SOC312
SOC 312 Week 1 DQ 1 Bronfenbrenners Ecological Model
Your text uses Bronfenbrenner's ecological model to explain
how children's development is affected by different groups within their
world. Using this theory, we can
understand how children are socialized both intentionally and unintentionally. You must understand how this theory applies
to your own upbringing as well as a young child's upbringing in order to truly
comprehend the concept. Use your
understanding of this theory to respond to the questions below.
SOC 312 Week 1 DQ 2 Agents of Socialization
Agents of socialization include parents, siblings, extended
family, community, culture, economic environment, religion, child care, school,
teachers, peers, formal organizations, sports, mass media, and technology. In an ideal world, these agents would
complement one another in order to best influence a child's development. Choose
three of the above agents and discuss how these agents can have both a positive
and negative influence on a child's development. Include examples from your own experience and
share ways you believe the agents of socialization could be improved.
SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 1 The Theory of Mind
Theory of the mind suggests that children reach a cognitive
developmental milestone when they begin to understand the behaviors of
others". (Bojczyk, Shriner, and Shriner, 2001) A three year old is just becoming aware of
the things around them, there innocent and very honest at this stage. They want
to play and have fun so to keep it moving right along the child plays without
getting anyone in trouble or getting mad in the process. Jacob is in the stage
of Autonomy vs. shame and doubt he's too young and trusting so that he can't
understand that he could trick the mean monkey. Patrick has reached the stage
where he knows that he can trick the monkey and get away with it to make him
happy. The developmental stage Patrick is in is initiative vs. guilt; Patrick
is more carious than anything and want to see actually what he can get away
with.
SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 2 Self-Regulation
Toddlers' success at self-regulation is critical for their adjustment
later in life (Jennings et al., 2008). Toddlers with better self-regulation
skills are less likely to demonstrate behavior problems in preschool."
(Eisenberg et al., 2004) Most children and I say most because they understand
more than we think or know. When told not to do something they listen but it's
very hard for a toddler to stay still and just sit as such. The little girl
dove right in and took a few nibbles of the marshmallow then sat it back down,
she just couldn't help herself because their curious. The older children know
that if they wait the can enjoy two at the same time; SOC 312 Week 3 Assignment
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies
“Children in the preoperational stage continue to
investigate their environments through direct experience with objects and
interactions with others.Preoperational children view their experiences through
an egocentric lens, which affects the way they develop understanding and build
their schemas.” (Bojczyk, Shriner, & Shriner, 2012) Children get their
attitudes and beliefs from a variety and different ways; it always starts at
home in the home and around the home. Parents are who the children first hear
and look up to so they do what they see and say what they hear. “The ways in
which children learn and develop will ultimately affect how they process the
messages they receive from their microsystems, thus playing a role in shaping
their attitudes and beliefs.” (Bojczyk, Shriner, & Shriner 2012)
When children are young and in the preoperational stage they
never stop learning, the learning is continuous. Strategies such as
acknowledge, encourage, model and demonstrate are just a few that help children
along the way in their process of the growing stage in their life. As
parents/caregivers and teachers we must remain flexible and be very observant.
All the strategies go hand and hand and if one doesn’t work it will work with
another. As children grow up all these strategies will help their cognitive
growth by giving them courage, the strength, and the ability to do things and
not be afraid to try new things and they won’t be discouraged when they have to
try things over and over again.
SOC 312 Week 3 DQ 1 Motivators
You are a preschool teacher. Describe a situation in which
you would use an extrinsic reward to motivate a preschooler. Discuss how these
motivators could result in learned helplessness. Now give examples and explain
how you can lead the same child to achieve intrinsic motivation by becoming
their own locus of control. Keep in mind that your end goal is for the child to
be intrinsically motivated so they have ownership of the behavior.
SOC 312 Week 3 DQ 2 Control
The role of the microsystem in shaping children’s effortful
control is important and parents play a critical role. What would you recommend
to a parent who asks you what he or she can do to promote his or her preschool
child’s self-regulation skills? Now turning to the mesosystem, identify
examples of influences on the child's effortful control you can share with the
parent.
