Spending two and half hours in each classroom, I learned a great deal about early childhood education from ages birth through eight, and the effort and skills that it takes to create a stimulating learning environment. For my infant, toddler, and preschool observations, I spent my hours at the CCC Childcare Center located in our college while for my kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade observations, I spent my time at Casey Park Elementary School. During my observations at the CCC Childcare Center, I learned plenty about the methods and practices that go into early education before primary grades. The preschool classroom really stood out to me because the centers in the classroom were very open ended and filled with lots of manipulative for…
When I was pregnant with all my children I would be filled with anticipation with what will they look like and who will they be with they grow up. But the sad part of this anticipation is wishing past every stage of their development to see the adult they will become. I often wonder if my mom thought the same things when she was pregnant with me and I wonder if she likes what she sees now that I am an…
The ways to teach these children is by fostering their development and learning through domains. It is necessary to the child’s lives and future participation as a member of the society. We need to be able to address all domains, and see changes in them that can limit their development…
Observing a child has always been a fascinating experience. It is amazing to see how differently children act in regards to child development theories. I recently observed a 4 year old little girl who I babysit periodically. My observation was conducted after school at the school I am contracted at. For the purposes of confidentiality the name of the little girl has been changed to Kaiya.…
Observation: Rise Program Physical Setting Rise is a beautiful facility. All of the windows looking into the classrooms and looking outside are my favorite because they provide light, openness, and a sense of connection throughout the whole building. The commons is also a great area. It is large and open for all of the kids to spread out and explore their surroundings, while engaging in gross motor activities, such as going down a slide, riding a tricycle, or jumping on a trampoline.…
Initial contact: CW Holland made initial contact with Gylian “William” Long and the three minor children Graylan “Jace”, Gylian “Ethan” and Garren “Cade”. Cade and Ethan are sleep. Ethan is observed to be sleep on the couch. Cade was in the bed room sleep on a blow up mattress.…
One of the new learning acquired through the presentation was the emphasis in which the state of California has put into aligning the Infants/ Toddler Learning Foundation along with the Preschool Learning Foundation. The emphasis is on the four main domains; language, social/emotional, cognitive, and perceptual and motor development. All four domains are crucial for children appropriate…
Developmental Analysis Introduction For this development analysis, I observed the physical, and cognitive development in children Jefferson Elementary in a first-grade class. For this analysis, I will be referring to my target student by the name of John. My observation hours where done between 9:30 and 12 o’clock on Mondays and Wednesdays with children between the ages of six and seven. During my observation time, I notice the different changes their bodies go through by observing their fine motor skills, and gross motor skills.…
The following essay will focus on the film Boyhood (2014) in attempts to explain how three significant events in the main character’s life story, Mason, exemplify developmental changes in the lifespan. There will be references to three developmental domains, cognitive development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources and perceptual skill, physical development referring to growth in the process of puberty and psychosocial development being the expansion of the personality, including the gain of social attitudes and skills particularly according to Erikson theory, the battle of identity vs role diffusion (Sigelman, 2013, p. 38). Boyhood is a story, based over a 12-year period, of growing up captured through the eyes of a…
While watching the video I noticed that teacher was first observing the three children on the slide. The child in the light blue shirt his name is “Nick” and he was trying to interact with the other children. The other children didn’t interact with Nick and he ran over to another area in the classroom where another child was playing with some cars and a tower that allowed the cars to go down different level of the tower. Nick then began to play with cars as well in the attempt to get another child to interact and play with him. Once Nick didn’t get the response back with the other child he then found interest in another toy and then went back to play with cars and repeated what he saw the other child do with the cars and the tower and that…
Child development can be broken down into several areas: • Personal, Social and Emotional – this are of development concentrates on relationships and understanding the child individually. Being able to feel sorry for someone, knowing what behaviour is acceptable and what is not and also gaining the ability to control their emotions. This area can also be connected to cognitive and language development. • Communication and Language – this area concentrates on learning to communicate with others and understanding how their actions…
Introduction I observed a child for 30 minutes and wrote down everything I saw and heard. The child was two years old and a female. She had tan skin, brown eyes, dark curly hair that she wore in pig tails. She wore a white sparkly shirt that had the minions from Despicable Me on it, jeans, and black boots.…
Throughout the observations I noticed there was a relatively even amount of information regarding the four developmental domains: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. The first instance of physical development was in observation two when children were playing outside. Children were climbing the playground and running around in the play area. Children should be encouraged to run around while outside, if they aren’t then children are antsy in times when they need to be quiet and still.…
Interaction between learning and development. Within a good childcare environment Vygotsky theory on zone of proximal development (zpd) should be evident children should accomplish tasks with the help of a competent older child or adult. In order to scaffold the children’s learning it is important that the childcare practitioner observes the children at play and record these learnings they should then incorporate these finding into the child’s learning environment to allow for an emergent curriculum to…
Working with different children that range from different ages is something that I have been able to do in the past well taking other child development classes but this semester well I was taking ECH 320 I was able to get the knowledge of what it might be working with an infant all the way to a child that is eight years old. Over the course of the last eight weeks I have been able to observe what it might be to work with a toddler well reading a book to them or even a chance to conduct a four part experiment where I was able to test a child who was between the ages of four and five as well as conducting the experiment on a child that is six to eight years old. I was able to see what different types of thinking processes a child might have when they are five verses when they are eight. After studying a chapter on what an infant cognitive process is I was able to take that knowledge and put it fourth when I went to do my field work.…