Blog 18: Fourth Interview Prep

Fourth Interview

1. How can establishing a healthy emotional attachment with a child influence them cognitively.

2. How important is setting boundaries to a child's development?
3. What consequences have you seen come from not setting boundaries?
4. What areas of a child’s life are most negatively influenced by a lack of clear boundaries?
5. How does setting reachable goals for a child improve development?
6. In your experience does attachment between a parental figure and a child have any correlation to how well they do in school?
7. What do you believe could negatively affect that attachment?
8. Is there such a thing as a child being too close to his or her parents?
9. What is the best advice you could give a parent?
10. How can over preparing a child impact them negatively?
11. How important is self confidence for a child to learn the way they need to in the early years?
12. In your opinion what can a parent do to help them develop self confidence?
13. What is one of the main reasons that providing early learning is important?
14. In your professional opinion at what age should parents start to expect a child to have a strong grasp of the alphabet and numbers?
15. If you could change one thing about how the US treats early learning what would it be?
16. How important are the relationships children cultivate in preschool?
17. What impact does teacher student relationships have on a child's learning?
18. In what key ways can full time and part time preschool benefit social development?
19. How important do you believe the teacher parent relationship is?
20. What is the best way teachers and parents can work together to benefit a child's cognitive development.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I am most proud of my activity. I feel like people were genuinely discussing it and had an opinion about the different examples that I did.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I would give my self a P because I met all the requirements, I made time, I was prepared and I knew my information
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
  My activity worked really well.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
   I would have included more statistics and experiments that were done by professionals to prove my point
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

 

   Before children can start learning they need to form a strong attachment to someone so my second answer would be "In order for a child to have strong cognitive development they must spend the first two years of their life with a parent or family member."

Blog 6: Second Interview Preparation

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?

My Mentors name is Adrieene. She works at Campus Kids Daycare Center. Her class includes children from age 5 all the way to 12.

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

      1. How long have you been working in child development and how has your opinion on the                  subject changed over time.

     2.In what ways would you consider yourself an expert in child development?                                          3. What are your goals for your future in child development? EX: Would you want to be a                       director. Why are these your goals?

    4. How has working in child development influenced the way you see learning and parenting?
    5. What inspired you to choose child development as a field.

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?
        I plan on interviewing my mentor Adrian. I want to interview her because I know that she has extensive experience in her field and she will help me guide my project.

2. You have to ask five questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?
        I want to ask her questions that will help guide my essential question. I know what I want to base my project on but I still need help focusing on my essential questions. I also want to ask her what type of authors I should avoid and who to look for when conducting my research.


1. If I were to be interested in studying child development, what could you tell me about it?

2. From your perspective, what could I study that would be significant?

3. How does being in daycare after school affect children versus going home?

4. Who else would you recommend I talk to?

5. What kinds of activities do you recommend I do for the mentor ship component?

6. What articles/books do you recommend I read to give me a better understanding of how day care affects children?