Prompt #1: The pre-school and elementary school years are sensitive periods for human development. The experiences children have during these years affect each child's unique neural architecture and will influence how a child handles future experiences in all parts of life. With this in mind...Identify and explain how elementary schools ignore or inhibit the biological (physical), psychological, and sociocultural potential of students. [You may develop one example that is related to all three domains or you may develop one example for each of the three domains. In your answer be sure to define your terms] [150 words MAX]
Teachers make their students sit in a desk for 7 hours under fluorescent lighting with minimal break periods. Their physical and psychological ability to understand decreases rapidly because they are not given the proper time of breaks. They also are graded at a young age based on what is right and wrong. This is not helpful to their overall growth because it puts them in a competition to “beat” the other students. Stress of this causes the student to have anxious thoughts on making sure that they are always correct. One book I have read, Better Than Carrots and Sticks, dives deeper into this explaining that a student is only as good as the encouragement he is given.
Prompt #2: As important as relationships in school are to student development not all relationships between student and teacher are equal. From the readings or outside sources identify and define two predictors of a secure relationship between student and teacher. [Be sure to identify your source(s).] [100 words MAX]
From Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships, students should get excited about learning, and this happens at a young age. If a student comes into the classroom, excited to learn and see their teacher, there is a secure relationship that is being formed. Children who reach out to the students around them forming close relationships is a predictor that the school environment and the relationship with the teacher are being closely formed. If the student relies on the teacher, this is a tell sign as well.
Prompt #3: This prompt is intended to assess the instructional effectiveness of our class discussion on your understanding of "Nature-Nurture". [So, your response will only be scored for completion.] Tell me whether the following statement is True or False and explain why: "Your genetic clone would be identical to you."
This is not true. Genetics are completely different within each person. Identical twins do not always act the complete same because their environments are different in each of their eyes. It is something to take into account, but no, this is not a true statement. My clone would see the world different than how I would see the world.