BackgroundSome programs provide educators with activities and/or lesson plans th

BackgroundSome programs provide educators with activities and/or lesson plans that are basic in nature and do not differentiate for all children. They may be built for that age child in general, but they do not reflect the needs of the children in your care. By nuancing your activities and/or lesson plans to support each child’s development, interests, and needs, you can ensure you are differentiating instruction and supporting all children in your care.
DirectionsYou will read about activities for four different age groups. Then you will write adaptations to the assignment for the content, process, product, and environment.
As you work through the four activities, use the guiding questions. They will help you make decisions about how to make adaptations and differentiate the activities. Make sure to include a rationale for your adaptations in your reflection.
Age Group Activity: Read the following activities and select two for this assessment. For each age group refer to the Guiding Questions and consider how you would adapt this activity through content, product, process, and environment. Create a one-page overview of the adaptations you would include in the four curriculum areas: content, product, process, and environment for each of the activities you choose.
Infant Activity: You have seven children enrolled in your infant classroom (ages 6 weeks to 18 months). In this classroom you have two educators. You have set up an activity for floor time. You have the infants on their tummies, your non-crawlers sitting with or without support, and your walkers near the large foam blocks away from the non-walkers. You are using favorite items to place in front of the children to encourage them to reach for or move towards the items.
Toddler Activity: In your two-year-old classroom you have seven children enrolled and you have two educators. You set up an art activity to paint with bright colors. You put paper at the easel with red paint in a spill proof cup. You also set up a knobbed paint brush.
Preschool Activity: In your preschool classroom (ages 3-5 years) you and your co-educator have set up an activity for lacing. You have lacing cards and medium size beads to lace with a piece of yarn.
Family Childcare Activity: In your Family Childcare, you have four children enrolled, ages 14 months, 20 months, and two 3 ½ year-olds. Your set up an activity for today working with sensory. You have a recipe for goop that consists of water and corn starch. You have the children help you make the goop.
Reflection:
Write a two-page detailed explanation about your process of creating adaptations for the two selected activities in regard to the content, process, product, and environment. Make sure to discuss the adaptations in detail for the two activities you selected and include rationale for your decisions. You may also want to include examples. Submit your reflection along with your two activity overviews.
Include APA citations to all sources used for this assignment, including a title page and reference page in APA format, if needed.
All work should be formatted professionally and use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submission RequirementSubmit your completed assignment (Adaptations and Written Reflection) by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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