Community Center Proposal

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapters 5, 7, 8, 11, and 12, which are the primary chapters in the textbook and provide you with the theoretical foundations for this project. Many of the other resources in the previous weeks may also be helpful.

Remember that you have already created nine of the required 15 activities for this assignment in Weeks 2, 3, and 4. You received feedback from your instructor and from the Writing Center on those activity papers. You are expected to incorporate that feedback into the nine activities already created. During this last week, you will place those activities in the appropriate room in your proposal and create the remaining six activities.

Focus of the Final Project:

Your community is planning to open a brand-new child development community center. Now that you are an expert in the field, you have been chosen to create a proposal for interactive, fun, and educational programming activities that will be provided for children and adolescents in this center. The chosen activities must be developmentally appropriate and based in theory. You will present your ideas to the city council with a written proposal describing the programming in detail. You have been asked to propose programming for the following five different age groups in the child development community center:

• Infant (0-1 year)
• Toddler (1-3 years)
• Early Childhood (3-6 years)
• Middle to Late Childhood (7-12 years)
• Adolescence (13-18 years)

Use this

to organize your proposal. Enter the requested information on the title page where indicated. Where you find the text, In this section you will describe the activity … within the proposal template, please remove that and enter your own content. The headings in bold should not be altered. The final content for each room will consist of three paragraphs that will address three distinct activities that address physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development for that age group. Table 5.1 in your textbook will be very useful in identifying the major milestones in physical development.

In your Community Child Proposal,

• Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).
• Identify the specific domain related theory concept that supports the use of this activity.
• Identify how the activity enhances physical, cognitive, or psychosocial development.

Special Notes:

A good way to brainstorm different age appropriate activities is using Googles search tool before researching. Please review

. For example, enter activities to support cognitive development in toddlers and numerous sites with suggested activities will be displayed. Remember that your activities may be simple (especially with newborns), but they must also be specific and age appropriate, and you are to connect them to developmental theory within the proposal. You must also cite the sources in your proposal.

While much of the theoretical support for your proposal will come from the textbook, you must include information somewhere in the proposal from three credible or scholarly sources. If you included a source in your Weeks 2, 3, and 4 papers, then you have already met this requirement. Just transfer the source to the final proposal. Remember to cite all your sources (including the textbook) according to APA.

First, be sure to read ALL OF THE DIRECTIONS carefully.

It is required that you add the following elements. Remember to use the template that is in the assignment directions. Click where it says template and you will be able to download it to use with your assignment.

REQUIRED:

1. The paper is to be 9 full pages and written like an essay.

2. Include a formal introduction that addresses the Town Council and explains that you are proposing 5 Community Center rooms (more on that in a moment). The purpose of the Community Center is to provide age appropriate/developmental activities for infants, children, and adolescents (teenagers). Explain that the theories support the activities

3. The rooms are listed in the assignment and note that you now are adding a Toddler (1-3 years) room and a Middle to Late Childhood room (7-12 years). I helped you by extending infant to (0-2) and early childhood from (3-5) so that you would already be familiar with the age groups and milestones.

4. For each room, you are to propose ONE physical development activity based specifically on a physical milestone (Table 5.1 in our text), ONE cognitive development activity based on a specific cognitive theory (use Piaget which is easiest to match to ages), and ONE psychosocial development activity (base it on Erikson’s theory as they are age based). BOTH the theory and the activity need to be added for each.

5. A conclusion that addresses that Town Council and explains how the addition of the rooms will help with the overall development of the youth in town.

6. REVISE using my comments, your information for the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial portions and add those to your final paper. The introduction, toddler, middle childhood, and conclusion sections will be new material. If you do not revise your other rooms using my comments, the final grade will not be as good as if you do read/use my comments.

Please note the 9 pages does not include cover or reference page!