Blog Assignment Week 2: Your Personal Research Journey

Student Name: Angie Woods

The topic I chose to research is social cognition because I see children so much at work with less social cognition skills among their peers and other people. Children with less social cognition act out in the classroom just as well as on the playground outside. I feel that teachers have the lack of the helping the children build up social cognition. Because in most homes some parents does teach their children good social cognition.

Children’s social cognitions about their peers also become increasingly important understanding peer relationships in early, middle and late childhood. I was at work a boy accidentally trips and knock another child’s soft drink out of his hand. The child misinterprets the encounter as hostile, which leads him to retaliate aggressively against the boy. Through repeated encounters this kind, other children came to perceive the aggressive boy as habitually acting in inappropriate way.

Then my last current situation in the classroom was when my class came back from specials it was two little girls both girls do good in coloring but one little girl always color neat all the times. So the other little girl was already mad at the other little girl because she was doing her paper neat. So the other little girl came in the classroom before she made it back in then and got a dark color and scribble all over her neat work. Then when the other little girl mad it back to her paper she came to me and was in tears but other little girl did it because she got jealous of the other little girl because everything be neat all the time from her. Plus she didn’t want her paper neater then her paper. I would like to go feather in knowing more about social cognition. How as a teacher I can address social cognition in my classroom or a part of my daily teaching. Even though children play with other children but how today generation is with so many young mothers with children. I would love to have research on social cognition.

Application Assignment Week 2 part 2: Research Simulation

Application Assignment Week 2 part 2: Research Simulation

Student Name: Angie Woods

The chosen topic for my  research simulation from  last week  was  a debt of a more understanding of the  two fields of  early childhood education and elementary as I discovered that both fields are benefited to  children in aspect of developing learning skills . The subtopic I chose this week is Effective Facets of a Field Experience That Contributed to Eight Preservice Teachers’ Developing Understandings about Culturally Responsive Teaching is related to my research simulation in effective aspects of the field experience, which facilitated preserve teacher’s development of a deeper understanding about culturally responsive.

In the research simulation assignment, the first step in narrowing down to the three sub-topics to give me an interesting thought.  I feel that culturally responsive teaching with teacher’s ability can connect on deeper levels with each students and the aspect of a more understanding of individual of every student as a person. Such an important point of information from the article was about culturally responsive teachers embrace an attitude to support diversity, knowledge and skills to incorporate content with culture relevant to individual students to facilitate learning teachers is that they recognize conceptions of self and others understand the significance of social interaction and promote social engagement in the classroom. Teachers consider the conception of knowledge. Which I also think that teachers hold a value important part involvement in supporting diversity , knowledge with the skills of social interaction and promoting social engagement in  the classroom.

As I still gain more understanding with and about this course working forward to build up my research skills some things I has been beneficial to me.  The research has always been like working a jigsaw puzzle to me, as I continue to go forth in this course I do want to at least reach to a great exception from starting all the way to the end.  I think the middle is more crucial to read and follow along on the right way. As I was gathering the information into the chart it was able to help me gain a little understanding, in how to look at the article and get the most important information from it to my understanding in how the research skills can benefit my knowledge of understanding the concept.

In this course I hope and pray that my progresses will improve with the knowledge and understanding of my research skills gain, I it may seem easy because it’s reading and understanding the articles of research but the concept of doing it right when some information I know little of or about so I know this course will bring all the weak points. Out of me that I never knew the lack that I knew about research skills. Like the old saying everything that looks easy is not and I sure do see that now, In order for me to become a better educator.  I have to find the interest in to know what processes I need to learn. In my subtopic I chose was the effective facets of a field experience that contributed to eight preservice teachers’ developing understandings about culturally. I can understand the effective facets of my field experience. Field experiences benefit preservice teachers’ professional growth and enhance my learning skills and abilities in the field of early childhood education.

References Lists

1.     http://uex.sagepub.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org

2.     http://uex.sagepub.com/content/48/3/380

3.     http://uex.sagepub.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/content/48/3/380.full.pdf+html

EDUC 6163: Building Research Competencies “Understanding Research” Chart—Week 2

Your “Understanding Research” Chart is divided into the following sections:

·         Section 1: Key Terms

·         Section 2: Learning Resource Highlights

·         Section 3: Reflection

Use the instructions document to help you complete this chart.

