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ECE 351 Week 1 Advocacy for Play Centered
Curriculum For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   1. Due by Day 7. Advocacy for
Play-Centered Curriculum. Chapter 1 of the text
focuses on the value of play through a teachers
eyes. Central to the discussion is how a teacher
can build a curriculum for young children with
play at the center. The purpose of this
assignment is for you to explore the value of
play-centered curriculum in early childhood
education programs.
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ECE 351 Week 1 DQ 1 Theoretical Perspectives
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   The
purpose of this discussion is to examine
theories of play and begin developing a personal
framework of play. Throughout the course, and
culminating in the Week Five Final Paper, you
will develop and refine a personal framework of
play. To
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ECE 351 Week 1 DQ 2 Is Play Important For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Prepare for
this discussion by reading Chapters 2 and 3 in
the required text. Next, review the National
Institute of Childcare and Educations article on
The Importance of Play and the National
Association for the Education of Young
Childcares
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ECE 351 Week 2 DQ 1 The Stages of Play For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
discussion provides you with an opportunity to
explore the stages of play. Understanding these
perspectives will inform your continued
refinement of your personal framework of play as
it relates to children. To prepare for this
discussion, read
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ECE 351 Week 2 Play and Development For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Play and
Development. Chapter 3 of the text focuses on the
interrelated nature of play and development. The
purpose of this assignment is to build on your
understanding of the developmental theories you
learned about in Week One, with a focused look at
the main developmental domains and how play
influences each domain.
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ECE 351 Week 2 Tianas Story For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Tianas Story. Due
by Day 7. Completing this assignment will help
prepare you for working with children like Tiana,
an elementary school student with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who is
described in this weeks case study, and for
using play as an educational and therapeutic
tool. You will create a play-based plan to help
Tiana improve her interactions with others and
increase her social skills and self-confidence.
After reading the case study, review the ADHD
What
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ECE 351 Week 3 Cultures Contribution to Play
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   In
this weeks discussions, you have explored play
in relation to culture and have examined
personalities of play, including your own. In
this weeks assignment, you will learn more about
culture as it relates to play, which can help you
further refine your personal framework of play
that you have been developing in this course.
Children's play can be personally meaningful
through their physical environment, which is
often influenced by sociocultural factors and the
cultural context in which they
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ECE 351 Week 3 DQ 1 Cultural Variations and
Beliefs About Play For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   In this discussion,
you will explore how culture affects childrens
play, development and personality. Cultural
factors related to play allow children to develop
physically, mentally, and emotionally within a
cultural context. Play teaches children many
valuable lessons including how to   be
culturally sensitive,
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ECE 351 Week 3 DQ 2 Your Play Personality For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   In this
discussion, you have an opportunity to explore
the importance of understanding your play
personality. Your play personality describes how
you engage in play given certain personality
factors. Understanding your play personality can
inform the development of your personal framework
of play. In addition to reviewing this weeks
Instructor Guidance, read the Whats Your Play
Personality? article by Monroe (2014), who
presents the research of Dr. Stuart Brown.  
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ECE 351 Week 3 Spontaneous, Guided and Directed
Play For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Spontaneous, Guided and Directed Play. The
purpose of this assignment is for you to explore
the different levels of teacher/adult involvement
in childrens play. In a three to five page
paper, you are to  
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ECE 351 Week 4 DQ 1 Playing Sports and
Development For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   Games with rules contribute to
childrens development as they begin to
understand the importance of their contributions
to others who participate in the game with them.
According to an article on the Nationwide
Childrens Hospital website (n.d.), Today, the
child- organized games in the neighborhood that
many of us remember have given way to
adult-organized youth sports (para. 2). Sports
involvement can vary from individual to group
participation or recreational to competitive
leagues.
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ECE 351 Week 4 DQ 2 The Great Outdoors For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
discussion is your opportunity to explore the
value of play in an outdoor setting as it relates
to child growth and development. Evidence
suggests that with the proliferation of portable
handheld and web-enabled devices, such as tablets
or
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ECE 351 Week 4 To Play or Not to Play For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Video games
are one of the many tools industrialized
societies use to teach children the technological
and intellectual skills they will need as adults.
It is argued that playing video games fosters
good spatial cognition, visual-spatial
organization, executive functioning skills,
attention, problem- solving skills, creativity,
and the experience of a variety of emotions
(Granic, Lobel, Rutger, Engels, 2013). Many of
these areas of functioning have great practical
and real-world benefit.
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ECE 351 Week 5 DQ 1 Learning Reflection For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Througho
ut this course, we have explored many aspects of
play and the growth and development of young
children. You now have a foundation of knowledge
about play as well as stages of growth and
development in relation to play that you can
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