You will write a 3-4-page reflection paper summarizing, analyzing, and relating your experiences in early childhood to developmental theories and concepts presented in class.
will require you to use APA style.
It’s hard for grownups to imagine themselves as little children or what their life was like then (let alone remember).
You might have to ask a parent or relative for some help remembering that time period.
Feel free to include other relevant information or stories about yourself.
As you reflect back or find out about your life as a young child, consider how those early days might have influenced your development in all of the areas listed in the rubric below-physical growth and development, cognitive and learning development, personality and social development and consider all the contexts of development discussed in your textbook.
Make sure to include how your preschool years impacted your development in these areas and how it has impacted who you are today.
Utilize at least 2 peer-reviewed scholarly references to support your reflections on how your early experiences have impacted your development and cite them appropriately using APA style (you may use your book as one of the references).
Use APA style for your paper (double-spaced, 1″ margins on all sides, 12 pt. Times New Roman font).
You do not need an abstract but do include a “Running head”.
Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length not including the cover page (name, title of the paper, course name, college name and date or the reference page which should be included at the end).
15 points available for addressing your physical development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider changes to the body, milestones, gross and fine motor skills, brain development, and factors that affect physical growth. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your physical development in preschool might impact you now.
Cognitive and Language Development
15 points available for addressing your cognitive and language development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider Piaget’s preoperational stage, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, and information-processing theory. Discuss your development related to attention, memory, intelligence and learning, language development and other factors that may have impacted this development such as education and SES. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your cognitive and language development in preschool might impact you now.
Personality and Social Development
15 points available for addressing your personality and social development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider emotional development, temperament, attachment, self and social understanding, self-esteem, identity development, social problem solving, friendships and play, moral development and aggression, genders stereotypes, gender roles and development of a gender identity at this age. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your personality and social development in preschool might impact you now.
Use of APA Style, following guidelines for paper, grammar and spelling
15 points total
-4 points total for correct length of paper (2-4 pages) of text writing + 1 cover page and 1 reference page
-4 for in-text citations (minimum 1 used for each source)
-3 points for appropriate grammar and spelling
-2 for APA sources correctly cited on Reference Page
-2 for correct APA style used throughout paper
