CHCCN302A. Provide Care for Children Assignment 1: Off the job Read the following case study and describe how you would plan to meet the emotional needs of Max within the childcare service. Max • Aged 3 and a half years • Attendance pattern: Five days per week, he only commenced two weeks ago • Family: Two parents, no siblings. • Other information: • Floppy teddy bear accompanies Max to care each day and is used at rest time • Limited friendships amongst peers • Quiet and often withdrawn uses aggression to initiate contact with other children - has difficulty initiating play • Has developed a strong friendship with Jesse (neighbour). Scenario Max's parents are concerned about his socialisation and that is one of the reasons he is in care five days per week.
Welty said, “Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been something of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother though we children should grow up with.”(Welty, 391) I remember my father giving me his old Hardy Boys books when I was about eight years old. His words are still in my head,“These were my favorite books as a kid and I want you to enjoy them as I did when I was seven. These books kept me out of trouble,” he laughed. At first I was not really into the Hardy Boys, but since my father loved them I wanted to enjoy them like he did. “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.”(Alexie, 397) Parents want their children to succeed in life and they know without literacy the world would be a tough place.
Young Children’s Symbolic Behaviour This assignment sets out to analysis observational material, that I have gathered over the course of study for this module. The process involved maintaining an ongoing observational study of symbolic behaviour in a child in my early childhood education and care setting. For the purpose of confidentiality I will refer to the child being observed as Target Child A (TCA) and the other children as (OC) Symbolic behaviour is “the ability to represent objects, people and abstract concepts with arbitrary symbols, vocal or visual, and to reify such symbols in cultural practice”. (Lewis-Williams, 2002), It is important for all educators to have an interest in understanding children’s minds. Children are complex thinkers and they need to be prepared and encouraged to play and to think .
Jean Piaget’s theory was based on systematic (schema) study for our cognitive development. Piaget believed that there were stages that you had to achieve in order to move on to the next. The order of the stages: Piagets theory came in to place by observing children. A way of applying his theory to the classroom is “use concrete props and visual aids whenever possible...” (McLendon, 2011) In my practice we set up activities for each individual need of each child to help them progress through the stage of the theory which links to Piagets theory. Lev Vygotsky’s theory was based on social/emotional development needs to show demonstration/imagination to allow a child to progress.
Through observation, we can learn what the child can do, what the child likes or dislikes, how the child behaves under various circumstances and how the child interacts with people. Collecting data and measuring student behavior in a formal manner is an especially important aspect of effective teaching for the following reasons: Identifying Current Level of Performance Observing behavior helps to pinpoint where the child currently is on instructional objectives. Teachers often measure children's behavior before they provide instruction. This is called baseline data. Baseline data helps the teacher decide how far the child is from where he or she should be.
a man who felt self pitying and blame his mother for the lack of love in his adolescence to a self confident and secure person at the end. In this world more care about money than people and more worry about small things than the family unit, brings people into family discussions and frustrations everyday. In the story A Visit to Grandmother Doctor Charles Dunford a gentle and warm man who overcomes the frustration of his painful past, start his hero’s journey when he decided to separate from his family at the age of fifteen. “I wanted to go to school. They didn’t have a Negro school at home, so I went up to Knoxville and lived with a cousin and went to school”, this was the answer of Doctor Charles Dunford when he is asked why he left home, but the truth hide something more painful and difficult to overcome.
Jackson’s life at home consisted of growing up in a single parent home with just his mother Tina as his primary parental figure. Jackson’s biological father was never a part of his life. The only male parental figure that Jackson ever had in his life was his mother’s boyfriend Michael, who would often attempt to be the father figure that Jackson needed when he felt that Jackson needed him to do so. Being raised all of his life by just his mother in a single parent household may have caused Jackson to feel different from the other kids that he grew up with, and to be stigmatized for his family make up(Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). He may have also resented Michael for trying to take his father’s place in his life and for trying to take some of his mother’s attention away from him.
I would also think of how I could support the children through the lesson, and which of those children may need extra support. 2. What might be your roll in organising, using and maintaining the learning resources, materials and equipment? When organising equipment for the lesson, I would prepare resources/materials ahead of the lesson. Ensuring that I know where resources/equipment is stored.
Running Head: OBSERVATION Child Observation Childhood Observations This observation describes two children in childhood over a period of two weeks. The children were observed in their home environment, work, and a restaurant setting. This paper records the observations of the children, observing to see if they are following the principles of development as discussed in, Human Development Across the Lifespan, by John Dacey, Lisa Fiore, and John Travers. The first child that was observed was a male age ten, about fifty- four inches in height, and seventy-two pounds. The male has no siblings.
Early childhood teachers need to formulate and develop their curriculum based on the developmental needs, interests, strengths, learning styles, cultural background, and previous learning experiences of their students, understanding that all children learn differently, but all children can learn and be successful. Child centered learning is a philosophy that is reflective of the social cultural theory of Lev Vygotsky. He believed that teachers should be facilitators and a partner in their students learning. Vygotsky believed that a child’s experiences from the past with people, places and things provided a framework for their knowledge, as noted by Jaramillo (1996). This concept focuses on children taking an active role in their learning through social interaction with others and objects.