Since, I have been thinking of different ways of creating environments, seeing children’s strengths, abilities, and communicating with families during this class, I am going to briefly discuss two things I plan to implant in my professional experience. First, I would have a discussion with my supervisor and staff to come together to help enforce more universal design learning our facility. UDL is As I read the statement in “Early Childhood Inclusion: A Summary”, I came up with the conclusion of what the creation of a sense of belonging and membership, positive relationships and reaching full potential means when working with all young children and families. First, I would make sure that my classroom environment accommodates all my students and the parents feel comfortable with their child in the environment also. Throughout my teaching career and working with all children and families I have discovered that the best
“Kiddy Thinks” In “Kiddy Thinks”, Alison Gopnik discusses the stages of thinking abilities of babies and young children. Using examples from her personal experiences as a parent and her experiments as a developmental psychologist, she defines these stages and explains the learning processes that take place during them. Through process analysis, Gopnik develops her thesis that babies and young children use the same learning strategies as scientists. Gopnik explains the stages of cognitive development for children from birth to the age of 4 years old. At birth, babies already know they are similar to other people.
The strands are: • To learn about themselves - Self Concept Development • To learn about their feelings - Emotional Development • To learn about other people - Social Development • To learn to communicate - Language Development • To learn to move and do - Physical Development • To learn to think - Cognitive Development The quality of early experiences is shaped by the individuals with whom infants and toddlers spend their time and by the environments where they spend their time. As early childhood professionals, we know what children need in order to be successful in both school and in life. This document designed for program trainers, directors and parent educators to use as they work with caregivers and parents to insure quality care for infants and toddlers. Infants and toddlers are cared for in a variety of settings. These settings include the child’s own home, child care centers and family child care.
This assists and is used as a guideline for teachers to help your child in their development areas. It informs us about the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes the learner has obtained (Davin, R.2013:32). By assessing the learner we are able to identify their learning style and allow us to prepare lessons in such a way that is best suitable to your child’s needs. Frequent assessments made by our teachers also assist parents to develop their children at home. Our teachers are able to provide exercises or activities to parents to practice at home with the learner thus reiterating what is being taught in the classroom.
Therefore, the purpose of assessment in support of planned curriculum is to help build on children’s strengths and weaknesses and aid in continued growth and learning. Furthermore, assessments illustrate that children have actually gained knowledge and skill from planned learning experiences. Even more, they exhibit the children’s ideas and attitudes towards their experiences. The teacher sent home picture cards for the children to continue working on rhyming at home and suggested several rhyming read aloud books for parents to read to their child at
Teaching Assistant Level 3 Assignment 1 – L/601/1693 Understanding How Children and Young People Develop Student Name: - Samantha Danks Student Number: - SADAN2355 Question 1.1: Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth-19years: There are 5 areas of human development and they are Social, Physical, Intellectual, Communication and Emotional (SPICE). Social and Emotional is the development of a child’s identity and self-image. They will learn how to relate to themselves and to others around them. They will learn how to develop friendships and relationships, and how to ‘fit in’ to society. Physical is the development of the body as it increases in skill and strength.
(3.1) Explain the benefits of key worker/person system in early years settings The attachment bonds of babies and children All babies and children require having warm, interacting and can responding to the needs when crying and needing to be safe. This links to the main area of each child’s future relationships. Mostly, all babies and children experience bond with their senses and this includes love that impacts a child and help change their learning as this happens, children develop to be more curious and create friendships with other children and can be good at school. At hospitals, after the babies are born then the midwife brings the baby to the mother which involves skin to skin bonding and the nurses encourage feeding from the mother to the baby. At settings, the key person will have warm and affectionate bond with babies and children but they do not replace the parents and if the key person has a long term illness so two people will care for a child in the setting.
It’s basically a teaching/learning plan that is specifically tailored to a child's needs. It's normally planned by a group of teachers & specialists who are involved with the child. 5. What is the school/teachers role in generating and implementing an IEP? h. To create an effective IEP, parents, teachers, other school staff--and often the student--must come together to look closely at the student's unique needs.
Creative Curriculum Foundation Diane Trister Dodge a preschool educator in 1979 introduce to the world The Creative Curriculum, she believed that the approach provided teachers with the support of making their goals co-inside in the classroom, by having appropriate developmentally practice and learning that is active for children that’s geared towards social competence. The curriculum holds a balance, teacher-directed and child-initiated learning which response to the learning styles of children and emphasizing on their strengths and interests. Dodge believed that the roles of families are valuable to the learning process. A bridge between home and school are valuable because it builds the foundation for how the child will learn and acquire information. Teachers who truly value the family’s role in a child’s education, and recognize how much they can accomplish by working with families, can build a true partnership (Dodge, Colker, and Heroman, 2002, pg.
ESI 2000 There is specific subject knowledge and principles that teachers are required to use in good practice when planning for and teaching science, this is based on the constructivist principles from the work of Vygotsky and Piaget and the subject knowledge of a teacher identified by Schulman (1987). This assignment will analyse how the constructivist principles relate to teaching and learning in science and consequently how a teacher’s subject knowledge of these principles can affect children’s learning in science. The assignment will also take a brief insight into the lesson plan created (see Appendix 1) to support children’s learning in science looking at how this relates to the constructivist principles including the context and approaches required to effectively teach science. Many authors such as McGuigan (1987), Fisher (2005), Cakir (2008) and Watt (1998) describe the importance of the constructivist principles and how they relate to the learning and teaching processes in science. The constructivist theory of learning has two strands child’s prior knowledge identified by Piaget and social engagement identified by Vygotsky.