College of Teacher Education

Subject Code: AS 3 ECE 2

Subject Description: Foundation of Early Childhood Education
Time: 8:30-11:30
Day: Saturday
Course Instructor: ELVIN A. DIANTAN, M.A.Ed.- ECE

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Course Instructor: ELVIN A. DIANTAN, M.A.Ed.-ECE
Reflective Reactive: A reflection Paper on Influential People/Theorists of ECE

Goals/objectives: Write a reflection paper to develop the following skills:

● Pause and process material of learning and link it with one’s previous ideas.
● Develop greater ownership of the material of learning, making it more personally
meaningful to oneself and improving one’s grasp of it;
● Assess one’s own thoughts and actions, for the purpose of personal learning and
development.
● Enhance your “voice” in your learning (speak with conviction about your
knowledge/opinion).
● Relate one’s prior learning experiences to the learning outcomes of an existing ECE
program

Activity:

● Now that you have had a general overview of some of the main influential theorists, it’s
time to reflect on which ones make sense to you.
● Write a reflection paper (2-3 pages double spaced)
● Choose two theorists: one that you MOST agree with and one that you most
DISAGREE with.
● In your introduction, tell me of your three (3) choices.
o A brief summarization what he or she believed in
o What do you like about the theory and why?
o What do you not like about the theory and why?
The process is essentially, continuing the following elements:

1. Description - who are your chosen theorists? What are their

respective theories? Summarize each briefly in five
sentences.
2. Feelings - what are you thinking and feeling about the theories?
3. Evaluation - what was good and bad about the theories/experiences?
4. Analysis - What sense can you make of the theories/situations?
5. Conclusion - What else have you learned/could you have done?
6. Action Plan - What have you found very applicable to you as future ECE
Teacher.

Reflective Practice Rating Rubric

Indicator not met Indicator Total

Partially Met 10 Indicator Met 15
Rating 0-9 Unacceptable Rating
Superior (51-60 Rating
Indicator Minimal (10-39 Sufficient (40-50 60/60=
points)
points) points) 100%

Well written, clear

Moderately clear response that
Clarity of Unclear, and simple represents a logical
Content and disorganized and/ or response; awkward flow of ideas;
style difficult to follow. use of words; appropriately
sentence structure. constructed
sentences.

Marginally Issue is well

Fails to ground issue
grounds issue on grounded on theory
on theory/research;
Analysis and theory/ research; and research; use of
inaccurate
synthesis of inappropriate referred journals;
information
research and references to demonstrates
provided; appropriate
theory support statements; analysis and
references are not
minimal analysis synthesis of
provided.
and synthesis theory/research.
 Marginally
Addresses full
Superficial, minimal addresses
complexity; of issue;
effort reflected in complexity of
is logical;
work; fails to issue; demonstrates
Discussion of demonstrates
adequately address marginal
Content independence of
issue; no evidence of understanding;
thought; well
support by research marginally
supported by
and theory supported by
research and theory.
research and theory

15 or more spelling
and/or technical 6-14 spelling Fewer than 6 spelling
Mechanics errors, such as and/or technical and/or technical
punctuation or errors errors.
grammar