The observation project component consisted of ten hours, two hours per age grouping. I selected four different settings and enjoyed my time at each place. Each location and setting is different as well as teaching styles. When I observed an infant room at the King’s College Early Learning Center, I was in awe over how well the childcare providers as well as how the classroom is setup. Most importantly I enjoyed my time with the infants. While I was in the room there were 6 infants, most of the infants were not mobile but were very active in play and attempting to be mobile. While I was in this room, I focused my observation on two infants one was a four month old boy and the other infant was an eight month old girl. The four month old boy was babbling, smiling, and mouthing objects. He also was able to support his head while on his stomach and grasp toys with his hand and shake it. The eight month old girl was exhibiting all of the skills as the four month old boy although she was exhibiting other skills as well. She was banging items, sitting up on her own and also pulling up to a standing position using a shelf or another adult in the room. The following age group I observed was older toddlers at Little Meadows Learning Center. While I was in this room there were 14 toddlers that were two years old. I was in this room for circle, free play, centers, outside time and lunch. Throughout this time the children were very active and I decided to observe two toddlers. The first toddler was a boy who turned two about a month ago. From my observations he is loving, strong hearted, likable and highly active. He does not have a large vocabulary and speaks fast. While running at times it seemed as if his feet could not keep up with how ... ... middle of paper ... ...ions and was paying attention throughout the class time. While observing at the settings I took note of some of the techniques that I did not see before or enjoyed. A few that I took note of was while at Wilkes-Barre Academy the teacher taught social-studies. At the start of the year she assigned each child a state as a first name and a capital as the last name. Most of the children from my observations knew all of the states and capitals. Another technique that I observed was in the school age classroom. The teacher would gain the students attention by clapping or playing a rhythm on the piano. The students would then clap it back, this continued until the room became quite and the teacher began to talk. My overall experience of my observations were satisfactory, I enjoyed visiting various centers, meeting new people and observing techniques used in the classroom.
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The environment in which an infant is raise, has to do a lot with his/her development. I was surprise by this observation because there were different personalities. Loui was the child who interact more with the students in the classroom. Also, he was surprise of the things that he was able to do by using his gross motor skills. Charlotte imitate the behavior with the toys that were in the classroom. On the other hand, Benjamin was insecure child that needed to be near his mom/dad. I learned many things from this activity. I was able to understand the concepts because I related to the observation. This will help me in my future
An example when an adult was scaffolding an infant during the time I was observing Lab 1 would be when George of 1 year and 3 months was wobbly walking and exploring his surroundings and worryingly one of the instructors said “no, no” and instead he walked towards another designated play era and uncertain he looked back and made eye contact with the same instructor. She reassured him that he could go play into the area by gesturing and saying “that’s okay ” so he proceeded to play in that area.
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I completed my final observation on October 15 at the UTC Children’s Center at Battle Academy. When I arrived to my classroom, the students were on a field trip so I quickly went down to the fire hall on Main Street to meet up with the class. At the fire hall, parents, as well as the two teachers accompanied the students. The students arrived back in their classroom around 11:10, and that is when the parents left. After the field trip the children ate lunch in the cafeteria, had a brief lesson in the classroom, and played outside. The class I observed was preschool, with most children around 3 to 4 years old. All the children seemed to be developing normally. There were 7 boys and 3 girls present in the classroom.
I got to experience a lot of different age groups, and the different exceptionalities that students had by bouncing back and forth from the different wings in the school. When observing the children in 3rd grade special education, I noticed that they use a lot more assistive technology to help improve the students they use the for the kindergarten through 2nd graders.
When educating young children several factors come into play. Making sure that the child is participating in age-appropriate learning and development activities. In working in a childhood education program, it is important to know a child’s experience and prior knowledge A child is unable to walk before they crawl, they must first master the task in front of them before moving on. Paying attention to a
Adjusting learning and studying strategies can be a fast easy way to improve a college grade from a B to an A. Through studies of learning styles I have been able to decipher my learning types. I am a visual learner, have an integrated brain, meaning I use both hemispheres, and ranked highest in bodily-kinesthetic and logic-mathematical intelligence.
Children develop at their own rate and children of the same age will not necessarily develop the same knowledge and skills. The Early Years – Development Matters document informs practitioners of children’s development from birth to 60+ months. This document is for practitioners to understand the age and stage of development and will help to identify a child whose development is delayed.
The preschooler child displays a variety of physical, cognitive, and social abilities that are quite unlike any other age group. To understand this development fully one must first understand how humans come into being. All human life begins with the single interaction of sperm and ovum. This simple collision springs forth new life. One cell becomes two, two cells become four, and so on throughout the organism’s life span. The human life experience is broken down into nine periods of development. These include: the Prenatal Period ranging from conception to birth, Infancy and Toddlerhood ranging from birth to three years, Early Childhood or Preschool ranging from three to six years, Middle Childhood ranging from six to 12 years, Adolescence
Methods like experiments, field trips or role play are rarely used. Because of that, labs and tutorials are more essential for these learners. Among the methods that can help these learners are by trying to use all the senses in the learning process because the more senses you use the higher recall will be, as you have many clues. In addition, make notes with several examples for each concept and use your own examples, the more personal examples you create, the better you remember. A very important thing to note is that this questionnaire is not designed to predict the ability of someone to make the diagnosis.
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.
Everyone has different learning styles. Learning styles are important because they help you better understand materials in classes. They are there to guide you and become a better student. Learning styles help you better grasp the material and better process it through your brain. When learning you want to do what is most beneficial for you. That is why there is many different learning styles to suit every person. There is three different types of learning styles categorized. The first learning style is auditory. Auditory is meant for individuals that enjoy asking questions, talking and listening, as well as like to read out loud. Visual learners are more interested in charts, graphs, neat surroundings, seeing rather than hearing, and are pictured to be timid as they read to themselves rather than out loud. Finally there is the kinesthetic learning style. Kinesthetic is to touch, to feel, and usually learn by doing.
Now that I have seen three different classrooms as part of my practicum observations, I still believe that there are several acceptable approaches and no universally correct teaching methods. However, my thinking has changed because I have seen that everything done ...
Through classroom observation I was exposed to the different methods of teaching a lesson. The methods of teaching depends on how will the teacher execute the lesson well. I learned that modern learners today needs both modern and traditional way of teaching as for them to fully learned the lesson in a meaningful way.