Target Child Observation

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In these observations, I had observed the social cognitions of the target child between teachers and peers. The result is the target child is not good at social relationships with peers, but she would like to get along with teachers that she listens to teachers and follows the rule well. The target child preferred to play with her peers, but every time she tried to get close to her peers, she stood there, listen for a minute or shorter, and then left. She might not know how to join their conversation since her peers did not talk to her when she was with them. The teachers would talk and ask her what to do and what she was doing, then she would like to share her ideas and get close to teachers. The hypothesis of this observation that I created is every child is afraid to be alone that they would …show more content…

I found I am wrong with the hypothesis that I found that the target child in these observations did not have good relationships with peers that she did not know how to start the conversation with peers that she would more likely to be alone. The consistent with the previous studies that the target child had good relationships with teachers that she would like to ask the teachers for help, she was cooperative when the teacher was helping. Is it because of the teachers are the leaders, adults in the classroom that made her think that she had to listen to them? in the last behavior that I observed was she would like to be with teachers even though going to the restroom. In these situation, I would say the target child is more likely to be with adults than children. The level of me and my partner’s inter-rater reliabilities is low with the running record because we record more often and whatever we saw. I would not record the behaviors when I was taking notes, but my partner had a chance to record what I did see, this is the reason why the results show that my partner and I have low agreement on the running record

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