Assessment Task 2 for Friday Face-to-Face Students: Linking theory to practice - Educational Booklet or a website for Early Childhood Practitioners
Word equivalent: 1600. You need to include up to 4 images.
Early Childhood educators play a critical role in supporting, promoting and engaging children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. Children's language is enhanced in an inclusive environment where everyone can participate and feel connected. A strong sense of belonging helps children understand and appreciate differences in themselves and others, which ultimately benefits their mental health and well-being. For this assignment, you willdevelop, design andsubmit an educational booklet for early childhood educators who work in an early childhood setting. This booklet or a website (wix.com(Links to an external site.)) will focus on one of the following themes:
- a) pedagogical practices that facilitate language and literacy development of children whose English is not their mother-tongue
- b) the benefits and effective examples of exploring diverse cultures/languages in early childhood
- c) the value of music and engaging activities that aid exploring diverse languages in early childhood
Present, discuss and illustrate ideas, examples and strategies of an effective learning environment for children’s language and literacy for your chosen topic.
Please select and write about one specific age-group as this will allow for more in-depth discussion. For example, you may choose to focus on infants, toddlers, three-year-old or four-year-old children.
Since this is your university assignment, you should reference the scholarly literature, even though this might not always be the practice in real-life situation.
Marking Criteria
- Discussion demonstrates knowledge and understanding of culture, language and literacy learning; scholarly references are effectively used (15 %)
- Proposed ideas and examples are pedagogically sound; scholarly references are effectively used and support the paper (15%)
- Clear organisation, structure and quality of written expression(10%)
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