Expressing their emotions and talking about them can help children to understand acceptable social behaviour. Not being able to this can lead to temper tantrums or other challenging behaviour. •Behaviour- Language can be used to set limits and boundaries for children behaviour. Children model their own behaviour on others and if adults can effectively communicate and exchange age or developmental appropriate information with children this can encourage them to behave in acceptable ways. Frustration at their own inability to communicate effectively can lead to behavioural problems.
Behaviour therefore whether positive or negative becomes a means of expressing either displeasure or approval from the one displaying it as a means of communicating. Examples of behaviours may include; • Hitting/Lashing out • Aggression • Polite and warm nature • Withdrawn or self-seclusion • Frustration 1.2 Children go through various stages of development and the ability to express themselves and understand others give young people the foundation to control their emotions hence behaviour as they develop self-control. Speech, Language and Communicational Needs can therefore affect a young Person in various ways namely; 1. Inability to talk; speech impairment: - children will miss out on vital play time and interact with peer. In ability to ask for things from parents, resulting in snatching, clinging to things even when there are supposed to give them back 2.
Spending time going through the learning activities and seeing how children have responded to a certain task or question, can really help change it for future activities. It is also important to look back at the learning objects so you can measure what the children have learned. It is important to have clear objectives at the planning stage, in order to evaluate whether pupils have achieved them after the lesson. If children have rushed through the activity and then looked bored then it would be obvious that the task was a bit too easy and not really suitable or beneficial for that group. Therefore you would need to try and make it more engaging and stimulating, perhaps by making it more difficult or time-consuming so the students really have to work to complete it.
Communication with other children may be limited which could affect the child's emotional and social development as the child may feel left out which could leave them feeling sad or even angry within the situation. This could then lead to the child not wanting to join in with future activities. 2.1 The main influences that can affect a child's development is their parents. Parents will affect the background of a child as they are the ones who bring the child into the world and also cultural beliefs are pass down from the parents, also if there is any abuse in the family background this will affect the child's development as they may experience more sad and angry emotions. The child's health will also be influenced by the parents as they could pass on a genetic disorder on to the child for example a heart problem and they could spend a lot of time in hospital and miss out socialising with peers .
Firstly, the ideas of being isolated from a friendship group is a daunting vision for many youngsters, and are thus willing to adopt the groups norms and values if it means they will acquire popularity or just to be part of a group. The peer group is a secondary agent of socialisation which means they develop and further reinforce the learning one was once subjected to in early childhood. A peer group that holds good values, like hard work may encourage its members into positive things, yet one that has detrimental values may lead to deviant behaviour. In spite of this influence, some may argue that the media in today’s media saturated world has become the most influential agent of socialisation. Stereotypes related to gender are regularly portrayed in the media.
However in a situation like this practitioners need to recognise that when the child needs to be referred to others. Sometimes children’s behaviour could show some signs that they need some extra support. This means that a practitioner needs to recognise when children need to be referred to another colleague or a professional. However a practitioner needs to encourage positive behaviour and manage children’s common behaviour. Specific types of unwanted behaviour that should be referred to others: • When pupils are a danger to themselves and/or others • When you are dealing with a difficult situation on your own • If pupils are not carrying out your instructions and you are not in control of the situation • When you are not comfortable dealing with a pupil, for example they are behaving in a threatening manner or behaving unpredictably • When an incident is serious enough to warrant the involvement of a senior member of staff.
We may regularly work with children in small groups or on a one-to-one basis. We are likely to be the person who the child feels more comfortable to talk to when the rest of the class are not around. It is important that we know how to recognize when abuse may be happening and what action we should take. While we must avoid jumping to conclusions we must always be observant. We may notice physical signs or changes in a child’s behaviour, or the child may hint or disclose to us that they are being abused or bullied.
This is so that these barriers do not put a strain on the partnership and relationship parents and practitioners have. Barriers can lead to the parents becoming more emotional such as anger or show distress about it. Leading onto more prejudice attitudes and having different expectations on rules. It can all spiral out of control if not stopped, which not the help the child would reach their full potential as the child is the main focus, as their wellbeing is one of the most crucial part (paramount) while in the setting. Barriers come in many forms, such as when key persons are doing observations and planning.
'Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding. It also benefits learners as it encourages enitgagement and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas.' (Kyriacou 1995 in Desforges 1995, pg. 126) I am of the opinion that the idea children should work in mixed ability groups is not always a viable option. I feel it is important to take into account the personalities of the children, as learning may be inhibited if one child is particularly domineering or intimidating.
They may think this because of their past or because they are being bullied. When people feel like this they will feel scared to go and talk to someone about their problems. In this situation we would go and help them and talk to them and help them bring their self-esteem up by doing activities with them. Lack of support is another we may come across. Not knowing who we can contact for advice and support for information or help.