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS

WEEK 2 (Chapter 2: The Research Process)	TERMS USED	DEFINITION OF TERMS
	1.     Deductive Research Methodology	Like detectives, researchers have different ideas about the best way to do their work. Researchers pursue their research in a linear, logical and step- by-step way. In more technical terms, this is referred to as a deductive research methodology. It is associated with positivist paradigms and often uses quantitative approaches to data. Researchers who approach their work in this way generally wait until all their data are in before beginning to analyses and draw conclusions. They usually set out to test hypotheses based on theory and research already completed and carefully design their studies with this intention.
	2.Inductive research methodology	Other researchers have a more fluid and intuitive approach to their research. The technical terms, they engage in what is referred to as inductive research methodology, often associated with interpretivist and postmodern paradigms, and frequently using qualitative approaches to data. The researcher generally tries to avoid too many preconceptions about what will be discovered, and is keen to stay close to and analyse the data, looking at the theory emerging from it and perhaps even modifying the line of inquiry in response to developing understanding.
	3.Triagulation	The approaches are not mutually exclusive and many researchers use a combination to gain a more complete picture of what they are interested in. The use of different methods within the same study triangulation. Regardless of the approach taken, at some point in the research process most researchers find that they need to complete the following steps if they need to complete the following steps if they want to generate research that is informative, ethical, meaningful, persuasive and significant.

SECTION 2: LEARNING RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS

TOPIC - WEEK 2	TOPIC SUMMARY	PERSONAL COMMENT
(name the topic here)	I have learned more on design research, by careful design of research takes time, and am again time well spent. How good design will ensure that research provides me with data that enable me to achieve what I am set out to achieve whether it is to describe, understand or explain what interests me the most. To change the plan halfway would risk serious breaches of the control needed in the sort of research. Researchers may use deductive or inductive research methodologies, positivist, interpretivist or postmodern paradigms, and quantitative or qualitative data approaches depending on the questions they are interested in.	The importance of carefully refining a research topic along with the practicalities of deciding what is a workable research question. Then it all depends on the kind of research you doing to see which is best because to me all research data is helpful and useful in many ways. But it’s good that I learned more about the design research in how good it ensure research in a risk serious breaches. In the control needed in the sort of research use to deductive or inductive.

Chapter 2: (state the chosen reflection question here)

My reflection question I chose Which step(s) would I enjoy the most? It will be the process/analyses data once the data collection is finished, the phase of data processing and analysis can begin. It is important to draw on literature review to develop a conceptual/ theoretical framework for analyzing the data. The framework is made up of concepts, built from the literature that will apply to organization and selection of data as well the analysis.

 SECTION 3: REFLECTION

Discussion Assignment Week 2: Checking Quality Criteria

Student Name: Angie Woods

There is a great aspect of many different varieties of resources of information about early childhood field with many standards/ guidelines of having the quality of many researches information. The source I chose was High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study the in a nursery program. The resources quality criteria clearly states about the compares in High Scope active learning preschool model with two other preschool models. The children were in three groups and were all living in poverty at high risk of school failure. Now the three models was direct instruction model, a traditional nursery school model with the High Scope model. All three model groups have had significantly fewer felony arrests of various kinds and just about fewer years of special education for emotional impairment. Mainly just a different effect from different preschools but the best model was the direct instruction approach. It focuses on academics and requires young children to respond to rapid harder questions pose by teachers.  In the High Scope group aspires to complete a higher level of school in the direct instruction. The preschool programs it promotes children initiated activities.

I had gain out of this information was that some preschools are not on the same curriculum that High Scope is more like a Nursery School programs. Plus the curriculum that I am more firmly with is the NAEYC Accreditation Standards and Criteria. I feel that the quality of children’s is more on a daily experience in early childhood programs. That promotes positive child out comes goals in the ten NAEYC early childhood program standards and accreditation criteria. In the resource that I discover about High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison it compares active learning preschool model. I really don’t see that much guidelines in academics standards skill in High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison. So what I did learn from the article was out of the three models the Direct Instruction. Is the high level in the High Scope Preschool Curriculum and that it is also part of the preschool programs that promote child- initiated activities the High Scope Nursery school programs. So that was something new to me because I didn’t know that nursery have or go by a curriculum of a different program from NAEYC.

                                                                                               

References List

1.      High Scope Curriculum - Plan 4 Preschool High Scope Curriculum. The High Scope model has undergone extensive research validation. This model is based on the principle that children learn best through hand plan 4preschool. org/curriculum /high_scope_curriculum– Cached

2.      Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1997). Lasting differences: The High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison study through age 23 (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 12). Ypsilanti, MI: High Scope Press.

