Welcome

• Cierra Jolly

• April 9,2008

• Children’s Place Learning Center

• Mrs. Helen Session

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Children’s Place

Why here?

• love working with children

• Owning a learning center

• Love teaching

• Love infants

• Environment

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Responsibilities Children’s Place Learning Center

What I learned?

• Proper care of infants

• Patience

• Research question

• Steps of running a center

• Adult Partner

• Learn at own pace

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Research Question?

• How does early participation in a learning center affect a child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development?

Answer to Research

• Better prepares them for school

• Curiosity

• My study

• Further my knowledge

• Help parents

Based on Practicum

• Socially enhanced

• Basics of life at an early age

• How to respect others

• Importance of sharing

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Adult Partner Interview

• Children who attend early learning have:• Head start in Developing skills• Better prepared for school• Benefit in a structural program both

socially & Emotionally• Show greater development

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Interview

• Interviewed mother: Ms. Robbie

• Better cognitive skills

• Better social skills

• Less emotional attached

• Learn how to interact

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Stages of developments!

• Sensor motor: understand the way the world work (Kopp)

• Preoperational: use mental mind (Kopp)

• Concrete operational: perform logical operations ( Jean Piaget)

• Formal operational: think logically about abstract issues and hypothetical issues (Jean Piaget)

Are the study’s true..

• Children who attend early learning:

• Higher IQ’S (Wilson)

• Less likely to repeat a grade (Ginn)

• Learn how to increase learning skills (Barnett)

• Learn how to listen to others

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Social Development

• Interacting

• Depends on the age of a child

• Babies social develop: consist of crying

• Learn how to communicate

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Emotional Development

• Laughing

• Smiling

• Crying

• Sad

• Frustrated

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Cognitive Development

• Think, and learn• Babies initiate actions (Kopp)• Hands on skills• Listening to teacher• Listening to students• Following rules (Watson)• Key component of children character

(Halverson)

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Importance of early learning

• Parents play a major role (Ginn)• Children who don’t attend early learning:• More likely to struggle (Development of

Children) • Began pro-social behavior (Head Start

information)• Children are more enhanced in early

learning centers (Illinois State Board of Education)

Statistics

38%:Care from parents24%:Cared by relatives17%:Non relatives6%:Head startAges 3-5:More likely to be cared for in a

programUnder age 3:Cared for by parent(National Center of Education)

Advantage of Developments

• Language• Vocabulary• Building skills• Pre-reading• Interacting• Imagination • Problem solve• Overall intelligence

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My Product

• Orientation Guide

• Parents

• Better understanding

• Importance of learning centers

• Explain advantages

• Acknowledge why children should participate

Conclusion

• How does early participation in a learning center affects a child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development?

• Better prepared for the future

• Learn how to interact

• Prepared for school

Overall Experience

• SMP:

• Helpful

• Prepare for the future

• Children

• Helping

• Teaching

• Owning

My Future

• Michigan State University

• Open a learning center

• Role model

• Teach

• Own businessthebestlinks.com

Bibliography

• Barnett, Steven.” Long term Cognitive effects on early learning”. April 9,2002. Science Direct. February 5,200.http://www.sciencedirect.com/article

• “Child Development Chart 2008.” Ask Nanny. February 6,2008. http://www.asknanny.com

• Dehart, Ganie B. Child Development in Nature and Course. New York: Mcgraw Hill.2000.

• “Development of children.” 2002. PBS. February 7,2008. http://www.pbs.org/early learning

• Ginn, Wanda Y. “Jean Piaget Intellectual Development.” March 2007. The Viking Press Inc. February 11,2008. http://sk.com

• Halverson, Theresa. “How to understand Baby Development.” 2007. Seattle Based Editorial. February 6, 2008. http://www.howtounderstanddevelopment.html

• “Head-start Information.” March 4,2005. Us Department of health.

February 5,2008. http://www.headstartinfo.org

• “How children Develop.” 2002 Iowa State University. February 8,2008. http://cysernet.ces.edu.org

• Kopp, Claire B. Baby Steps. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1994. February 6,2008.

• “Stages of Intellectual Development.” 1998. Child Development Institute. February 7,2008. http://www.childdevelopment.com

• Watson, Linda D. Infants and Toddlers. Albany: Delmar,1999.

February 8,2008.

• Wilson, Laura. “Child Development." December 9,2003. McGraw Hill. February 8,2008. http://tiger.towson.edu