...Early Childhood Guide Name Institution Planning a guide to early childhood program development is essential to serve as a tool for improving and developing high quality early childhood programs. It is essential for each childhood education setting to plan its program so as to facilitate achievements of the goals. Planning a curriculum should be a continuous process which involves identifying needs and capabilities of children, observation, provision of necessary resources, evaluation and assessment. To ensure that the curriculum goals are realized, childhood programs should be planned to offer sufficient learning experience for the children. A good plan usually starts from observing the children’s interests, needs, strength and behaviors. A good plan should focus on the environment, the setting and group of children or individuals. The focus could also be on a the routine, such as planning for activities and mealtime. A plan helps teachers working in early childhood education to understand what the children in their centers are learning and how learning happens. Teachers must accomplish some goals so as to create an effective learning environment. Goals refers to the competencies that children are expected to develop. Some of the goals that teachers should accomplish childhood programs, examples of specific goals are; developing a sense of trust and security, think critically, increase self-confidence, develop a nurturing and positive relationship with peers and the children...
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...Children Obesity Presentation Welcome to this presentation on childhood obesity, a very vulnerable population. In the next 20 minutes, based on the health issue of childhood obesity that is identified in the selected community setting from the Neighborhood, the team will introduce an innovative program that will target this major health issue and improve the health of this population. In this presentation, the Healthy People 2020 indicator will be referred as it relates to childhood obesity and contributes to the nursing role. The statistics information and the risk factors associated with childhood obesity will be presented. The team will also provide information that demonstrates the seriousness of this childhood health issue and the need for assistance from the State Health Department to develop an educational program to increase the public awareness in children obesity. With the efficient financial assistance, the community nurses will implement this educational program. The nurses will also evaluate the outcome and make a necessary improvement to this educational program. Jenna’s case as presented by the Neighborhood – Pearson Health Science (2011) is that Jenna is an overweight 14-year-old girl with type 2 diabetes. She lives with her mother, sister, and younger brother because her father left her when she was young and rarely showed up in her life. Her mother is busy with two jobs and a few evening work. Her younger brother has learning disability and has had problems...
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...Yalung, Jerille B. P-302 January 22, 2015 1. Describe the counselor’s role in the therapeutic process and how did the counselor assume this role? There are several therapeutic roles a counselor must play in order for the psychoanalytic therapy be successful. In the video presented, the counselor successfully builds rapport to her client. This is evident at the beginning of the video presentation because the client found it easy to disclose why she kept on hurting herself for she felt that she can talk freely without being judged. Throughout the video, the counselor evidently endorsed therapeutic transference where the clients transferred thoughts and feelings that are connected to the influential figures in her life onto the therapist. The counselor asked her client what is her situation at home and how do she get along with her step-father. She also made the client recall the days her interaction with her biological father. This is important in psychoanalytic therapy because it help the client understand her past and how event from her early life could be affecting her now. The counselor know how to just listen, when to comment, and when to ask further questions. As psychoanalyst, the counselor assume during the interview that her client’s irrational drives specifically her self-injury are rooted in her unconscious, she also assume that this irrational drive are cause by latent disturbances, and the client’s concerns are due to unresolved issues during her developmental...
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...Yalung, Jerille B. P-302 January 22, 2015 1. Describe the counselor’s role in the therapeutic process and how did the counselor assume this role? There are several therapeutic roles a counselor must play in order for the psychoanalytic therapy be successful. In the video presented, the counselor successfully builds rapport to her client. This is evident at the beginning of the video presentation because the client found it easy to disclose why she kept on hurting herself for she felt that she can talk freely without being judged. Throughout the video, the counselor evidently endorsed therapeutic transference where the clients transferred thoughts and feelings that are connected to the influential figures in her life onto the therapist. The counselor asked her client what is her situation at home and how do she get along with her step-father. She also made the client recall the days her interaction with her biological father. This is important in psychoanalytic therapy because it help the client understand her past and how event from her early life could be affecting her now. The counselor know how to just listen, when to comment, and when to ask further questions. As psychoanalyst, the counselor assume during the interview that her client’s irrational drives specifically her self-injury are rooted in her unconscious, she also assume that this irrational drive are cause by latent disturbances, and the client’s concerns are due to unresolved issues during her developmental...
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...Problem Definition The push to implement one of the country’s most comprehensive competitive food bills came about because in 2001-2002 over 25 percent of the students in the Oregon school system were overweight. Childhood obesity is an epidemic in America as children consume more foods that are high in calories and sugars. In many cases these foods do not provide a significant amount of the child’s daily required nutrients. Therefore, not only in the food unhealthy, it is full of empty calories. Another reason behind the rise in obesity is the increasingly sedentary lifestyles that many children engage in. Childhood obesity can cause several health issues including, (1) high cholesterol and blood pressure which increases the risk for heart...
