Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies

Read the article 10 Effective DAP Teaching Strategies, presented by the NAEYC.   

Choose at least three (but no more than five) of these strategies and explain why they will work with a child in Piaget’s Preoperational Stage.  Give examples of how you can foster each of your chosen strategies in the classroom/home and explain how and why these will increase the child’s cognitive advances.  

Choose two of the limitations (centration, irreversibility, focus on states rather than on transformations, transduction, egocentrism, animism, and the inability to distinguish appearance from reality) experienced by a child in this stage and explain how your chosen strategy will help diminish these limitations.  

Using the information from your text, the given article, and one additional resource, submit a two- to three-page paper giving a summary of each of the strategies chosen, as well as an explanation of how each strategy will positively affect the two limitations.  

Criteria:

1. Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include at least one scholarly resource in addition to the text.
3. Must include, on the final page, a reference list that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
4. Must be well organized and reflect college-level writing.

Carefully review the Grading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.