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This paper will explore my findings of my observation of a young boy, age 28 months, named Jax. Jax is fun little man and happens to be my nephew. I will discuss the attributes and characteristics of Jax that I witnessed in the few hours that I had observed him. Starting with motor development skills, I observed that Jax is a very favorable walker. He is well coordinated, and loves to run. Still, just like any two-year-old, he still stumbles frequently. He loves to play with his toys and can pick up and grasp his toys well. He is great at maneuvering his toys and putting them where he wants them. I did notice that he did favor his right hand regularly. Jax did love to throw things, and catch them as well. However, he seemed to be a bit better at catching things, more so than he was at throwing …show more content…
He was usually the one initiating the interactions, and making proposals for what toys to play with, or what games to play. I feel that I witnessed Erikson’s theory of autonomy versus shame and doubt when observing Jax. He seemed to have succeeded in gaining a sense of self-rule over his body and his actions. Although attached to mother and father, he still would stand up for himself and could find his footing without them around once he was calmed down. I think that this also has to do with the first part of Erikson’s theory, and the first “crisis”, which was trust vs. mistrust, that was present when Jax was younger. The way Erikson explained this was that infants learn whether or not that the world could be trusted to satisfy basic needs. This included “consistency, continuity, and sameness of experience”, which Jax’s mother and father were evidentally successful in this because he was confident enough to explore the social world. I think that Jax is great child, and will continue to grow and move on to new and glorious experiences and adventures throughout his life
During the first nine months of Dominic’s life he was sick several times with colds and digestive complications which are not typical for infants. Physically, Dominic was active the first nine months. At three months he began to start laughing and would focus his eyes on me, the mom (My Virtual Child). At eight months we would play object permanence games which enhanced his cognitive development and at nine months old Dominic was adv...
For my 3rd observation, I observed one full day in a preschool/kindergarten classroom. The number of children in the classroom this day was 20 with ages ranging from 3 to 5. The teaching style in this school is Montessori. This means that formal teaching approaches are not used. Some of the casual teaching used in this classroom is rather than giving the students worksheets to challenge the student’s thinking, the teacher uses the students and other manipulatives for learning. For example, the teacher gave seven students cards with the days of the week on them. The teacher had the students with the cards go to the back of the classroom and scramble themselves up. The others stood by the board. The students that stood by the board got the chance
The first observation I intended was with the infants during the morning between 9:30- 10:30. The infants were 8– 12 months years old. One child that stood out to me showed signs of being overly attached to the teacher. Her name is Miyah and she just turned one years old. The teacher stated that Miyah would be transitioning to T1 (Toddlers who are 1 years old) because she was the oldest infant in the classroom. She also expressed that Miyah would have difficulty in T1 because she was very attached to her. Miyah would follow the teacher everywhere she went. When she became occupied and playing with toy she would frequently look up and see if the teacher was around. Miyah became uneasy when the teacher
For my after school program observation I chose to observe the after-school program at Washington Elementary. This after-school program is held in a small gym and since the gym is used during the day for school activities there was no real floor plan to the program. A small carpet was set in the middle of the gym for circle time and the supplies and check in sheet were kept on a table. The rest of the room was filled with tables that are used for school breakfast.
For this assignment, I chose to interview the daughter of a friend. Sarah is three years old, and she was observed while interacting with kids that ranged in age from one year to almost seven years old. I did the observation in their home to ensure Sarah felt comfortable and relaxed to acquire a more accurate assessment of her temperament.
While having breakfast at a local coffee shop, I was presented with the opportunity to casually observe a child somewhere between 5 and 6 months. Rachel is a very active, happy, giggling little girl. She was sitting at a table with her mother, and another man similar height to mom. I am not sure if this was a relative or a family friend. Rachel was “propped up” on the bench next to mom using a pillow (I think they are called “boppy” pillows) and had two or three brightly colored fabric animal toys. I was sitting three tables apart from the baby and its mother, and there were five other people at the tables around the baby girl and her family.
Throughout this week’s exploration, the children and I had been continuing to explore spiders and spider webs. The children got a chance to look at spider webs and explore how they work. The conversation evolved around how do spiders make web and what would happen if it’s destroyed. Leo’s play of spider family is still present in this week’s exploration and the children had been building upon this idea. In addition, the children started showing interest in what the spider web does. The children started talking about how the insects are wrapped inside spiders’ silky webs and the spiders can catch them.
Social and emotional development served as the primary purpose for a semester-long observation report of a preschool child. The observer used various observation tools such as checklist, running record, anecdotal record with Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) – Preschool to analysis the observation data and gather information of the child. The observations were in two parts, both lasting for an hour and in various locations and settings. The child demonstrated social and emotional development during the observation.
I conducted my observation on October 9, 2016 at my aunt 's house for my cousin 's birthday party, in Antioch, CA. I was sitting in a chair and also in a jumper observing my little cousin Natasha as she was jumping in the jumper. She is 6 years and is in first grade.
While thinking about this assignment many ideas popped into my head about what I could teach however, I wanted to conduct a study that was not only fun and exciting but also educational and beneficial to the future of this child. When it came to choosing a target audience, I wanted to work with someone that was around the age that I want to teach. My son fit perfectly into that category. Initially it was my goal to observe him conducting two activities, these activities were chosen based on their ability to pique the interests of a 4 year old. During the observation phase of the study, I planned to explore the different theorists that we had learned about in class and put my knowledge to test. I used Piaget, Vygotsky,
Observations means noticing what a child is able to do and where they are struggling. It is also knowing whether the child can understand things and say things.
A 3 year 7 month old boy, JL, is referred to you by his pediatrician for his unintelligible speech. He has a repaired bilateral cleft of the lip and palate (BCLP). He has a restricted sound inventory of /m, n, j, h and ʔ/and has no oral high pressure consonants. His receptive language abilities are WNL. He is struggling in the kindergarten due to his unintelligible speech. According to the teacher he has few friends and often gets excluded from group activities by other children .
Eric, I believe the hold was for a few reasons. Respect for her because of her age and being a female, the politics, and empowerment. Employees felt disconnected and did nto want to waste their time (Jones, 2010). Although there were meetings with the board members and anyone could attend, no one had the courage to speak out. I am not sure how she came about the idea of retiring. She has since visited the district and you can still tell when she enters the room. There is a tense feeling as everyone is on edge...:shh, Dr. Witaker is in the office" is what you would hear people say, as if they were afraid she would fire them on the spot for doing something wrong. With the new superintendent, no one knows when he enters a room. A short
At the crack of dawn I had to get ready for the interview with Ms. Bryant. Borrowing Cathy’s car to get to the interview otherwise I would have to catch the bus plus I had to find the place of which I had no inkling as to where it was. The job did not pay much but it was an open door for me and I took it something was better than nothing at all. Ms. Bryant met me at the door invited me in and asked all the usual questions in the interview process. She quickly let me know I was hired then asked for my resume and teaching certificate. She wanted me to start that Monday but I had an appointment to go to court with Cathy on that day as a witness. Hesitantly I explained I had to appear in court I could start the day after. Understanding she replied, alright I will see you Tuesday then. Pulling a copy of my resume and teaching certificate from my folder I give them to
In electing to observe a kindergarten class, I was hoping to see ‘real world’ examples of the social development, personality types and cognitive variation found within the beginning stages of “Middle Childhood” as discussed within our text.