EDPSY Connection Building 2
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Connection Building
These same directions and questions apply to each of the 9 Connection Building assignments during the
semester.
The goal of Connection Building activities is to get you thinking about how our course concepts connect
to your experiences outside of class. For this assignment, you will share an experience you had over the
last week that made you think about or reminded you of something that we discussed in class. Keep the
following in mind for this assignment:
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Although you should first consider the concepts we have learned most recently, you can use any
concept that we covered in class previously.
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Acceptable “experiences” can come from a broad range of sources. Examples of places that you
can draw these experiences from include
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other courses
o
a television show or movie (though you should comment on how realistic it is)
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a socio-political issue, e.g., politicians discussing whether to fund healthcare for children
o
a memory of something that happened to you in the past that you were reminded of
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You are free to share exper
iences from observations of others in public spaces. You might, for
example, see children playing in a public park and make observations about differences in their
physical development or overhear a child and parent talking and notice something about the
child’s language development. These observations are fine to include but
do not
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observe anyone beyond what you would normally do in the absence of this assignment
o
follow or secretly watch anyone for purposes of this assignment
o
reveal personal information in your answers about any other person you interact with
(you can use pseudonyms or generic labels like “mom” or “boss”)
o
actively or intentionally set up a situation for the purposes of your observation
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The questions below ask you to identify a relevant course concept. By ‘concept’, I simply mean
an idea, principle, or key term. If I have put the word on a slide and taken the time to define and
discuss it in class, then you can know that it would fit the definition of concept.
Respond to the questions below
1.
Describe the situation or experience you are thinking of. Give enough detail so that the example
and connection make sense. I have mentioned it before but I was in a preschool class where I
was assigned to a specific preschooler to teach the whole year. While following him for over a
year I have been able to witness a huge amount of physical development. One of the biggest
quantitative changes I have witnessed was his physical strength and body composition. When I
first met him he still had his toddler belly and I was able to watch him grow out of it and grow
lean muscle. He is insanely strong and can do over 30 push ups in a row now which he could not
do when I first met him. I have also been able to watch the integration of his body parts which
was really cool to see first hand. When I first met him he couldn’t jump rope properly because he
wasn’t able to make his eyes, body, and mind talk that fast and now he will yell at us to swing the
jump rope faster and faster because he is able to do it so much better now.
2.
Identify and define one concept that this situation made you think about. Explain the meaning of
that concept (i.e., put it in your own words, discuss why it is important). Quantitative changes
and Integration are both super important aspects in physical development. Quantitative changes
are continuous changes in amount, which is important to pay attention to because it can tell you
a lot about the development of a child. Integration is important as well, it is the development of
coordination which is absolutely crucial to development.
3.
Explain how this concept applied in this situation. Think about points such as
a.
Was your experience of the concept consistent or inconsistent with how it was described
and discussed in class? In what ways?
My experience was consistent with the examples
in class, because the explanation was very clear and similar to
b.
In what ways did this situation help you to understand the concept differently or more
deeply than before?
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