Education

Paper:

You are a teacher in an early childcare program that serveskindergartners. You believe that you are on the cutting edge of early childhoodcare and education when it comes to integrating context, culture, andtechnology into your practices; and you would like to document a specifichands-on activity that you use to engage your children/students. You haveworked hard to create a model activity that incorporates important componentsof the NAEYC accreditation standards and NAEYC Technology position statement. 

Your paper should include all of the following informationabout your activity:

• Introduce yourself and describe your role (e.g., teacher, etc.be specific). This is important to connect to the audience and situate the audience on the type of activity that might be appropriate for your role.
• Provide a brief professional biography (e.g., years of experience, years at the program, area of interest or specialization).  You can make this up
• Explicitly state the level of the children you work with (e.g.,kindergarten). This is important to determine the effectiveness of your activity in relation to what is developmentally appropriate for the age group you are designing the activity for.
• Explicitly state who your audience is (i.e., who are you speaking to for example, teacher colleagues). This is important because your knowledge of your audience will drive the message you deliver and will determine the types of things you say and the nature of the points that you want to make. Also, the audience direction will determine the supporting literature that you use to justify your actions in terms of practice.
• State the name of the activity.
• Introduce the topic of your activity (e.g., language, outdoor play, iPads, website). This is a good place to make a connection to DAP or context, culture, or technical literature.

• State the purpose/objective of your activity; this is also a good place to make a connection to DAP, context, culture, technical literature.
• Describe your activity (you need to create this activity to be DAP and include some combination of context, culture, and/or technology. How you make the connections and how many components you integrate and synthesize is up to you but it does have to be multidimensional (i.e., it cannot be linear and only address one of the topics).
• Elaborate on the details of your activity that you believe put you on the cutting edge of the NAEYC accreditation and positions. What is it about your activity that makes it engaging for your age group using best practices? Why do the children love it, and why is it good for them?
• Make a statement about what you think some of the outcomes would be if you actually conducted your activity. What would you expect the childrens responses would be? This is what you will discuss, stating that The childrens reactions to the activity is . . .
• Close with a clear statement about the takeaway message that you hope the audience can discern from your paper.
• References: References should be APA format. Minimum 5 references for this assignment; they should include a mix of NAEYC, scholarly, and professional resources.