Final Reflection Initially, I had no idea what this course was about. From its title, I gathered that it would teach us how to help children develop social skills. During the summer, I decided to enroll in it because it was the last bridge course that I needed to take, in order to move onto Miami Dade College’s bachelor program. Yet, I had no idea how many great strategies I would learn and how many of my beliefs about education and children would change.
Professional Growth It is easy to sit in a class as a Professor gives a lecture and to regurgitate the information on assignments; however, the real challenge is internalizing the information and applying it to the real world. The great part of this course was that we were given specific
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“Stress can interfere with learning, but also-under the right circumstances-stress can contribute to positive development” (Galinsky, Sprague, O’Donnell, & Dombro, 2006, p. 1) This topic was significant to me because I learned about the levels of stress, its effects, and copying strategies. The three levels of stress are positive, tolerable, and toxic. Reading this chapter, helped me understand that positive stress is not harmful and is necessary because it prepares children for adulthood. On the other hand, toxic stress can affect children’s growth, attention, and ability to remember things. I learned strategies that can help children when they are under stress, such as the lazy cat, as well as strategies that can be done before the children become fully stressed, such as adding quiet times to the daily …show more content…
Since they are connected, difficulties in one area affects the other areas. A child needs all three areas to maximize a learning opportunity. To me, this was important to learn because it helped me understand that a smart child cannot be an effective learner if he/she had emotional turmoil. Reading this chapter, helped me learned different ways to promote SEI. For example, watching children to see what makes them lights up and then creating activities with these things to engage them socially, emotionally, and intellectually.
Learn More: Creating Communities of Learning
By reading the last chapter, I learned that one way to expand one’s knowledge on teaching and young children is by becoming part of local or online learning community. Before reading this chapter, I had no idea that learning communities existed. I would like to learn more about specific learning communities in Miami and how to join them. Joining a learning community would give me the opportunity to make connections with other, share ideas, and reflect on my experience with others.
NAEYC’s Ethical and Professional
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Early childhood intervention is essential to the successful educational attainment of the world’s future citizens, educators, and leaders. To assure the success of our future leaders, the Sociocultural Theory may be a resource teachers may want to investigate and implement (Turuk, 2008, p 224). Vygotsky stressed the importance of children having access to teachers and a stimulating educational environment considering children’s principal mode of learning was interacting with others. Children, when exposed to others, will thrive, cognitively, emotionally, nor
The majority of brain development occurs during the first few years of life. Although genetics provide the basic blueprint for the brain, one’s experiences lay the foundation for future interactions, health, learning, and behavior. Developing the capacity and resources to cope with stress is a significant part of a child’s early development (Felitti et al., 1998 and Anda et al., 2006).
...ideas and how each one of them will impact our classroom not only as an individual member of our room. Every one had an opportunity to contribute and express their thinking without making fun. By doing this activity the students mastered the activity without conflict and/or put-downs. According to T. Tamara “Teachers who apply psychosocial development in the classrooms create an environment where each child feels appreciated and is comfortable with learning new things and building relationships with peers without fear” (Tamara, 2010).
Stress can come from any event or thought that makes us feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. All of us experience stress and usually cope with it well. Stress is an omnipresent part of life and is a reaction to external stimuli that disturb our physical or mental equilibrium. It is a system in our body that helps us to deal with real danger and / or perform at our best. Any event or happening that induces stress is called stressor.
Stress has various effects on the body, both psychological and physiological. Stress can have positive effects on the body and can be beneficial, but frequent stress will eventually cause negative effects on the body.
According to the American Institute of Stress, stress can be defined as an individual’s response, physical, mental or emotional, to an event that causes a demand for change (Selye, 1936). For athletes, that demand for change can be caused by an injury, which ultimately can have a significant impact on overall stress levels. While a physical injury can cause psychological stress, mental trauma can similarly affect an athlete physically. An athlete’s psychological stability has a great affect on an athlete’s susceptibility to pain and can alter the response to and recovery from an injury (Ahern, 1997).
I observed Mrs. Linscott’s classroom with three year olds at the East Lansing Child Development Laboratory. Along with the children, there were a few adults to help in the class. I focused on seven main things while observing the children. First, I focused on one child for 15 minutes and took note of their motor, language, and social development. The second thing I observed was how the adults in the classroom interacted with the children. Third, I payed attention to the children’s emotional development. Next, I took notes on the children’s communication and language skills. I also observed the children’s behavior from a Piagetian perspective. Then, I observed how the children’s learning could be shaped by the interactions with the adults.
It examines the causes that made this course relevant, mentioning why these skills haven’t been learned already and why at a university level they aren’t still taught implicitly by college life.
What is the most important concept that you learned in this class? Write this for a reader who is unfamiliar with the concept.
Stress is defined in the dictionary as “state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life”. Everyone encounters stress in their life caused by many different variables in life and we all cope with in different ways. The way one copes with the stress is how it can affect our body. Some take to working out, eating healthy, take breaks from what is stressing you out and getting plenty of sleep which are good ways to cope with it. Some take to other coping mechanisms that are not very great for the body. Some examples are stress eating, abuse of drugs and alcohol, bottling up the stress, and depression. These bad methods can cause serious damage to one’s health on the body.
Stress is something that everyone has to deal with in life, whether it is good or bad stress. Stress management techniques are a great way to deal with stress. Some of the stress management techniques that I learned from this course are prioritization, scheduling, and execution. Using these techniques has effectively helped me deal with my own stress. When it comes to dealing with stress I still have many strengths and weaknesses that I will explain. Some stressors I have in my life that I will discuss are psychointrapersonal, social, life events, and daily hassles. Next, I will give my opinion on my post-course survey, and compare and contrast it to my pre-course survey scores. Finally, I will explain my last goals for this stress management course.
Stress is in our everyday lives. We allow things such as the way we live, school, work, family, relationships etc to stress us out. Some people deal with stress way different from others. Some may know how to cope with stress better than others. We allow stress to take a major toll over our lives when we are suppose to fight it, but a lot of people can’t do that. Stress makes you act and do things that are not like yourself. Stress is a negative word; it comes in all different shapes and forms.
“From kindergarten through high school, the causes of childhood stress are numerous” (Wilde). With standardized testing commencing in the 1st grade in most states, the teachers send study guides and work home for the students to practice. A lot of the time teachers don’t have enough time to cover all the material on the state tests, so the child is left with a study guide not too sure about all of the information on it. The child usually then lays in bed and starts to worry about not finishing their study guide completely and wondering if they will even pass the test the next day! When a child asks for help from a parent, sometimes the parent doesn’t remember the data that was once taught to them in elementary school.
Stress is an ongoing dilemma that occurs in each and everyone’s life. It is a factor that is undoubtedly a part of daily living. Due to the trivial problems that occur in people’s daily lives massive amounts of stress can arise. People perceive and manage stress in many different ways. The causes and effects of stress are numerous and one’s ability to manage stress is vital in maintaining healthy living.