DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (DECE)

CDT4034
CLASSROOM AND BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT

Assignment Role Play, Group Presentation and Reflective Log

Weightage Role Play: 20%
Group Presentation: 20%
Reflective Log: 20%
Presentation/Report Role Play: 1st March 2022 (Week 7)
and Submission Date Group Presentation: 24th March 2022 (Week 10)
Reflective Log: 5th April 2022 (Week 12)

INSTRUCTIONS
The assignment Part A and Part B must be done in GROUP and entirely the group original
work. Please ensure that you are aware of the rules of concerning plagiarism.

Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly
from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual
effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another student, and
submitting it as your own. According to the procedures, the lecturer will investigate the suspected
plagiarism, and if found to have occurred, it will be dealt with according to the procedures.

DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENTS
The purposes of the assignments are to:
▪ Respond to behaviour issues in early childhood classrooms using appropriate guiding
principles, approaches, and techniques.
▪ Present ways of using the environment to manage behaviour in early childhood.
▪ Report on own ability to manage early childhood behaviour and classroom.

For this assignment, you are required to prepare the following:

▪ ONE (1) role play.
▪ ONE (1) group presentation.
▪ ONE (1) reflective log.
PART A: ROLE PLAY [20%]
In a group of THREE (3) members, choose any challenging behaviour that children may
behave, then create a script and conduct a role play.

What to include in your script and role play?

▪ Describe a challenging behaviour in children.
▪ What is the effective guidance intervention can be taken by the teachers or parents to
overcome the challenging behaviour? Relate to the principles, approaches and/or
techniques.
▪ How can the teachers or parents address and respond to the challenging behaviour?

Subsequently, you are required to decide a role among each group members then play the
respective roles accordingly and creatively. The script of role play should be clearly
describing the role of each member and the scene of the challenging behaviour.

Format of Script:
✓ Format: Words
✓ Font: Times New Roman
✓ Size: 12
✓ Spacing: 1.15
✓ Alignment: Justify
✓ You should include the details of role play (Title/Topic, Members and Roles, Scene),
then tabulate the script in an organized manner.

Submission Procedures:
▪ Submit the softcopy in WORDS and PDF files of the script through assignment link
on Blackboard on 1st March 2022.
▪ Save your file name as in: Group Leader_Full Name_Student
ID_CDT4034_Script
(Example: Group Leader_Poh Wanyi_SCPG21000123_CDT4034_Script)
▪ Record the role play session and submit the video link through assignment link on
Blackboard the latest by 1st April 2022.
PART B: GROUP PRESENTATION [20%]
In this assignment, in a group of THREE (3) members, you are required to prepare a group
presentation and using Power Point Slides (PPT) as your visual aids to describe the
relationship between the environment and the behaviour.

What to be included in the group presentation?

▪ Select only ONE (1) type of environment, either physical environment or social
environment.
▪ Then, explain how the environment with the effective classroom management
practices could nurture appropriate behaviour. You may relate the discussion to the
relevant theories or any recent references.
▪ Design a behaviour agreement chart creatively by including FIVE (5) examples of
challenging behaviours (instead of), realistic expectations (try this), consequences (do
not meet the goals), and reward (meet the goals).
▪ Example of the chart:
Challenging Realistic Consequences
Reward
Behaviour Expectations (Do not meet the
(Meet the goal)
(Instead of) (Try this) goal)
… … … …
… … … …

▪ During the presentation, you should describe and further elaborating all the details in
a clearer manner for your audiences’ understanding.

Format of Reporting:
✓ Format: In any PPT form based on your own creativity.
✓ Font and Size: Appropriate and readable.
✓ Include appendixes/references (if any)

Submission Procedures:
▪ Submit the softcopy in PPT and PDF files through assignment link on Blackboard on
24th March 2023.
▪ Save your file name as in: Group Leader_Full Name_Student
ID_CDT4034_Presentation
(Example: Group Leader_Poh Wanyi_SCPG21000123_CDT4034_Presentation)
PART C: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE LOG [20%]
Assume you are an early childhood educator in a learning centre, you are required to provide
a reflective log to report on your own ability to manage early childhood behaviour and
classroom.

What to be included in the reflective log?

▪ How can you play your role in fostering appropriate behaviour in an early year’s
environment?
▪ Reflect on your personal beliefs, possibilities, and limits of expertise in managing the
children’s behaviour and classroom.
▪ How can you collaborate with the parents and professionals in dealing with the
challenging behaviour and fostering appropriate behaviour in young children?
▪ Support your discussion with relevant theories and/or references.

