InstructionsforKeyAssessment231REVISEDNovember202011
ChildDevelopment- EDU 231
INSTRUCTIONS – KEY ASSESSMENT
Early Field Experience – 503 Assignment
Write a 5 – 10-page essay detailing your observation experiences in your selected videos. Discuss the
requested information in the prescribed order and format detailed below. For your paper use Times New
Roman 12 point font, make sure it is double-spaced, written in APA Format and contains references.
Please do not label your sections with numbers.
This field experience paper is due before midnight on December 12, 2020.
Section 1 – Overview of Classrooms – Video Reviews (3-5 pages)
o Select your focus age group
o Select and watch at least three classroom videos for your focus age group in three of the academic
domains (art, literacy, math, science, social studies or history)
o Include the links to the videos you watched in your resource section
o Write about the classrooms you viewed and:
o Identify the grade and type of class (mainstream, inclusion, bilingual, etc.)
o Identify the staff to student ratio
o Identify the type of staff and their professional backgrounds
o Describe general climate of the classrooms
o Describe classroom set up
o Describe the types of learning activities you observed.
▪ Include the developmental theories that apply to the classrooms you observed.
▪ Explain whether the lessons were Developmentally Appropriate (and why or why
not?)
▪ Make sure to include at least one of the following concepted as you write this
section:
• Nurture vs. Nature
• Universality vs. Diversity
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative
▪ Apply to your analysis of the observation which of the three developmental
domains were you able to observe (cognitive, physical and/or social emotional).
Answer the questions below for the developmental domains you observe.
▪ Cognitive Development
• How would you characterize the cognitive development of the students
you observed and explain why.
• What classroom practices and / or learning activities did you observe that
appeared to reflect best practices? Refer to cognitive theories we
studied.
• How can the cognitive development needs of students be better met in
that learning setting?
▪ Language Development
• How would you characterize the language development of the students
you observed and explain why?
• What classroom practices and/or learning activities did you observe that
appeared to reflect best practices? Refer to language learning theories
we studied.
• How can the language development needs of students be better met in
that learning setting?
▪ Socio-Emotional Development
• How would you characterize the socio-emotional development of the
students you observed and explain why.
• What classroom practices and / or learning activities did you observe that
appeared to reflect best practices? Make reference to socio-emotional
theories we studied.
• How can socio-emotional needs of students be better met in that learning
setting?
▪ Physical Development
• How would you characterize the physical development of the students
you observed and explain why.
• What classroom practices and / or other related activities did you observe
that appeared to reflect best practices? Make reference to the best
practices we learned about.
• How can the physical development needs of students be better met?
▪ Describe whether you thought the students seem engaged (and why or why not?).
• If not, what could the teacher have done differently?
Section 2 – An Analysis of School Staff (1-3 pages)
o Watch a video for each of the following
▪ School Social Worker
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h5zJlcTYGE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaEj2H0Fppo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46r7BeRlpa0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggsz7qtPcoY
▪ Principal
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVEBCsRB88
• https://www.naesp.org/principal-practices-videos
▪ Teacher
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_3bBQ6z-A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN–cKdwu4I
o Write an analysis of the responsibilities of each position.
o Write an analysis of how any of the classrooms you observed may have benefitted from the
support of the staff members listed above.
Section 3 – Reflection (1 – 2 pages)
o Topic Sentence
o What was new to you while conducting this observational experience?
o How well did the course content in our Child Development course prepare you for this
observation? Explain.
o Any content that you would like to add to Child Development after making observations at the
school site?
Links to videos for classroom observation
Multiple Topics:
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/resources/calibration/videos.html
http://commoncore.americaachieves.org/
https://www.teachingvideolibrary.org/
https://vimeo.com/channels/celebrationsoflearning
Math https://achievethecore.org/teachingthecore
Literacy Instruction:
https://readingandwritingproject.org/resources/units-of-study-implementation/units-of-study-
classroom-videos
9th Grade ELA Class: https://youtu.be/Jyh3M8SCB3M
8th grade Rhetorical Analysis/ Allusions: https://youtu.be/unuhwXWwftg
English Language Learners: https://www.colorincolorado.org/videos/classroom-video
https://www.naesp.org/principal-practices-videos
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/resources/calibration/videos.html
http://commoncore.americaachieves.org/
https://www.teachingvideolibrary.org/
https://vimeo.com/channels/celebrationsoflearning
https://achievethecore.org/teachingthecore
https://readingandwritingproject.org/resources/units-of-study-implementation/units-of-study-classroom-videos
https://readingandwritingproject.org/resources/units-of-study-implementation/units-of-study-classroom-videos
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://youtu.be/Jyh3M8SCB3M%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1587837387892000&sa=D&ust=1587837387922000&usg=AFQjCNE6KGHg39bCZtMRB-qDPWVTH2HTeg
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://youtu.be/unuhwXWwftg%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1587837387893000&sa=D&ust=1587837387923000&usg=AFQjCNH92iKG550Jhq73yac18r5gVBTaBA
https://www.colorincolorado.org/videos/classroom-video
