You will write a 3-4-page reflection paper summarizing, analyzing, and relating

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You will write a 3-4-page reflection paper summarizing, analyzing, and relating your experiences in early childhood to developmental theories and concepts presented in class. You may find it helpful to talk to a parent, caregiver or older family member for help remembering your time as a preschooler. You will use APA style to write this paper.
This assignment will be submitted on Canvas using turnitin.com and will require you to use APA style. 
It’s hard for grownups to imagine themselves as little children or what their life was like then (let alone remember).
You might have to ask a parent or relative for some help remembering that time period.
Feel free to include other relevant information or stories about yourself.
As you reflect back or find out about your life as a young child, consider how those early days might have influenced your development in all of the areas listed in the rubric below-physical growth and development, cognitive and learning development, personality and social development and consider all the contexts of development discussed in your textbook.
Make sure to include how your preschool years impacted your development in these areas and how it has impacted who you are today.
APA Style Requirements for this Paper
Utilize at least 2 references to support your reflections on how your early experiences have impacted your development and cite them appropriately using APA style. At least one of the references must be a peer reviewed journal article. The other can be any kind of resource and you may use your book as this references if you prefer. See the following site for help: Purdue Online Writing LabLinks to an external site.
Use APA style for your paper (double-spaced, 1″ margins on all sides, 12 pt. Times New Roman font).
You do not need an abstract but do include a “Running head”.
Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length not including the cover page (name, title of the paper, course name, college name and date or the reference page which should be included at the end).
Listed below are a number of questions to help you recreate your life in early childhood. You do NOT have to answer all of them or any of them if you choose not to. They are just a helpful tool to get you started if needed. The most important thing is to make sure you address all of the areas mentioned in the rubric below for full credit.
Where did your family live when you were a preschooler? Who was living in the house? Did you share a bedroom? With who? Did you have a ”going to bed” routine? Can you describe it?
What was your favorite toy? Story? Game?
Describe one of your preschool birthdays. Who was there? What presents did you get?
Recreate an early Christmas or holiday. Do any of the family traditions still occur today? If you have children, do you carry on these traditions for Christmas or a holiday in similar fashion?
Did your mother work? Did you go to preschool or have a babysitter? When did you first write your name? Is there a copy of it somewhere?
Do you recall any special event, pleasant or traumatic, that happened to you or in your family between 2 and 6 years of age? How might this have affected your later development?
Who was your closest friend? Describe a common activity you played.
What was your health like? Any serious illnesses? Did you have any food preferences?
Ask someone to describe your personality and some of your typical behaviors.
Try to describe your earliest memory.
PAPER RUBRIC
POINTS AVAILABLE TO BE EARNED
Physical Growth and Development
15 points available for addressing your physical development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider changes to the body, milestones, gross and fine motor skills, brain development, and factors that affect physical growth. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your physical development in preschool might impact you now.
Cognitive and Language Development
15 points available for addressing your cognitive and language development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider Piaget’s preoperational stage, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, and information-processing theory. Discuss your development related to attention, memory, intelligence and learning, language development and other factors that may have impacted this development such as education and SES. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your cognitive and language development in preschool might impact you now.
Personality and Social Development
15 points available for addressing your personality and social development at this stage in a thoughtful way, consider emotional development, temperament, attachment, self and social understanding, self-esteem, identity development, social problem solving, friendships and play, moral development and aggression, genders stereotypes, gender roles and development of a gender identity at this age. Relate back to what you have learned in the course and discuss how what happened in your personality and social development in preschool might impact you now.
Use of APA Style, following guidelines for paper, grammar and spelling
15 points total
-4 points total for correct length of paper (3-4 pages) of text writing + 1 cover page and 1 reference page
-4 for in-text citations (minimum 1 used for each source)
-3 points for appropriate grammar and spelling
-2 for APA sources correctly cited on Reference Page
-2 for correct APA style used throughout paper

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