Format of Reporting:
✓ Format: Words
✓ Font: Times New Romance
✓ Size: 12
✓ Spacing: 1.5
✓ Alignment: Justify

Submission Procedures:
▪ Submit the softcopy in WORDS and PDF files through assignment link on
Blackboard on 5th April 2023.
▪ Save your file name as in: Full Name_Student ID_CDT4034_Reflective Log
(Example: Poh Wanyi_SCPG21000123_CDT4034_Reflective Log)
 PROGRAMME: DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
SUBJECT: CDT4034 CLASSROOM AND BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT: ROLE PLAY (20%), GROUP PRESENTATION (20%), REFLECTIVE LOG (20%)

Marking Rubrics
NAME STUDENT ID

PART A: ROLE PLAY (20%)

Distinction (A/A-) Credit (B+/B/B-) Pass (C+/C/C-/D) Fail
Criteria Marks
100% - 75% 74% - 60% 59% - 50% 49% and below
Content of Script Clearly describe the Describe how the Some explanation on No explanation on how
challenging behaviour challenging behaviour how the challenging the challenging
with appropriate with appropriate behaviour with behaviour with
intervention provided, intervention provided, appropriate intervention appropriate intervention
/100
and how the adults can and how the adults can provided, and how the provided, and how the
address and respond to address and respond to adults can address and adults can address and
it. it. respond to it. respond to it.

Quality of Scene The scene is realistic, The scene is somewhat The scene is realistic The scene is not
class appropriate, and realistic, class and class appropriate. realistic, inappropriate
well-developed which appropriate, and The concepts could be for class, and poorly
has clearly incorporated developed which has identified. developed which failed /100
the concepts. incorporated some of to incorporate the
the concepts. concepts.

Organization Well-organized and the Fairly well-organized A little organized and Poorly organized and
transitions between the and the transitions limited smooth the transitions between
role play flowed between the role play transitions between the the role play flowed
/100
smoothly. flowed smoothly at role play. poorly.
most times.
Impact Fully engaged the Managed to engage the A little engagement Failed to engage the
audience and delivered audience and deliver with the audience and audience and deliver the
the information the information at most limited information information. /100
effectively. times. delivered.
Total (400)
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION
Presentation Well-prepared and Good preparation and Some preparation and Lack of preparation and /100
managed to play the managed to play the managed to play the poorly playing the roles.
roles confidently and roles accordingly. roles with limited skills. /100
vividly.
/100

Total (500)

Weightage (20%)

Lecturer’s Comments:

Lecturer’s Name Lecturer Signature Date

 PART B: GROUP PRESENTATION (20%)
Distinction (A/A-) Credit (B+/B/B-) Pass (C+/C/C-/D) Fail
Criteria Marks
100% - 75% 74% - 60% 59% - 50% 49% and below
Organization of Clearly describe the Describe the Some explanation on No explanation on the
Content relationship between the relationship between the the relationship between relationship between the
environment and the environment and the the environment and the environment and the /100
behaviour. behaviour. behaviour. behaviour.

Design of The design met the The design met some The design met a little The design does not
Behaviour aspects of all aspects of requirements of the aspects of all meet the aspects of all
Agreement requirements to nurture and somewhat nurturing requirements to nurture requirements to nurture
Chart appropriate behaviour in appropriate behaviour in appropriate behaviour in appropriate behaviour in /100
children. children. children. children.

Total (200)
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION
Presentation ▪ Clearly express the ▪ Clearly express the ▪ Express the ▪ Express the contents
contents in a contents in a contents. in unclear way. /100
professional professional ▪ Lack of confident in ▪ Lack of confident in
manner. manner. delivering the delivering the /100
▪ Confident in ▪ Completely message. message.
delivering the delivering the /100
message. message.

Total (300)

Weightage (20%)
 Lecturer’s comments:

Lecturer’s Name Lecturer Signature Date

 NAME
STUDENT ID
PART C: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE LOG (20%)
Distinction (A/A-) Credit (B+/B/B-) Pass (C+/C/C-/D) Fail
Criteria Marks
100% - 75% 74% - 60% 59% - 50% 49% and below
Organization of Writing shows high Writing is coherent and Writing is coherent and Writing lacks logical
contents degree of attention to logically organized with logically organized. organization. It shows
logic and reasoning of transitions used between Some points remain some coherence, but
points. Unity clearly ideas and paragraphs to misplaced and stray from ideas lack unity.
leads the reader to the create coherence. Overall the practice. Transitions /100
conclusion and stirs unity of ideas is present. evident but not used
thought regarding the throughout writing.
practice.

Academic Writing ▪ Writing is original, ▪ Writing is rather ▪ Text dependency is ▪ High level of text
clear and concise. original, clear and evident. dependency.
▪ No spelling, grammar concise. ▪ Limited fluency ideas ▪ Unclear writing and
and/or punctuation ▪ A few spellings, due to unnecessary difficult to
error. grammar and/or words and/or understand. /100
punctuation errors. sentences. ▪ Major spelling,
▪ Some spelling, grammar and/or
grammar and/or punctuation errors.
punctuation errors.

Citation and All citations and Some citations and Some citations and No citations and
References references provided references provided references provided references provided
/100
according to Harvard according to Harvard according to Harvard according to Harvard
style with no errors. style with some errors. style with many errors. style.
Total (300)
Weightage (20%)
 Lecturer’s comments:

Lecturer’s Name Lecturer Signature Date