Observation can be used for three major purposes: (1) to understand children’s behavior, (2) to evaluate children’s development, and (3) to evaluate learning progress. Understanding Children’s behavior, young children have not mastered language and the ability to read and write, they are unable to express themselves as clearly as older children and adults. They cannot demonstrate how much they know or understand through formal or informal assessments involving tasks and standardized tests. Children cannot explain themselves adequately through language, evidence as to why they behave as they do is obtained through on-the-spot recording of their actions. Skilled observation is important to correctly determine what is behind a child’s classroom behavior.
5. Moral development – this is a sub-set of social and emotional development with strong links to cognitive development. The development of morality is about the decisions that children and young people take, the principles that they adopt and their behaviuor towards others. Each child develops at their own rate, there is a
– TASK 2 Task 1 1. State ways an adult can be responsive when listening to a young child. The adult can be responsive when listening by being interesting in a child. There are many ways to show attention using body language and sensitive verbal comments, ex. give a child smile, look at them but do not stare, keep eye contact, face to face integration, go to the same level as the child, replay immediately if the child asks the question.
As they play the games on the LeapPad2, this strengthens the child’s hand to eye coordination as well as the child’s small muscles on their fingers, hands and wrists. 1. Which of Jean Piaget’s stages is this toy most appropriate for? Sensorimotor Preoperational X Concrete Operations X Formal Operations Explain why. The LeapPad2 is for children from ages 3 to 9.
This skills are use do organise, sequence, sort, relate, differentiate and many other processes. With these skills children learn to plan and understand the world as well as other people in their life. Deficiency of Theory of Mind would cause for a child to have a small depth of other people’s mind. This is also referred to, as mind-blindness. This proposes that children have a very difficult time to see things from other person’s point of view.
A recognised structured system of gestures, signs and symbols used to communicate. Communication – the interchange of thoughts, opinions or information by speech, writing or signs. It allows us to express ourselves, understand others and to be understood. In order for us to communicate effectively we need to remember to use various skills including listening and taking turns, a mutual language and the ability to express one self. Speech, language and communication needs – Encompasses a wide range of difficulties related to all aspects of communication in children and young people.
When testing young children the examiner needs to take certain aspects into account. The young child's immature developmental status influences the responses to testing more than older children or adults. Other considerations, which are
1.2 Explain Expectations about own work role as expressed in relevant standards: The provision of young children’s Learning and Development. The provision of young children’s Welfare. To provide age approriate activites for the children. Support all areas of development. Record Childrens Developmental Progression.
Mental representation enables children to rely on memory, perception and repetition in order to solve problems. Through mental representation children associate symbols and objects with other forms of information that is related. Toddlers are interested in playing “make believe”, often imitating others or imagining they are somewhere else using associations with objects or symbols. Piaget’s believes that children develop in a stage like process, others believe developmental flows. There are some infants that are capable in surpassing stages well before Piaget’s
With this in mind we can look at a child and young persons development in more of a sequence across ages, rather than different stages at fixed ages. We can use milestones of expected development for when children may be expected to reach a particular stage. We can identify these sequences of development in children and young persons from birth - nineteen by using five different aspects know as SPICE. SOCIAL Development This area of development is where children and young persons learn acceptable norms for behaviour. They learn right from wrong and build relationships with other people.