ECE102: Part A: Select and assess an existing activity plan for children: Children as Thinkers and Meaning Makers Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

Part A: Select and assess an existing activity plan for children (25 marks)

Select an existing school- or HQ-based activity plan of your choice. For FT students, ask your Cooperating Teacher for one that s/he will be letting you assess and carry out. Assess the selected existing activity plan by answering the following questions:

Part A Question 1

Provide an overview of the selected existing activity plan. Use the table below to organize your response in bullet points.

Part A Question 2

Describe TWO (2) roles of the teacher as reflected in the selected existing activity plan, and then assess the extent to which each reflects constructivist principles of teaching.

**NOTE TO EXPERT** these are the 2 roles of the teacher ; refer to notes to understand more on these 2 roles & cite online sources for constructivist principles of teaching

1. Teachers as Thoughtful Planners
2. Teachers as Responsive Facilitators

Part A Question 3

Relate the learning dispositions identified in the selected existing activity plan to the five critical thinking dispositions (Stone-MacDonald, Wendell, Douglass & Love, 2015) from this course.

If there are no dispositions included in this existing activity plan, you can explain briefly how the five critical thinking dispositions (Stone-MacDonald et al., 2015) can be fostered through the existing plan.