DSN M1 Teaching and Supporting Children With Special Needs

Assignment Questions – 55%

1. Attachment theory is meant to describe and explain people’s enduring patterns of relationships across the lifespan. Mary Ainsworth is a prominent researcher who advanced the theory of attachment. Parenting style, on the other hand, are standard strategies that parents use in their child rearing. Discuss your attachment style as a child and your mother and/or father’s parenting style. How do your attachment style and the parenting style affect
your present relationships? (1000 words)
▪ Briefly elaborate on Mary Ainsworth’s theory of attachment and its styles
(200words or less)
▪ Briefly elaborate on a couple of parenting styles (200words or less)
▪ Discuss the parenting style that you were brought up in. Were your father’s and mother’s parenting style the same? Or different? How different?
▪ Discuss your attachment style as a child.
▪ How did that affect your present relationships – with family members, peers, how you treat your own children (if you have any).

2. The theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner expanded the definition of intelligence. (a) Describe the benefits of this theory in everyday life (for example, in school setting). (b) Assess the type of intelligence(s) that you possess by drawing references to your learning and information-processing styles, as well as how you express your knowledge. (1000 words)
▪ Talk about the 8 intelligences, describe them in your own words (cite the theorist / article / website).
▪ How applicable do you think these intelligences are? In what context – at home / in school / play time?
▪ In your context (Singapore), which intelligence do you think is the most important? ▪ Do you think these intelligences can be trained / further developed?
▪ How do you recognise these intelligence in yourself?
▪ How did one/ a few of them surface in your everyday life? Were you able to complete certain tasks better than others, because of your strength in _____.
▪ When you were schooling, did you realise that you were good in certain activities / subjects because of _____.