Capstone Project Proposal Draft

Name of student: Lexy Kruse Date: 03/08/2023

Teacher: Ms.Browne Block: B

The Capstone strand I have chosen is: Project Capstone

Proposed title for my Project Proposal: (write the proposed title for your Capstone Project in one clear

sentence): Emotional intelligence of children in Early Learning Programs

What is your inquiry question that interests you for further research? It should be a question that
connects with a purpose, passion or personalized area of interest for you. This is a question that you
cannot just google an answer for. Please see examples from your Capstone booklet.
My inquiry question is:

How do children in early learning programs view and react to emotions? How might an lesson
planned on expressing emotions help children?

Rationale/context: Detail your reasons for choosing this inquiry question. Explain WHY you are
choosing to investigate this topic as a major area of focus. How does this area of inquiry connect to
your passion(s), purpose? Why is it of personal interest to you?

I have always been passionate about both main ideas of my capstone, that being emotional
intelligence and early childhood education. I want to use my education in ECE to help teach young
kids about the big emotions they may be feeling.

Background: What background knowledge/connections/prior learning do you have in this area of

inquiry?

I have volunteered for 5+ years with children, teaching and monitoring. I am an student in the ECE
dual-credit program with courses run at UFV.

Career connections: What is your intended career area at this point in time? What connections
does this inquiry question have to your life, academic and/ or career goals?

My intended career goal at this point in time Is, broadly, to work with young kids. This inquiry
question will help me become a better care-giver as this will help me better understand the
emotional process young kids go through during development.

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Interdisciplinary and core competencies connections: What subject areas and core
competencies will be connected with your project? Outline and explain the connections.

In this project I will be using my personal knowledge as-well as other participants to gather
information and produce a lesson plan with the following information on emotional regulation and
appropriation for kids ages 0-5. This project will be connected to the following core competencies;
contributing to the community, building relationships, question and investigate, develop and design,
generating and developing ideas, connect and engaging with others, acquire interpret and present
information, self-determination, and well-being.

Capstone Presentation medium: select one or more project mediums you wish to use to present
your project. Outline and give details about how you will present your project once completed. You
may use a combination of mediums.
o Electronic portfolio: Prezi or o Website
PPT o iMovie presentation
o Physical portfolio o YouTube channel

I will be presenting my project through my weebly website. I will use artifacts and evidence while
posting continuously to recreate the process of this project.

Description of my Capstone project. Specific Project Details of the Capstone Project: what will
you research, create, study, produce, solve, investigate? What product will be produced at the end
of this project for evaluation. Write a one-page description outlining your proposal.
(Attatched in the assignment)

Resources/ Technology/Skills: Make an assessment of the resources, technology and skills you
will need to be able to complete this project. What is your plan to be able to access/learn all of the
resources necessary to achieve completion of this project? Detail your plans.

I will use my laptop to document my research and learnings on my website. My plan to access the
resources needed will be using my volunteer-work at a strong-start program that I am currently
helping in.

Mentors/Community Connections: What types of mentor(s)/community connections will you

need to help you complete your capstone project? How will your mentor(s) help you? What is your
plan to access the mentorship/community connections necessary for this project?

I am currently volunteering as an helper for the strong-start program at Donna Gabriel Elementary
where I am being mentored by the facilitator of the program. My mentor will provide me with her

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 expertise in ECE as she has been in the field for many years. My plan to access the mentorship will
be to ask my current mentor if she is willing to mentor me specifically for my capstone project.

Project limitations: What are some project limitations and potential obstacles that you foresee that
might affect progress with your Capstone Project?

Possible obstacles may be, parents not wanting me to conduct an interview on their child. My
mentor not having time for this project. Not having necessities to create an lesson plan.

Other considerations: List and detail any other related information/ considerations about your
project that you feel should be included in your project proposal.

A consideration to this project is, I am only so informed on emotional development as I still have an
long ways to go in my education journey. Being that emotional development with children is a
sensitive subject, I must be hyper-aware of every word I use to formulate my lesson plan and
interviews.

References: Provide a literature review of 5-10 PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC references:

research, videos, etc. that offer some preliminary research you have done for your project that
shows you are able to access the key information that you will need to be able to complete this
project/work. Your list should be written using correct APA formatting.
Literature Review
Notes from article
(summarized in
APA Citation of Article Retrieved from (website address)
YOUR OWN
WORDS)
Larsen, J. T., To, Y. M., & http://www.jstor.org/ In this article, the author goes through
Fireman, G. (2007). Children’s stable/40064601 interviews with children of ages 6-7.
Understanding and Experience The author explores that children
of Mixed Emotions. believe only one emotion can be felt
Psychological Science, 18(2), at a time. He discovers it is truly
186–191. difficult for young children to perceive
http://www.jstor.org/stable/400 the idea that mixed emotions are
64601 common and that we just don’t realize
it.
Kuebli, J. (1994). Young http://www.jstor.org/ In the 90s, when this article was
Children’s Understanding of stable/42725566 written, research on children’s
Everyday Emotions. Young emotions was a very new and also
Children, 49(3), 36–47. taboo subject. The author of this
http://www.jstor.org/stable/427 article writes about the insights into
25566 child emotions and the fact that young
kids are far more emotionally

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 intelligent than previously thought.
The author talks about the effects a
child’s environment has on their
emotional development.
Ho, J., & Funk, S. (2018). . In this article, Ho expresses the
Preschool: Promoting Young https://www.jstor.org/ knowledge that relationships have an
Children’s Social and stable/90019485 immense effect on a child’s emotions.
Emotional Health. YC Young As they use evidence from in-class
Children, 73(1), 73–79. reviews, teachers who prioritize
https://www.jstor.org/stable/90 developing social and emotional
019485 development have more engaged and
happy students.

Fabes, R. A., Leonard, S. A., http://www.jstor.org/ In this article, the authors use the
Kupanoff, K., & Martin, C. L. stable/1132463 question; how do children’s emotions
(2001). Parental Coping with and behaviors portray in the
Children’s Negative Emotions: environment of a crying infant? The
Relations with Children’s authors started an experiment in
Emotional and Social which they found that almost half of
Responding. Child the children responded negatively to
Development, 72(3), 907–920. the cries, 1/5 of the children
http://www.jstor.org/stable/113 responded with smiles, and the others
2463 were un-amused to the cries. This
worked with the authors
understanding surrounding emotional
reactions and the difference between
each response.
Tominey, S. L., O’Bryon, E. C., https://www.jstor.org/ This article uses communication
Rivers, S. E., & Shapses, S. stable/90001479 between educators to endorse
(2017). Teaching Emotional appropriate emotional response from
Intelligence in Early Childhood. students. The conclusion provides an
YC Young Children, 72(1), 6– insight of teaching young kids to use
14. their words by expressing their
https://www.jstor.org/stable/90 emotions. This can be done with
001479 close relationships modelling this
behavior.

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Eisenberg, N., Cumberland, http://www.jstor.org/ This article documents real family
A., & Spinrad, T. L. (1998). stable/1449728 reactions to negative behavior from
Parental Socialization of young children. It is seen that parental
Emotion. Psychological reactions are vital to future emotional
Inquiry, 9(4), 241–273. response throughout the child’s life.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/144 Researchers discover various
9728 emotions and the future work on the
socialization of emotions. This
research concludes possible
explanations for numerous relations.