Essay 1 In this essay you will be finding out the importance of not being subjective. Subjective means that you are ‘of, relating to, or emanating from a person's emotions, prejudices, etc.’ (Collins English Dictionary , 2011) This means you would be influenced by your own personal feelings and would be judging a child. This could be because of how the child has behaved before. By doing this, you would be recording the behaviour that you expect the child to be doing rather than what the child is actually doing. This is bias because you are not recording what you actually are seeing and you are going against the child. You should be objective when carrying out an observation. Objectivity is when you are not influenced by personal feelings and are being fair. This makes your observation valid. Validity is when you are being honest, truthful and legally binding. (Collins English Dictionary, 2006). You do not think about the preconvieved ideas that you may have on that child because otherwise you may begin to write down the type of behaviour that the child may do and not what they are actually doing. The child may have been naughty the day before but today is a new day and therefore you should only record what you see on that day. When carrying out an observation you should be subjective which means you should not be bias. (Tassoni, 2005) Bias is when you have amental tendency or inclination, esp an irrational preference or prejudice (Collins English Dictionary , 2011). This means you are being prejudice and are judging someone or having an idea about them before actually knowing anything about that person. In childcare it could be that you have been told a child is always misbehaving and then when you go to do an observation o... ... middle of paper ... ...ve either not agreed to or withdrawn their permission. You need to explain to the parents or guardians that that confidentiality will occur. Confidentiality is when information is kept private from anyone but those that are authorised to do so can see it. In this case it will be yourself and your supervisor and the parents or guardians. Information you gain from the observations you may need to be passed onto other professionals. For example if there is a child protection issue then you may find you have an observation of when a child is acting differently to normal. This could be being aggressive or punching something continuously. This may need to be passed on to the designated person for the setting first then the head teacher and the if required social services. Information passed onto professionals should only be passed on if there is a good reason to do so.
During this assignment, I needed to observe infant/toddler from birth to 36 months. The observation was for 30 minutes while the infants interact with the world. While the observation, I created a running record observation to keep track of the developmental domains. The observation took place in the ECE classroom. There were three children which were Charlotte, Loui, and Benjamin. They were placed in the center of the class where there was different kinds of toys. During the observation, Charlotte and Loui were interacting with one another. However, Benjamin wasn’t interacting at all. Loui interacted with classmates and went outside the circle to get some toys.
In more familiar terms, bias is linked to being subjective rather than objectivity, having a closed mind rather than open mind, and relying on opinions rather than facts. Bias is something that happens in everyday life often; have you ever made a snap judgement of someone without knowing all the facts? If so you are guilt of being biased. Unlike these small day to day biases that occur, bias in court something that can destroy the credibility of our legal system.
Child Observation Record (COR) is the checklist that evaluates children’s learning in the five content areas. Each day, teachers observe children at play in natural and authentic situations and then take notes about children’s behavior. These records are gathered to help teachers evaluate children’s development and plan activities to help individual children and even the whole classroom make progress. For teachers, the Preschool Program Quality Assessment (PQA) is used to evaluate whether the whole High Scope program and the staffs are using the most effective classroom and program management
It may be important to observe a child but at the same time it may mislead you into being judgmental, too soon. For instance, if you observe a child misbehaving, not getting along with the other children or talking back to the teacher, you might get the impression that he/she is a 'bad' child and you might treat and act differently with that particular child.
Plan for when and where observations will be conducted. Observation will take place at the child’s home with another child and then with parents, out in public that allows interaction with different children, at a family event with a larger group of children and caregivers. These observations will be conducted at different times of the day to allow a variety of interactions and non-repetitive interactions, different times of the day can affect how tired the child is, whether the child interacts better in the morning first thing or the afternoon and how it affects her emotional mood. These different observation locations allow the child to be observed in different situations with one on one play, interactions with adults, interacting with groups of children in new environments and to see how well the child relates to other
Observation allows researchers to experience a specific aspect of social life and get a firsthand look at a trend, institution or behaviour. It promotes good communication skills, improves decision making and enhances awareness.
Children begin to develop from birth and the first five years of child’s life are important. Likewise, children achieve different abilities by a certain age, which is called developmental milestones. The area of developmental milestones are physical, cognitive, language, and social and emotional. It is essential for teachers to understand how infants and toddlers develop over time. Therefore, teachers should observe their children to assess their developmental levels. Through observation, teachers can discover children’s interest and personalities and prepare lesson plans for children. A natural observation would be suited for this specific observation, because teachers can observe children’s natural behavior. Through this assignment, I can observe children’s developmental milestones that will reflect my future teaching.
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This essay will begin by discussing how an individual 's attitude is often scrutinised as being either positive or negative, how this can be damaging to their happiness and how realistic thinking can be more helpful.
Observation is important as the practitioner can find out what the child is interested in and what motivates them to learn alongside their progress and how they behave in certain situations, additionally at the same time it identifies if children need assistance within certain areas of learning or socially (DCSF, 2008). Furthermore the observations check that the child is safe, contented, healthy and developing normally within the classroom or early years setting, over time the observations can be given to parents as they show a record of progress which helps to settle the parent and feel more comfortable about their child’s education. Observations are not only constructive within learning about an individual child, they can be used to see how different groups of children behave in the same situation and how adults communicate and deal with children’s behaviour (Meggitt and Walker, 2004). Overall observations should always look at the positives of what children can complete within education and not look at the negatives and all observations should become a fundamental part of all practitioners work alongside reflection (Smidt, 2009).
A child may suffer from personal factors such as history of violent behavior, a victim of child maltreatment and attributing hostility towards others is imperative.
responding to parental demands for confidential information. Professional School Counseling, 6(2). Retrieved March 6, 2004, from MasterFILE Premier.
Observation, combined with anecdotal records, is essential, especially in the early grades. By observing and keeping track of these observations, teachers are able to tell a lot about their students. For example, they can see how they interact socially with other peers as well as how well they carry out a given task. I am inclined to be an early elementary teacher, in grades K-3. The first years of school are my ideal age group. The early childhood stage is a time when children develop the most. They are developi...
Perceptual Biases: People attend to stimuli in the environment in very different ways. We each have shortcuts that we use to organize data. Invariably, these shortcuts introduce some biases into communication. Some of these shortcuts include stereotyping, projection, and self-fulfilling prophecies. Stereotyping is one of the most common. This is when we assume that the other person has certain characteristics based on the group to which they belong without validating that they in fact have these characteristics.