Parental Coaching

Question 1

Provide an introduction where you introduce yourself and discuss your experience working with children. This experience can be personal or professional, including things such as being a child care provider, teacher, interventionist, babysitter, working with children at a Sunday School, coaching, being a parent, or even being an older sibling. When you introduce yourself, include your name, where you live, and any additional information you wish to share about yourself. In addition, view the course description and course learning outcomes listed on the Syllabus. Reflecting on these, share what you hope to learn from this course to prepare you for professional practice in a current or desired work setting. Finally, after viewing the video below, describe at least one example of how nature and/or nurture have influenced your cognitive development. If you are unable to access the video, please make sure you have read about nature vs. nurture in section 1.1 of the course text.

• The Nature-Nurture Debate

You may share your introduction as a written narrative; however, you are encouraged to practice your technological skills by integrating multimedia into your introduction. For example, you might create a PowerPoint presentation and narrate it with Jing, or you might produce a brief webcam video using YouTube.

Question 2

Compare a ‘representation’ about a specific global cultural topic, issue or event (one that is not exclusive to or centered on the United States) as it appears in the entertainment media (MTV, the network news stations, Fox News, The Daily Show, Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, or suchlike) with how the same topic, issue or event is handled in a respectable international or national news or documentary source (e.g. BBC News, PBS Frontline, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist Magazine, Time, Newsweek). Specifically what do the different sources convey about the subject, the place and the people and what are the possible consequences of any differences found, and in terms of the audiences reached?

Your optional second paper must be the equivalent of 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 double-spaced pages in length, and include a title and a bibliography (see syllabus for further guidelines) and relevant illustrations (not counted in length of paper). You may format this paper as a magazine article so I’ll be less strict about the formatting requirements.