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Early childhood education philosophies introduction
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The child chosen for this observation is a four year old male, who apparently is a healthy normal child. He weighs 42.5 pounds, and is 44 inches tall. His mother is Hispanic-American and his father is Hispanic; they are married and live together. The child lives with his parents and an older brother (sixteen years old, and not from the same father). He has another brother (nineteen years old, not from the same mother) that comes occasionally to the house. The child’s closest brother is twelve years apart from him. The neighborhood where he lives has restricted access, security personnel, and looks nice and clean. His room and rest of the house are clean and safe as well. He has his own room, TV station, DVD player, books, movies, and his toys, everything seems organized. Electric outlets around the house have a plastic protection cover. Observations The following comments are the result of observations and interviews done to a four year old Hispanic-American child, and his mother on February 13 & 14, 2014. Physically, the child seems healthy; his height is 44 inches tall and weighs 42.5 pounds. According the National Center for Health Statistics’ chart, the child has a healthy weight, although he is a bit higher than the norm. At this age height ranges between 40 inches high, and proper weight should be 40 pounds, (Cook & Cook, 2010). The child does not show delays in his gross motor and fine motor skills. He can jump, run, roll, balance, climb, throw and catch balls with assurance. His eye-hand and eye-foot coordination also look good. He can string small beads, colors very well with crayons, and write his name with a regular pencil. All these are on par with typical skills for this age, (“Best of child”, 2003; PBS, n.d.). ... ... middle of paper ... ...rding to the parameters set for a four year old, this child exhibits a more mature development in the areas of social and language skills.Overall I can say that he is a happy extroverted boy. Word count: 1,064 Works Cited Best of child development: Physical milestones. (2003). Scholastic Parent & Child, 10(6), Retrieved February 19, 2014 from http://search.proquest.com/health/textgraphic/210652910/TextPlusGraphics/107581FDBF8A42F6PQ/1/2?accountid=35796 Cook, G., & Cook, J. L. (2010). The world of children. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc. Gall, S. B., Beins, B., & Feldman, A. (2001). The gale encyclopedia of psychology. (2nd ed., pp. 271-273). Detroit, MI: Gale Group. PBS. (n.d.). Child development tracker: Your four year old. PBS Parents. Retrieved February 12, 2014 from http://www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopmenttracker/four/index.html
...e (My Virtual Child). Dominic is able to read a few short words, write his name and most of the letters in the alphabet. The results also mentioned that he is at an age appropriate level of phonological awareness and his language development is average in vocabulary and retelling a story (My Virtual Child). Cognitively, Dominic is not interested in little art projects and becomes frustrated when he works with blocks and shapes. Dominic is also behind mathematically when counting, identifying quantitative relationships and classifying objects (My Virtual Child). The parenting questionnaire suggests that we are slightly above average in affection and warmth; and we are in the top 15% concerning control and discipline.
Schacter, D. L., Gilbert, D. T., & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Psychology. (2nd ed., p. 600). New York: Worth Pub.
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Waiten,W., (2007) Seventh Edition Psychology Themes and Variations. University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Thomson Wadsworth.
Smith, P., Cowie, H. and Blades, M. (2003). Understanding children’s development (4th ed.). UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Gross motor development is the review of the child’s capability to move in a consistent man...
As a developmental psychologist, it is imperative as a professional to provide specific guidelines for the healthy development of infants, children, and adults as they encounter the four main stages of life. These four phases, beginning with pregnancy and birth, leading to infancy and childhood, adolescence, and ending with adulthood, will be discussed in correlation with specific strategies suggested for maintaining a standard rate of growth in an individual as it relates to each particular stage.
Smith P.J., Cowie, H., & Blades, M. (2003). Understanding Children’s Development (4th ed.). London, UK: Blackwell Publishing. (Chapter 15 covers the work of Vygotsky, Bruner and Call)
Myers, D. G., & Dewall, N. C. (n.d.). Psychology (11th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Danjuma is twenty-four inches tall and twenty-eight pounds. He walks well and has good coordination; he can be seen running, jumping, creeping, crawling, and rolling. He can kick a small ball forward as well as catch a ball using is full body; he can also throw a ball overhand. At home he can turn doorknobs, get himself undressed, and can feed himself using eating utensils. At the Early Head Start Program Danjuma enjoys completing simple puzzles, scribbling, shaking rhythm instruments, manipulating clay, and different finger play activities. He loves washing his hands on his own but requires help at home due to the fact that he can’t yet reach the sink.
A newborn child’s physical and motor development is an evident progression throughout their first years and later in life. A child’s motor development is more of a slower progress, from going to gross motor skills to more fine motor skills in a few months while physical development is an apparent process. The environment affects children in their physical and motor growth, as they learn and adapt to new stimuli everyday as they develop. Separately, these developments start at different times, but function hand in hand as a child grows. Physical development is apparent at conception, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence; while motor development
Peterson, Candida C., James L. Peterson, and Diane Seeto. Child Developement. Vol. 54. N.p.: Blackwell Publishing, n.d. JSTOR. Web. 29 Sept. 2011.
Children discover that they have different abilities and skills such as playing with toys and putting on shoes and these skills show that the child has a growing sense of autonomy and independence (Parrish, 2010). Carl is clearly at stage 2 that is autonomous versus doubt and shame where the child tries to achieve independence and purpose. This is clear from the fact that he will constantly refuse help from his mother especially during mealtimes and likes to feed himself. He will choose what to eat and an example of this is when his mother gave him some pasta with a serving of potatoes, but he refused to eat that and instead wanted to eat fruit pudding. He tends to choose the toys he wants to play with and his mother clearly understands this by asking him which toys he wants each time he wants to play. The efforts of his mother supporting and encouraging him motivates his confidence, security and independence in his own abilities and enables him to survive and take on b activities in the
When he was on the playground he climbed all over the play set that the school offered. Also he consistently ran all around the playground using his legs as the main muscle group to complete this task. Next he sat down for snack time at which point he began using those large muscle groups. When him and his friends were playing he got on all fours and crawled all around the room. Some other gross motor skills that he exhibited were done so as he was standing. Another was building blocks up. It took his fine motor skills to be able to grip the blocks but his gross motor skills to be able to stack the clocks. At one point the child went and put rings on a stick as part of a game reiterated his acceleration is developing essential gross motor skills. During the time slot where the child was sitting to eat his food he had good posture. In Children’s Santrock talks about how posture is something that is developed and is a dynamic development. When babies are first born they are incapable of holding posture. It is important to note that when the child was walking and running both of those actions are considered milestones for gross motor skill development. (Santrock, J. (2015). Children (13th ed.). Madison, Wis.: Brown & Benchmark.)Also when the child was waking up from nap time shortly after I arrived he rolled over in his bead which also is an important milestone in development for children.( Santrock, J. (2015). Children (13th ed.). Madison, Wis.:
Physical and motor development are two similar but different areas that describe child development. Physical development encompasses all of the various changes a child's body goes through. Those changes include height, weight, and brain development. Motor development is the development of control over the body. This control would involve developing reflexes such as blinking, large motor skills like walking, and fine motor skills like manipulating their fingers to pick up small objects like Cheerios. It is important to objectively study physical and motor development in children to gain knowledge on what characteristics are considered typical for each age and stage of development. This will enable me to be aware of when a child or children are developing at an irregular pace, and devise recommendations or find experiences and other resources that can aid in stimulating their development and to work towards closing achievement gaps. This particular assignment was to observe the selected child and reaffirm the importance of studying physical and motor development, and to develop ideas on how to involve it in my work as an early childhood professional.