3.      Schweinhart, L. J., Weikart, D. P., & Larner, M. B. (1986). Consequences of the three preschool curriculum models through age 15. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1: 15–45.

4.      Weikart, D. P., Epstein, A. S., Schweinhart, L. J., & Bond, J. T. (1978). The Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project: Preschool years and longitudinal results (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 4). Ypsilanti: High Scope Press.

5.      http://www.naeyc.org/

Application Week 1 part 2 AW Entering the Research Process/ Beginning Your Research Simulation from General Topic to Subtopics

Application Assignment Week 1- Part 2: Entering the Research Process/ Beginning Your Research Simulation from General Topic to Subtopics

Student Name: Angie Woods

Restate my general early childhood research topic I would like to research the topic is theirs a difference in early childhood field then elementary field. In the schools here in the Delta of Mississippi most teacher think there is as if the elementary field is better. So I am glad to research more about this topic so that I can have a better understanding in the two fields and can explain my knowledge to most of the people I work with can understand the two fields. My professional is that I am a Permanent Substitute Kindergarten teacher at a school which the name of the school is called James C. Rosser Elementary. In a very small town called Moorhead Mississippi it seems like theirs a debt between the two fields among most teachers and few administers in the local area where I live. In my research of the topic I discover a naeyc position statement of developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. In the naeyc position statement there was some real good important information tips about my general statement topic.

 One of my subtopic I would like to address that was part of my learning was creating improved, better connected education for preschool and elementary children. In the naeyc position statement it stated that preschool education and elementary education each with its own funding sources, infrastructure, values, and traditions have remained largely separate. In fact, the education establishment typically has not thought of preschool as a full-fledged part of American public education. Among the chief reasons for this view is that preschool is neither universally funded by the public nor mandatory. Moreover, preschool programs exist within a patchwork quilt of sponsorship and delivery systems and widely varying teacher credentials. Many programs came into being primarily to offer child care for parents who worked.

 In recent years, however, preschool’s educational purpose and potential have been increasingly recognized, and this recognition contributes to the blurring of the preschool elementary boundary. The two spheres now have substantial reasons to strive for greater continuity and collaboration. Still from my understanding I see no difference in how the two fields are different from the other field. As it goes on further in the information of this topic which gave my wondering a more clear understanding to my debt was that, the world of early care and education stands to gain in some respects from a closer relationship with the K–12 system. Given the shortage of affordable, high-quality programs for children under 5 and the low compensation for those staff, advocates see potential benefits to having more 4-year-olds, and perhaps even 3-yearolds, receive services in publicly funded schooling. Proponents also hope that a closer relationship between early-years education and the elementary grades would lead to enhanced alignment and each sphere’s learning from the other, resulting in greater continuity and coherence across the preK -3 grade spans.(2) My second subtopic is recognizing teacher knowledge and decision making as vital to educational effectiveness. I think teacher should have the right to know the directing and scaffolding of teacher’s work is helpful. Teacher’s provide the best teaching and learning for children in which it varies with the differences among administrators , plus teachers themselves in the context in which they work. (3) My third subtopic is learning more about the naeyc is this renewable license program since both fields are alike at an aspect of grade levels.  I am lost in trying to see if it’s a license like most teachers with a degree in elementary education have to gather ECU hours up for to keep their license. So how is it done for teachers in early childhood field that’s in the program of naeyc programs?  But I do understand that both fields are the same from prek-3 it’s more of working together in learning children.

The three ways I anticipate that researching these topics might be significant for young children, their families, and/or the field of early childhood. (1) The first way is that both fields are significant for young children and their families. It goes in ways by helping the children development and learning occur in are influenced by socially and culturally. It reduces the learning gaps and increasing the achievement of all children. Children learn more how to interact with other children besides their own cultures as well. (2) It gives help to many families with low income to provide a safer and academically early start for young children. By preparing a head start in school at a younger age so when children start school they’ll be more prepared and ready to learn more. (3) The third way in researching the topic might be significant to the field of early childhood is that no matter what people may say or try to low standardize the field of early childhood. As long as you’re an educator the things that early childhood teachers are the mold of the children first being. Everyone main goal is to teach children to the best of your knowledge there is no field is better than another field. Because everyone serves the same purpose that’s to teach children to our best knowledge and standards.

