Reference no: EM133689732

Assignment: Child Development

Part 1: Identifying Quality Early Childhood Programs

Introduction

Early childhood programs aim to improve outcomes for young children and their families by offering support services such as child health and development assessments, early education and care, referral to community resources, and more.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation to help families identify quality features in their search for an early childhood program. Include several websites where families can locate additional information.

I. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that you would use in a parent night event at your childcare center.

II. You will create 7-10 slides with information about how parents can find quality childcare for their children.

III. Use your textbook and Google searches on how quality is defined, what features distinguish a high quality program, what is the quality rating scale in your state, what are the qualifications for a director and a lead teacher in your state, what websites can parents look at to find childcare in your state and any other pieces of information you think a parent would need to be armed with to make the all crucial decision to place their child in a childcare center.

IV. Ensure that your PowerPoint is engaging and lively. You want to make sure that parents have what they need to make an informed decision about childcare for their children.

Part 2: Model Breaking the Social Norms

Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules

Social norms are the invisible glue that keeps societies together. As implicit rules for social behavior, norms are really only noticed when they are violated. This assignment asks you to do just that: Break a social norm that everyone typically obeys.

Observe a variety of social norms in action for a few days, then choose one to violate. You should break the norm several times, rather than once, and in a variety of settings involving different people. Examples of some norm violations are: sitting right next to a stranger in an otherwise empty movie theater; violating gender roles, such as a woman opening a door for a man; raising both hands simultaneously to ask a professor a question; looking at other riders rather than the floor numbers in an elevator; singing out loud in public; taking more than the maximum number of items to the grocery express check-out lane; imposing on someone's personal space; being excessively helpful or excessively difficult in response to a stranger's simple request.

Let's be clear about some ground rules. First, you should not do anything illegal, unethical, dangerous, or obnoxious. Pointless pranks that waste other people's time or money, or that might be threatening to others, are not allowed. Second, you should have a clear definition of what the norm is, and how your behavior would violate it. There are lots of bizarre behaviors you could perform, but many of them would not violate any implicit social rule. Third, you may want to run your ideas by me before you engage in the behavior to get an objective opinion about the first two points.

Write a response to the following questions:

I. Give a clear definition of what the norm is and how your behavior violated it.

II. How did you feel as you broke the norm?

III. What were the reactions of other people as you broke the norm?