Question Description
I’m working on a exercise and need support.
Write a two- to three-page paper in which you address one of the following scenarios:
- You are an elementary school principal who is committed to
ensuring that students experience a developmentally appropriate
environment. You are tasked with introducing a new state-mandated,
textbook-based curriculum to your Kindergarten teachers. How do you
recommend they integrate this while maintaining a DAP environment? Is
there a way to make this Kindergarten textbook developmentally
appropriate? (Think scaffolding here.) Use the Kindergarten standards
for reading from your state in your response and discuss the guidelines
for developmentally appropriate practice from the required text.
- You are a parent who is concerned about the new state-mandated, textbook-based curriculum for Kindergarten, and you are writing a letter to the school board in protest of this new policy. In your letter, define DAP, describe the benefits of DAP, and explain why you feel this curriculum may be inappropriate. List potential negative effects of this curriculum and how it is developmentally inappropriate to literacy development. Suggest an alternative approach to developing literacy skills.
