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.
This assignment will be submitted on Canvas using turnitin.com and will require you to use APA style.
Use APA style for your paper (double-spaced, 1″ margins on all sides, 12 pt. Times New Roman font).
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).
PAPER RUBRIC
POINTS AVAILABLE TO BE EARNED
Physical Growth and Development
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 tthis 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 (3-4 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