Provide examples of influences on children’s effortful
control that you have observed in your own family and other families who are
close to you.
SOC 312 Week 4 Assignment Bullyin Change
“During the elementary school years, children depend on each
other for companionship, advice, and self-validation. Peer relations provide a
context for self-understanding and learning how to relate to others.” (Bojczyk,
Shriner, & Shriner, 2012) Bullying takes place everywhere just not in
school, our work places and even just when we go out. When a person makes an
effort to do better and get better it’s a cry out for help, everything must be
done in order to help the person get better. “Any bully can change”. Most times it is difficult to know what is or
who is doing the bullying. To start off the class as a whole and start everyone
from the beginning, starting an activity that shows the children how to prevent
bullying and how to not become the bully is a good way to begin.
Activity
Purpose: The following plan is to help children become aware
and to help prevent bullying prevention.
Goal: Children will learn how to react to different
situations to prevent bullying as a whole.
The teacher will begin to define the word bullying and
asking children to right down their own definition and to share it as well.
Children will get into groups of four or two large groups;
they will then discuss questions among each other and come up with a skit to
act out different situations and how to prevent different situations.
Questions: What is bullying? How can we stop bullying? Do my
words hurt someone else’s feelings? Do my actions or words hurt someone else or
makes them feel afraid? Do I try to control others? Do I make fun of someone
clothing? Do I chase younger children away from the swings? Do I accidentally
bump someone in the hallway but don’t say excuse me? Do I tease others to make
people laugh?
All of the questions will give children the opportunity to
become aware of the things being said and done and how they can prevent them all.
Some things children do they really don’t mean to do it.
SOC 312 Week 4 DQ 1 Cultural and Linguistic Differences
Give an example of how you could teach your students the
importance of acceptance. Your post must address the children in the concrete
operational stage.
“A concrete operation is the stage in which children can use
mental operations to solve concrete or actual problems. Children in the midst
of concrete operations function at a much higher level in terms of their
cognition than they did during the stage of preoperational thinking.”(Bojczyk,
Shriner, & Shriner, 2012) Educators can positively influence children by
mixing them up with other kids from different backgrounds and let them interact
with each other. When I was growing up I stayed in a little suburb and I was
only around African Americans. But when I finally got to college it was finally
a mixture and I was so pleased to be around others from different backgrounds.
I wished when I was younger that my parents even took us out of the neighborhood
just so we could have had that experience as a child.
SOC 312 Week 4 DQ 2 Bullying
Choose one of the situations presented: Diego, Timmy, or
Kendra. Briefly describe the situation. Offer suggestions that can be put into
place by the teacher, school, and the parents (at least one for each). Use the
following resources to support your response:
a. Bullies: What
is Bullying
b. Stopbullying
You must address what should be said to the child who is
targeted and to the child exhibiting the bullying behavior. You must include
what should not be said as well. Include at least one suggestion to be used in
the classroom and one suggestion that can be reinforced at home.
SOC 312 Week 5 DQ 1 Technology
Your text shares many negative effects of technology and the
media's influence on children. Regardless, technology is increasing rapidly and
is only becoming a larger portion of our children's lives. First, choose an age
level (toddler, pre-school, or elementary age). Then, list three positive
examples of how technology has enhanced socialization for children in that age
group. Give two additional examples of how parents/educators can use technology
to further enhance a child's socialization.
SOC 312 Week 5 DQ 2 Nonparental Care
Choose one of the three nonparental care choices: nannies,
center-based, or family-based care. Pretend you are trying to sell your chosen
method of care to a prospective client who is a parent of a toddler. Share the
advantages of your childcare setting so that the parent chooses your method to
care for their child. Address the following in your post: socialization, cost,
turnover, and any other points that you believe are necessary to sell your
childcare option.
I am a nanny and have been very successful at being that
extra hand in my client’s homes, it’s demanding yet very honorable and
rewarding in the end. “Advantages Individual (one-on-one) or small-group care,
In-home care; no need to drive to provider location”. (Bojczyk, K., Shriner,
B., Shriner, M. 2012).
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