is a child who has immigrated from another country. The child's parents refuse to send their child to ESL (English as a Second Language) class due to their belief that learning English may interfere with his/her native language acquisition. How would you discuss this issue with the parents using the following concepts?:
Critical period, plasticity of brain organization, sensitive period, and bilingualism.
Language development can be understood by developing five linguistic competencies in general. Define each category and provide one scaffolding technique to promote each competency.
Sematic development
Syntactic development
Listening skills development
Speaking skills development
Pragmatics development
Explain Piaget's three types of knowledge using one example for each categor