For your Final Semester Reflection, please write a letter to your future self, reminding Future You of the most important ideas you want to remember from this course. To help you remember all of the topics we covered that you might choose to write about, look over the Syllabus, Discussion Board, Course Content and Reading Assignments for this class.
My letter to myself would begin “Dear Richard,” for example. Yours would begin with your own name, though you are welcome to use any format you like. Your Final Reflection must be at least three pages in length, double-spaced, 12 point size.
Also, if you have any feedback for me that might help me improve this course for future students, I would appreciate you including that as well!
Assignments:
A. Discussion Comments/Responses – students will use the Discussion Board in Blackboard most weeks. To participate in discussions, students are required watch a video, research a topic on the internet or read an article and then write a comment and respond to one or more of the other student’s comments
B. “Literacy-Rich Environments” Observation – students will perform an observation/evaluation of an early childhood classroom environment for “literacy richness” and will write a report summarizing their findings and recommendations.
C. Literacy Lesson Plan and In-Person Book-Reading – students will write and implement a literacy-based lesson plan and book-reading with a group of preschool-aged children
D. Reading Summaries/Reflections – students will read, summarize and reflect on articles related to early childhood language and literacy
E. Children’s Books Bibliography – students will compile a bibliography of 10 varied children’s books
F. In-Person Observations – students will perform five two-hour observations of diverse early childhood
settings. One of these five may be done at MCC’s child development center.
G. Final Semester Summary/Reflection – Students will summarize and reflect on the most important concepts they learned across the semester.