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...Community Health C229 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! CKA Task 1 Sharon Wiggins Western Governors University ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Community Health C229 ! ! Date Spent ! ! 6/19/15 ! 6/19/15 ! 6/19/15 ! 6/29-7/2 ! 7/11/15 1200-1700 ! 8/30/15 1100-1600 ! 9/4/15 1100-1200 ! ! 9/9-10/15 0800-1700 0800-1200 ! ! Fieldwork Study Activity Location and Contact Time Windshield Survey Dakota County, Minnesota 10 Cultural Survey Dakota County, Minnesota 5 Scavenger Hunt Dakota County, Minnesota 10 Childhood Obesity attended conference, interviewed other attendees and exhibitors 8757 Rio San Diego Dr, San Diego, CA 92108 (619)692-3800 30 Festival of Farms attended festival interview with community members and exhibitors Lakeside Prairie Farm 20503 180th Ave Barrett, MN 56311 320-492-2526 5 Minnesota State Fair attended & interviews and surveys 1265 Snelling Ave St Paul, MN 55108 (651) 288-4400 5 Dr Koch interviewed Dr. Koch Physician Fairview Ridges Clinic 303 E Nicollet Blvd # 160 Burnsville, MN 55337 (952) 460-4000 1 Communities for Health attended conference, interviewed other attendees, exhibitors Duluth Convention Center 350 Harbor Dr Duluth, MN 55802 (218) 722-5573 12 1 Community Health C229 ! 9/12/15 1200-1500 ! ! 9/18/15 0800-1200 ! 9/19/15 0800-1300 Farm Fest attended, interviewed ...
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...The nature of childhood, and changes in the status of children in the family and society key ideas 1) Industrialisation and changes to childhood Pre-industrial Britain had no concept of childhood - Everyone was held responsible for actions and Tudor law stated that a 7 year old can be hanged After industrialisation, these beliefs stayed within the working class children were an economic asset. Middle class families saw a decline in infant mortality rates and so family sizes declined. In the 19th century, children were banned from working in mines. 2) 20th century childhood A child-centered society emerged at this time due to improvements in living standards and nutrition thus leading to a decrease in infant mortality rates. Children also became an expensive business as parents began to favour consumption over primary interaction. Childhood and adolescence became largely separate from adulthood and children were seen as needing protecting 3) Children and the state Compulsory education lasts until 11 years of age. The role of child services bag to police at-risk families. The 2004 Children Act focuses on wellbeing of children from birth to age 19. In 2007, the Department for Children, Schools and Families was created to make sure children stay healthy, safe and enjoy childhood. The Child Support Act 1991 deals with care and upbringing of children. 4) Teenage parents From studies by the Social Exclusion Unit, teenage parents were said to be caused by low...
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...other projects required by your instructor. Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. | | | |ECE7001-8 |Dr. Patricia Candler | | | | |Topics in Early Childhood Education |Assignment 5 | | | |...
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...overall wellness, and hundreds of other important categories (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). The Healthy People initiative tracks and records data every ten years and shows if improvements are made in several different categories. Healthy People 2020 is the most recent program. The Healthy People 2020 initiative consists of 600 objectives which are further broken down into 42 topic areas, and 28 health indicator focus areas (Nutrition, Health and…). The initiative focuses on national statistics, with state and residential statistics added over the period of time. One of the most important objectives that deals with this class is the section about Early and Middle Childhood. The goal of the Early and Middle Childhood objective is to “document and track population based measures of health and well-being for early and middle childhood populations over time in the United States” (Healthy People). Early childhood is defined from birth to the age of eight years old and is important because it is a time extreme physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Middle childhood is defined as anytime between the age of six to twelve years old and is important because it is a time when children develop emotional and social relationships. The Early and Middle Childhood objective of Healthy People 2020 focuses on focuses on topics such as chronic disorders, obesity, oral hygiene, child maltreatment, developmental and behavioral disorders, and much more...
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...Introduction: Health outcomes refer to the changes in the health status of individuals or the population. The outcomes are attributed to multiple or planned interventions, whether or not the intention of the intervention was to alter the health status. These interventions include health services and programs including health promotion programs, government policies, laws and regulations, and consequent programs. Intervention may also include unintended or intended health outcomes of government policies in areas besides health. Health outcomes are evaluated by health indicators (World Health Organization, 1998). Health indicators are a single measure, represented quantitatively, that encapsulates an important aspect of health, such as the amount people suffering from a chronic disease. It also captures a variety of health determinants such as income, or the important aspects of the health care system, such as the proportion of patients who revisit the hospital for additional care following previous treatment (World Health Organization, 1998). These indicators can be used to describe a public health concern at a specific point in time. It can indicate periodic changes over time at the population or individual health level, describe differences in the population health, and examine the extent at which program objectives are being met. These indicators can possibly encompass illness or disease measurements which are commonly used in measuring health outcomes, such as health expectancy...
