Spring - 2009Personal Child Study Paper:You will be writing a paper on your development form birth to adolescence. Discuss your physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and language development in your paper and relate your development to what the textbook states regarding children’s growth and development. Children’s development in these areas may vary greatly. Please include in the paper if you were gifted in any particular area or if you might have been more delayed in some areas. This paper will be read only by the professor, so please be as complete as possible. This paper should be approximately five typed pages (double-spaced) in length. You can include examples of drawings, writing, etc.Current Event:You will select a current event item from a newspaper or magazine that is relevant to this class. It must be about child and adolescent development/behavior. You will report on this news item orally to the class. Also, please write a small summary of the news item on a 3x5-note card to be turned into the professor.E-Mail Professor:Each student is to e-mail the professor with the name and author of the article the students choose to review. This is to check to make sure that each student can use E-mail (Eudora, Pine, etc.) to send mail via the computer.ELE 2320 ReferencesAdler, J. (1998, March 30). The tutor age. Newsweek, 46-49.Bandura, A., (1977). Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall.Begley, S. (1999, September, 27). Shaped by the life in the womb. Newsweek, 50-56. Brazelton, T. B. (1992). Touchpoints. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.EARLY CHILDHOOD. ELEMENTARY, AND MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATIONELE 2320Childhood and Early Adolescent Development Spring - 2009M/W and T/R 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.Professor: Timothy Croy, Assistant ProfessorOffice: Buzzard Hall, Room 2201Office Hours: T/W 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; T/W/R noon to 1:00 p.m. or by appointment.Phone: Office: 217/581-7890; Home/Cell: 217/254-4878E-mail: [email protected] Address: http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~twcroy/Unit Theme: Educators as creators of effective educational environments, integrating diverse students, subjects, strategies, societies, and technologies. Course Description: Concepts and issues in the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth and development of children and early adolescents: prenatal through middle school/junior high. Field based activities will be provided in conjunction with ELE 2000. Prerequisites & Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment with ELE 2000 is desirable. Course Purpose: This course will orient students to learning principles/theories and child development principles/theories and will serve as a foundationfor higher level courses. This course is intended to increase knowledge of ways children grow, develop, and learn from the time they are conceived until they have matured beyond early adolescence. The physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of children and adolescents will be explored. Appropriate activities which promote the growth of children and adolescents, and societal changes which influence their development, will also be investigated. Course Textbook:Santrock, J. W. (2007). Children (9th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Company. Teaching Model: The Information-Processing ModelsInformation-processing models emphasize ways of enhancing the human being’s innate drive to make sense of the world by acquiring and organizing data, sensing problems and generating solutions to them, and developing concepts and language for conveying them.Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Calhoun, E. (2009). Models of teaching (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson.Dispositions:Teacher candidates in the Department of EC/ELE/MLE will exhibit professional ethical practices, effective communication, sensitivityto diversity, and the ability to provide varied teaching practices evidenced in a supportive and encouraging environment. Live Text Assessment Requirement: For those classes with Live Text or Practicum- If the portfolio or Live Text requirements are rated, by the instructor, to have been completed in less than a satisfactory manner then no more than a "D" may be earned in the class regardless of the number of points earned.StandardsCourse Requirements and Demonstrated Competencies are Aligned with the Standards: - Illinois Professional Teaching Standards: (IPTS): http://www.isbe,net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24100_ipts.pdf - Illinois Core Technology Standards: (ICTS): http://www.isbe,net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24100_coretechnology.pdf - Illinois Core Language Arts Standards: (ICLAS): http://www.isbe,net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24100_corelangarts_std.pdf - National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC): http://www/naeyc.org/faculty/pdf/2001.pdf (actual standards start on page 11) - Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI): http://ncate.org/ProgramStandards/ACEI/ACEIstandards.doc Outcomes specific to ELE 2320: - The student will gain a better understanding and practice higher order and critical thinking. - The student will strive to develop their intellectual, social, ethical, and moral skills and behavior. - The student will understand the uniqueness of individuals, recognizing the characteristics of culturally pluralistic and “at risk” populations, and foster appreciation of those differences. - Through modeling by the professor, the student will learn to recognize the cognitive processes associated with learning. Revised November, 2008Course Core Requirements Demonstrated Competencies Aligned StandardsArticle Review Performance includes analyzing professional articles and their implication to the teaching profession. Students’ writings will be evaluated by a rubric. IPTS 2, 7 ICTS 1A, 2A, 2E, 5B, 7 ICLAS 1, 2, 3, 5 NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4c ACEI 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 Dispositions:PEP, EC, SDECurrent Event Performance includes analyzing current information as presented by the media and their influence on education. IPTS 2, 7, 11 ICTS 2E, 4, 7 ICLAS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 NAEYC 3, 4a, 4c ACEI 3.1, 3.5 Dispositions:PEP, EC, SDEPersonal Child Study Paper The students will gain a better understanding of the developmental needs of their future students by examining their own developmental background. IPTS 2, 7 ICTS 1A, 2A ICLAS 3 NAEYC 3, 4a, 4c ACEI 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5 Dispositions: ECTechnology Integration Performance includes knowledge, use, and application of technology tools in
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