Early Childhood: Plan Assignment

Overview

This assignment serves as the planning portion of the Early Childhood: Project Assignment you will complete later in the course. There are many teaching strategies with practical classroom applications for early childhood classrooms. For this assignment, you will select a strategy you would like to explore for your project and identify supporting resources and corresponding standards.

Instructions

1. From the Project Options detailed below, select the type of project you would like to complete for the Early Childhood: Project Assignment.

2. Using the Early Childhood: Plan Template provided with this assignment, provide the following information:

a. The project option you have chosen.

b. Three or more scholarly sources you plan to use when completing your project, formatted according to current APA guidelines for references. Each source should be current within the past five years, relevant to Early Childhood Education and the topic you have chosen, and scholarly in nature. An example of a scholarly source is a peer-reviewed journal article retrieved from Jerry Falwell Library.

i. Note: if you choose either the Multicultural Infusion or Curriculum option for your project, references to the children’s books you select should be included in addition to the three scholarly resources required.

c. A reference to the course textbook formatted according to current APA formatting guidelines.

d. Any NAEYC Standards applicable to the concepts of the project type you have chosen. See the link provided with this assignment.

e. All five sources (three scholarly sources, the course textbook, plus any NAEYC Standards) require a one-paragraph description of each source stating one detail of the importance of each source and one detail on how it will be used in the Early Childhood: Project Assignment.

f. All five sources should be cited and referenced using current APA guidelines.

3. Review the provided Early Childhood: Plan Sample and Early Childhood: Plan Grading Rubric for more details.

Project Options

· Program Type: As an early childhood professional, you will need to make decisions on what to teach and how to teach it. For this project option, using your imagination, you will describe your early childhood classroom setting and then choose either the Montessori, High Scope, Reggio Emilia, Bank Street, Howard Gardner, or Creative Curriculum program to explain how you would implement this program type/curriculum in your classroom. As a Christian educator, you will also consider how you would incorporate Biblical knowledge, Christian principles, or character development into your program. You will highlight the unique aspects and some specific activities of the program you would include in your program. Thoughtful considerations of how children with special needs would adapt to your program choice are to be included.

· Multicultural Infusion: For this project option, you will select five children’s books featuring multicultural content. You will decide how you would use these materials to promote awareness and acceptance of diversity throughout the entire curricular year. You will also design and include at least one application activity and one Biblical integration for each book.

· Family Involvement: For this project option, you will develop a family involvement calendar for your preschool program. This will include:

· Writing objectives for the program.

· Developing at least one specific activity each month that will involve families and provide services to them with a biblical principle tied into each month’s activity.

· A detailed plan of how you might involve fathers, language-minority families, and families of children with disabilities.

· Curriculum: For this project option, you will choose an age group and theme and develop activities around a children’s book that covers concepts of Math, Language Arts, Science, physical activity, Bible, Music, and Art. The book you choose must be within the past seven years. You will include adaptations for children with special needs.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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