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...class focuses on healthy communities, theory, and practice. One assignment for the class is to assess a family and conduct a windshield survey and community health nursing reflection in the community that the family resides. Working with the members of the family and the relationship that family has with the community and how they interrelate with each other is very informative. The Community Health Planning unit of the Ocean County Department of Health is the agency to contact knowing the division assesses current health conditions, obtains health statistics, and collects data regarding health indicators, resource for residents and community-based organizations, and identifies opportunities for improvement in health care. Identifying a community problem of childhood obesity that will adversely affect a toddler in the family that I am affiliated has heightened my interest to prevent the devastating outcomes associated with obesity (Ocean County Department of Health, 2012). Preventing lifelong disease process is a goal for the welfare of the community population. Addressing the issue of healthy food and physical activity in the daily schedule of preschool and school aged children is important. More than 40 million children under the age of five are overweight. More than 35 million children in developing countries are overweight, and eight million in developed countries. Overweight and obesity lead too many chronic disease processes. Diabetes, cancer, hypertension, stroke...
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...Early Childhood Education Joy Richardson [University] Early Childhood Education Essential Elements Defining Early Childhood Education Early Childhood Education has a very wide coverage including: 1) having to teach the young ones the importance of forming attachments with other people like playing with other children, communicating with other individuals, and eventually to learn how to maintain relationships which are bound to last for a long time or forever; 2) having to develop their physical skills; 3) teaching them what makes sense by developing their intellectual abilities; 4) polishing their talents, for instance, in music or art or reading or writing or singing; and 5) expanding their emotional intelligence by building their self-confidence, helping them understand their emotions, as well as, coping with it. Children’s Development’s Impact on Teaching and Learning The aforementioned elements will surely help in the children’s development and this is in turn will have an impact on the educator’s teaching and learning. Explaining further, an Early Childhood Educator who is highly passionate about his or her work always takes into consideration how the child developed after being taught or handled by him or her (RAND Corporation, 2005). This greatly impacts the teaching of the Early Childhood Educator; this adds to his or her joy since it is his or her passion to teach. This joy, in turn, will teach and motivate the child to improve more;...
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...Many sociologists see childhood as socially constructed; as something created and defined by society. Many argue that what people mean by childhood, and the position that children occupy in society, is not fixed but differs between different times, places and cultures. It can be seen that by comparing the western idea of childhood today with childhood in the past and other societies. It can be determined by many sociologists that there have been many changes in society that have affected children over the last 50 years, however there are several there are several different sociological views on whether these changes have been beneficial to children or not. Functionalist sociologists have the “March of progress” view, as they believe that the experience of childhood has massively improved over the last 50 years. They take the view that childhood is socially constructed and vary between times, places and cultures. There are important differences between childhood in western societies today as compared with both present day Third World countries and European societies in the past. For example, in the middle ages, child labour was basic fact of life for almost all children, while schooling was available only to the wealthy. These differences raise the question of whether the changes in the status of childhood that we looked at earlier represent an improvement. The “March of progress” view argues that, over the past few centuries, the position of children in western societies...
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...Assess the sociological explanations of changes in the status of children (24 marks) Childhood is a socially defined age-status. There are major differences in how childhood is defined both historically and cross-culturally. Some may believe that childhood is biological. The age and development of children are biologically determined as these remain the same throughout time and cultures. But childhood, the way children are viewed and treated, changes throughout time and cultures. This is why childhood is viewed as a social construction. Some sociologists suggest the changes in the status of children are good, while others suggest they are bad. To examine the change in the status of children, we have to see how it has been constructed by society. In the UK people follow the western modern notion; that childhood is a special separate life stage. However, this view is not found in all societies as suggested by Wagg (1992). There is clear evidence of this when childhood is examined cross-culturally. Ruth Benedict (1934) argued that children in simpler, non-industrial societies are generally treated differently from their western counterparts. Benedict suggested that children take responsibility from an early age and that there is less value placed on obedience to adult authority. She also suggests that children’s sexual behaviour is often viewed differently. Many sociologists have studies to support this. Malinowski (1957) found that Trobriand Islanders took an attitude of ‘tolerance...
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...Developmental Process Presentation Child Development 202 Developmental Process Presentation There are many noticeable physical and mental differences between early childhood (2-6 years old) and middle childhood (6-10 years old). In early childhood their language and communication skills start to develop quickly. The child will begin to learn new vocabulary, the correct use of language in social settings and their grammar has noticeable changes. Even with all these advancements that are taking pace, it is still noticeable that these children are just in the beginning stages of learning as compared to children in middle childhood. In middle childhood children have already developed a set of language skills. They have the ability to use correct vocabulary during a conversation, effectively use language for different purposes such as school or a conversation with friends. They can also restate ideas and have the capability to speak in front of their classmates when giving presentations with confidence. Physical development in early childhood and middle childhood is extremely different. In early childhood children have an abundance of energy that they have a hard time controlling. In this stage children run instead of walking. They jump and skip showing the exuberant amount of energy that they have. During early childhood gross and fine motor skills are starting to become refined. A child’s hand eye coordination improves and they develop the ability to do tasks such as jump rope, hit...
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