Discussion 1:What Might and Infant/Toddler Music Class Look Like
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Each year, the infant-toddler program you work in offers a variety of lunch ‘n learn events. The upcoming event is scheduled to be "Making Music Together: The Powerful Role of Music in Your Child's Life."
Your director has asked you to conduct a 30-minute workshop with your group of parents. Share how you will conduct these parts of the short meeting.
A 10-15 minute informal chat outlining how music supports and nurtures children's developmental skills. Include ways parents can integrate musical activities at home.
Using the sites provided below, select and teach one lullaby and one musical play song to your families.
How will you introduce each song to the group and what methods will you use to teach each song. Use methods presented in the unit material.
Demonstrate to parents how to make up a verse for each song and suggest this as a strategy to use at home.
Include ways to support music development in non-mobile babies.
Source: Songs for Teaching.
Source: Children's Songs, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Source: Music Together.
Discussion 2: Creativity, Diversity, and the Early Childhood Program
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You are an early childhood educator in a large, multicultural, urban school for children in kindergarten through first grade. Your director has asked you to manage the school's winter holiday activities and make it a multi-cultural holiday celebration rather than the usual Christmas program. Share your ideas with the other staff members who will be involved.
Include the following:
Ways to involve each age group in meaningful activities throughout the holiday season. Use the Multicultural Curriculum Planning Form (figure 25-1) in Chapter 25 of your text to consider a variety of ways to integrate celebration activities in the normal school day
Suggested creative arts activities based on developmentally appropriate practices, cultural backgrounds, and the diverse needs of the children
A multi-cultural holiday celebration development or implementation plan
To plan for this meeting, think about the approaches to multicultural education presented in this unit as best practices. They are quite different from the standard activities often used like school-wide programs, plays, and festivals.
Finally, share three multicultural resources that you think are the best support for the multi-cultural celebration including any resource from this course.
Discussion 3
Consider current events related to this unit's topic by conducting a short article search on topics related to the significance of control systems in business.
Read an article published within the previous year related to the topic indicated above.
Summarize the information in your own words. Describe a) what you learned from this information and b) how it relates to this unit's topic.
Be sure to identify which key term or phrase from this unit relates to your response. Include the article title, name(s) of author(s), the publication date, and, if available, the web link.
Discussion 4
Read the article: "The evolution of work: One company's story" by Roxane Divol and Thomas Fleming found in the Library.
Considering the differences between traditional work environments and the New Team Environment, describe important factors in building a virtual team that provide benefits to the organizations and to the individual team members.