References List

1.     Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSDAP.pdf‎

Application Assignment Week 1 AW: Entering the Research Process

Application Assignment: Entering the Research Process

                                                      Student Name: Angie Woods             

Article Title: Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care

The research article that I was interesting in was Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care. The article goes into brief detail about teacher child relationships were examined as predictors of cortisol change in preschool children. In the article Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care, Saliva for assays was collected from one hundred and ninety one 4-year-olds (101 boys) in the mornings and afternoons on 2 days at child care, and before and after a series of challenging tasks and a teacher-child interaction session outside the classroom. Also in the article parents reported on children’s temperament, teachers and children reported on teacher child relationship quality, and observers rated group-level teacher insensitivity. Then how teacher reported relationship conflict predicted cortisol increases during teacher child interaction and teacher reported overdependence predicted cortisol increases from morning to afternoon, even after controlling for individual teacher, child, and classroom characteristics. The findings extend earlier work by suggesting that cortisol change across the child care day is influenced by teacher child relationship characteristics. The article Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care the article had three different tables in how Correlations Among Cortisol and Relationship, Child, and Classroom Variables. Try to show a more of an aspect of how much of a range teacher reported overdependence predicted cortisol increase of teacher rate of group level teacher insensitivity. I just feel like now day’s children are very out of control. Times has changed a lot from the 60’s 80’s parents was a whole lot different like the old saying,” It takes a village to raise a child “You had seen a difference in children too. Compared to how the children are now you really can’t trust people the way you use too neither.

References List

1.     http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/

2.     Article: Lisonbee, J. A., Mize, J., Payne, A. L., & Granger, D. A. (2008). Children’s cortisol and the quality of teacher–child relationships in child care. Child Development, 79(6), 1818–1832. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. Elevated Cortisol levels can be a symptom of anxiety or other stress. The focus of this study was to find out what may influence a change in Cortisol levels in very young children.

Discussion Week 1 AW: Research and You

Discussion Week 1: Research and You

Student Name: Angie Renee’ Woods

In what ways do I perceive research as relevant (or not relevant) to young children, their families, and people who care about their well-being? The way how I perceive research as relevant or not relevant to young children plus families. Is that everyone has a different problem some may be the same or some may be different. But as an early childhood educator, or anyone who deals with families and children as a job. I feel like it’s my responablities to care about their well-being of the children in their families in the need of any kind of help that is relevant. For an example, Children living in dangerous neighborhoods have been found to be at higher risk than children from safer neighborhoods for severe neglect and physical abuse, as well as child sexual victimization. Some risk may be associated with the poverty found in dangerous neighborhoods, however, concerns remain that violence may seem an acceptable response or behavior to individuals who witness it more frequently. Something that is not relevant to young children, their families to me is like for example the child’s mom has a new hairstyle or pair of new shoes. Families involved in child maltreatment seldom recognize or reward their child's positive behaviors, while having strong responses to their child's negative behaviors. Families who are doing good parenting skills in raising their children in the right way to be successful in life. That is good but as a person who deal with families and children with the care of their well-being. Things like this is not relevant because the families are not in need of any help just doing the right thing in taking care of the child’s well-being.

What do I already know about research and researchers? I know about research is that it allows you to pursue your interests in to learn more about the research. Research is to hone your problem solving skills and to challenge yourself in new ways and I guess to improve your learning skills better. The researchers support the information in what research information I may be looking for or about. So that I can learn more about the research information with the help of the researcher different sources.

What challenge(s) do I anticipate in learning about research? My challenge in what I anticipate in learning about research is about the NAEYC position statements state the association's position on issues related to early childhood education practice, policy, and/or professional development for which there are controversial or critical opinions. Position statements are developed through a consensus-building approach. How long the program does last is it different from people with renewing teaching license with ECU credit or is it the same.

What kind of support, if any, can I offer my colleagues when it comes to learning about research? The only support that I can offer to my colleagues when it comes to learning about research is never think that too much information is not good. Try to find out as much information about whatever the topic maybe. All kind of research information is good when you trying to find out or learn about something.

About what general topic related to the early childhood field would I like to know more? The general topic related to the early childhood field I would like to know more is theirs a different in early childhood field then Elementary field. Does people in Early Child field get paid the same as elementary field people? Because I want too now which field is the best when I see the same? Early childhood field goes how deep working with young children and families. Today, being a lifelong learner is more important than ever. The workplace constantly changes. Technology pervades nearly every work environment making it necessary for workers to learn new skills throughout their careers. Workers discover that in order to be successful, they need to be lifelong learners. There are both formal and informal places where one can seek new knowledge and skills.