Why early-maturing girls seem to have more difficult outcomes compared to early-maturing boys

Meece, J. L., & Daniels, D. H. (2008). Child and Adolescent Development for Educators (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. I don’t have the book Directions for Assignment 2 for page 1write a 1 page on: Topics may include any of the content from your reading or the PowerPoint lecture. For example, you could discuss why early-maturing girls seem to have more difficult outcomes compared to early-maturing boys. Another topic might be whether high schools should delay the start of the school day given adolescents’ biological tendency to stay up later at night and sleep in later in the morning. How to post Assignment 2: Click on “Add a new discussion topic” to initiate a new discussion thread. Or, continue a discussion that has already been initiated by “replying” to a message in that thread. If you are initiating a new discussion thread, please type in a few keywords for the “Subject.” For example, if you are interested in discussing how to discourage risky behaviors among adolescents, you might type “discouraging risky behaviors” for the “Subject.” Assignment 3: Piaget in Action Before you complete this assignment, you should have already read Chapter 3 and viewed both parts of the Piaget PowerPoint. Follow the link below to watch a video documentary of a teacher using Piaget’s theory to teach math to a second-grade classroom. There are many videos on this webpage. Watch the three videos that are clustered together under the title: “Double-Column Addition: A Teacher Uses Piaget’s Theory.” The three videos are a single video split into three segments, and are approximately 20 minutes altogether. Watch all three segments. http://sites.google.com/site/constancekamii/videos When you have completed the video, answer the following questions: 1. How did the teacher in this classroom utilize Piagetian theory in teaching her second-graders? Be as specific as possible. (Ground your discussion to specific concepts in his theory.) 2. How might a non-Piagetian teacher approach the same skill? (Think about how most of us learned how to solve these types of problems.) How would this non-Piagetian approach differ from the Piagetian approach? What specifically is gained from the Piagetian approach? What limitations are there to the Piagetian approach? 3. In order to determine the effectiveness of the Piagetian approach, what student outcomes should be assessed and in what way? Be as specific as possible. Due Date for Assignment 4: Applying Vygotsky’s Theory Below you will see three discussion topics. Please post at least twice. You can post once in two different topics, or twice in the same topic.

Postings should be at least 3-4 substantive sentences. For paragraph should be about Scaffolding and a paragraph about Case study Analysis. Discussion Topic: Authentic Activities – In this topic, please share/respond to/discuss how you have seen or propose to use authentic activities in your classroom. What is an activity you have tried, and how is it authentic? What is something you might try in the future, and how would it be authentic? Discussion Topic: Scaffolding – In this topic, please share/respond to/discuss how you have used scaffolding or propose to use scaffolding in your classroom. What is the task or skill that you would seek to scaffold? What are the different steps that you might try such that students gradually become more and more independent in mastering that task or skill? Discussion Topic: Case Study Analysis – In this topic, please discuss the case study on teaching geometry. Use concepts from Vygotsky’s theory to discuss this classroom situation.