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Visit website to collect information that are available to children, families, and community, and develop a parent resource handbook.

Research literature on the topic of family relationships and compare and contrast how various strategies help improve family relationships.

Visit social services agencies to collect information that are available to children, families, and community, and develop a community resource handbook.

Describe your personal experiences on racial and ethnic identity awareness and analyze how social contexts affect your identity development.

Design a persona doll using any materials that you wish. Make up your own story about bias issues that maybe relevant to your future class and tell the class about your doll's story and strategies to resolve the issues, and demonstrate how you would conduct this activity in your future class.

Design strategies that support children’s identity development. Create a plan that family, school, and the community can use to promote children's positive identity development.

Use Bronfenbrenner's Ecological theory to analyze how social contexts in the five systems affect your own development.

Students will complete a minimum of 45 hours of fieldwork in an approved elementary, self-contained classroom. Written observation reports will be required to identify the problems of public education system and provide the feasible solutions.

Students will use Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale – Revised (ECER – R) to assess a classroom environment, complete all areas on the score sheet, explain the reasons why scores are assigned in each area, and total and average the scores.

This rubric will assist in setting up and grading the assessment checklist that is a combination of the two required course elements, child observation and developmental assessment.

Culturally relevant and anti-biased Lesson Plan for preschool children

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OBSERVATION Visit an Infant/Toddler Center to observe a child’s social emotional development. The age of the child must be under 36 months old. Use guidelines provided to write down any interactions between the child and caregiver that might promote the social/emotional development of the child and comment on what you have observed.

Plan a cooking activity that support children’s healthy diet and present in the class. Create an activity plan including the following components and make copies available for the students in the class: 1. Activity Name 2. Names with Assigned Responsibilities 3. Activity Area 4. Materials Needed 5. Rational (why should this activity be presented?) 6. Learning Objectives (what will the children learn?) 7. Preparation (learning environment – set up) 8. Procedure (be specific) 9. Follow – Up Activities 10. Comments The assignment will be graded according to the activity plan, presentation content, presentation skills, and teamwork.

Students will create a unit that includes the following component: 1. Unit Themes 2. Goals & objectives 3. Unit Lesson Plan - including activity plan by each group member