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Module 3: Assignment Pages

Application: Foundational Personal Visit Plan 2

Imagine you are delivering Foundational Personal Visit Plan 2 to a family with a child in
the 14 to 24-month age range. You have already shared the general definition of each
domain with the family. Based on your reading, what additional two key points might
you offer about each of the domains of development?

Language development:

Cognitive development:

Social-emotional development:
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Motor development:

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Application: Facilitator Role

Considering your role in facilitating information sharing and observation, how might
you use the parent handout 14 to 24 Months: What Is Special About This Age? with the
parent of an 18-month-old child?

(Hint: refer to the column labeled “Look for your child to.” Look in the second column
labeled “What is happening and how you can help.”)

Video: Observing Child Development

Consider the parent educator resource (Looking at Development: 14 to 24 Months)
and the parent handout (14 to 24 Months: What Is Special About This Age?) that you
read prior to watching the visit.

1. In what ways did the information you read prepare you for promoting parenting around
child development?
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2. In what ways did the information prepare you to observe the parent’s strengths?

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Video: Observing Child Development (cont.)

3. What else stood out to you as you observed this visit?

Reflection: Benefits of positive parenting behaviors

1. In a few sentences, describe your current understanding of how positive
parenting behaviors benefit a child’s development and their sense of well-being.

2. How might you describe the importance of nurturing to a parent?

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3. What are some ways to support parents in recognizing the ways they exhibit
the parenting behavior of responding?

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Application: Play-by-Play
Using the play-by-play technique, write one example of a statement you might use to
describe an interaction you saw take place between Bennett and his mom.

When (child’s name) did (action),

mom (response).”

Application: Play-by-Play with parenting behavior

Take the play-by-play description you wrote using the fill-in- the-blank structure
above, and shift it for a conversation with the parent, instead of for documentation.
Add to the statement by identifying the parenting behavior you observed mom using.

“That was a great example of (parenting behavior).

When (child’s name) did (action),
you (response).”
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Application: Introduction to Developmental Topics

1. Using the parent educator resource Developmental Topics, describe the rationale for
why Parents as Teachers chose these eight topics.

2. Using the parent educator resource Developmental Topics, look to the section
of the parent educator resource titled “Your role as a parent educator”. Identify
one recommended strategy from this section that you might use when
discussing this topic with a family.

3. Using the parent handout Parenting Around Development, what prompt or

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question might you use to gain the parent’s perspective on these topics?

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