Do Babies Learn Vocabulary Essay

The brochure, The Connection Between TV and School Scores (Trelease, 2011) is a very interesting, and informative brochure, that gives the parents a chance to read about the life of Ben Carson, and how his mother helped him overcome his low grades, in elementary school, to become one of the top five children in his school on graduation day. This is an inspiring story, and one that needs to be told as an encouragement, and inspiration to those parents that are discouraged and feel like there is no hope. In the brochure it talks about Finland, and the children watching television with closed caption on in their native tongue, and the parallel to their reading scores. Again this can give hope to parents struggling to find a way to help their children, and they may not have thought about the television as a learning tool before being handed this brochure. The second brochure, 10 Facts Parents Should Know About Reading (Trelease, 2009) is a wonderful little brochure that breaks things down quickly, and precisely, so that if the parent does not want to, or does not have the time to read the whole brochure they can skim pieces of the brochure and glean valuable information that they can use at home.

Then she did the same tests as the day before to see if the previously inferior kids improved and if the previously superior kids scores deteriorated. Then in the present time of the documentary being made she tried the same technique with adults. This experiment would be considered a controlled observation which is setting up a scenario and seeing how people will react.

In the video of the Stanley Milgram Experiment People were given roles as teachers and students. The students had been hooked up to an electrical system were they had been received questions and whenever they had answered incorrectly they received a dosage of electricity and got progressively got stronger each time they were wrong. At a certain point the student stopped responding to pain and the scientist had kept making them give a voltage. Some People discontinued the experiment.

Postan states, “Parents embraced sesame street for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guild over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television” (1). He explains how parents are lazy and hope for their child to learn just by watching something on television. However he assumes that the shows can teach more than a preschool can such as reading and how to pronounce

Gopnik’s article also talks heavily about children experiments that include them learning things without any clear instruction. When children are given no clear instruction, they often use trial and error to figure things out. Children are able to use their cognitive processes to see what is beneficial to them. Not only children but adults also use this approach to learn new things. Gopnik wrote, “Simple trial and error, trying different actions until one succeeds, is actually often a very effective way of getting along in the world.

4a – After the delivering lessons, Miss Hannan assessed the instructional session and provided suggestions to improve upcoming lessons. 4b – Miss Hannan collaborated with the cooperating teacher for an efficient and effective process of recording and maintaining accurate assessment for each student. 4c – Miss Hannan described that parents and teachers are “ultimate teammates” in a student’s education. She kept parents informed by a weekly newsletter that was written by students. Understanding that parents need to be made aware of their child’s progress, Miss Hannan communicated positive and areas of challenges by sending notes and emails to parents.

I believe this type of well-organized schedule helps the children to know what is expected of them. Also, the hands on approach between the students and the teacher allows for individualized learning for the children. Finally, I found their purposely using open ended questions to encourage the children into thinking for themselves during the Choice Time to be an excellent teaching method. 2. Provide a descriptive personal or professional observation that is similar to the concept you selected from the video (use initials in place of a child’s name).

In the video, “Becoming Readers and Writers”, Shelia Owen’s kindergarten class, are five-and six-year-old are readers and writers from day one. The teacher discuss the four reading activities they use in the classroom. The first one she discuss is read aloud, which the teacher is reading a book, modeling the language, and stimulating the discussion in the love of reading. Share reading is when the teacher pulls back on participating and the children role increases. Another one she discuss about is guided reading, and that’s when the teacher pulls back further, and the children show her how much they have learned.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In April of 1968, a third grade teacher from a small, whites only town of Riceville, Iowa walked into class confounded and disturbed. The class had recently made Martin Luther King Jr. The hero of the month.

She separates her students into two groups to see how they will change and try to react to the group. She separated them into categories of blue and brown eye. Each day she selected a different eye color to be the superior one. They would discriminate against their friend if they were superior. They were just doing what one was doing, or at least following what the teacher told them to do in this experiment.

The Milgram experiment was conducted to analyze obedience to authority figures. The experiment was conducted on men from varying ages and varying levels of education. The participants were told that they would be teaching other participants to memorize a pair of words. They believed that this was an experiment that was being conducted to measure the effect that punishment has on learning, because of this they were told they had to electric shock the learner every time that they answered a question wrong. The experiment then sought out to measure with what willingness the participants obeyed the authority figure, even when they were instructed to commit actions which they seemed uncomfortable with.

(pg. 11) During this, the children decided not to play around but rather they chose to talk about what they learned. This shows that the students were paying attention, were involved, and thought beyond the lesson and they shared that information between each other. This is fantastic, since before the loathed the idea of learning, but now they are confronting each other about the lesson without being told to do so, showing their independent learning. Following that, Miss Ferenczi’s teachings has also helped them think/learn independently by making them question what they know.

The program touched on what would happen to a child mentally and not just physically. We learn a lot on how child develop in class but don’t really touch on how everything around them can affect them in a big way. For example, in the program I separated from my spouse for a while. The program went into how this was affecting my daughter and I got to later go into detail on

In the article, “A High-Quality Program for Your Infant,” they understand that the early education years are censorious in developing a child's mind. They show how they use cognitive development to help infants learn and develop as they grow. Meaning they allow infants to be active through hands-on play. For example, rolling on a blanket, letting them touch, hear, or taste objects they are curious about. According to Piaget (2013) he believed, “that infants and toddlers “think” with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment” (p.118).

For the second ten minute observation, I observed was during the teacher during circle time. They do a 20 minute circle every morning and the children love it. For this observation, I would give the teacher a rating of 5 for responding to social cues. During the circle time, she would ask questions and let the children talk. She would pick on kids with their hands up and allow them to speak and she would also pick on the kids that clearly wanted to talk, where either trying to talk without raising their hands.