1. Welcome! I am so glad that you were able to make it tonight. Grab something to drink, get comfortable and enjoy chatting with your classmates before the seminar begins at 8 PM.

2. "When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them." Laura Bush (2003) Moscow Children's Book Festival, reported in Library and Information Update, November 2003

3.  Social and moral development  Psychosocial development  Factors influencing psychosocial development  Unit Six project  Language and literacy development  Factors influencing language and literacy development

4.  Read ◦ Chapter 9: ◦ "Social Learning and Social Cognition" ◦ "Social Interactions and Play Behaviors" ◦ Chapter 10: ◦ "Information-Processing Perspectives" ◦ "Literacy Development" ◦ "Role of the Early Childhood Professional"  Watch 2 Videos on cognitive and emotional development  Read web resource - "Infant and Toddler Transitions"  Respond to discussion questions  Complete project – Parent Handout

5.  Egocentric  Pro-social behaviors  Moral development

6.  Temperament  Social Interactions/Play  Toddler Emotions  Fears and Anxieties  Self-Comforting Behaviors  Self-concept  Gender Awareness  Psychosexual Development  Awareness of Diversity  Development of Self-control

7.  Quality of attachments  Support and encouragement of a sense of autonomy  Temperament  Guidance/discipline techniques  Opportunities for social interactions  Quality of play experiences  Social learning in many contexts  Support for special development needs  Toddler mental health

10.  Go to our WikiSpaceWikiSpace  Watch video “Growing Minds – Cognitive Development”  Read “9 Secrets of Confident Kids”  Based on these two resources, what can you as an EC professional do to encourage cognitive development in toddlers?  Please wait to share until I call on your group. ◦ Group 1 is first names beginning with A-J ◦ Group 2 is first names beginning with K-M ◦ Group 3 is first names beginning with N-Z

11.  Information Processing perspectives  Social interactionist perspectives  Contextualistic perspectives  Language development  Interaction between thought and language  Vocabulary development  Oral language approximations  Literacy development

12.  Is reliant on sensory experiences  Is perception bound  Is egocentric and lacks perspective  Relies on language for meaning  Makes meaning by relating past/present  Benefits from repetition  Developing sense of cause and effect  Awkward in organizing/expressing thoughts  Awkward in organizing/retelling events  Impulsive  Confuses fantasy/reality  Very literal  Appears to be illogical to a mature thinker *The Young Child, page 286

13.  Biological origins of thinking and language  Variety of print contexts  Types and quality of experiences  Diversity in play