LEAD PACTICE IN PROMOTING THE WELL BEING AND RESILIENCE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. 1.1 A child`s well-being is of great importance and Understanding what affects children’s subjective well-being is vital if they are to be encouraged and supported to be active participants in society, their community and family. The evidence shows that a low level of subjective well-being is associated with a wide range of social and personal problems. Children need to be given the conditions to learn and develop. This includes cognitive and emotional development, fostered through access to play in the early years and high quality education in school, and physical development, for example through a nutritious diet.
The Life Story has a huge impact on encouraging children to speak up, as they often find it difficult to let out their feelings in difficult situations. Tony Ryan and Rodger Walker stated ‘Life Story Work gives children a structured and understandable way of talking about themselves’. It enables them to use different ways to express themselves and feel confident. The most vulnerable children are those who are left in Foster Care
You must think about this when planning activities, for example when they involve physical play, or if more consideration must be given to the needs of a child who has just become mobile than to an older child, when planning room layouts. • Some children have specific needs such as sensory impairments: for example think about the challenges to a child with limited hearing understanding explanations about safety. • The different needs of families and carers must be considered. • Always be clear about why you are using the environment in question, the activities a child encounters and what sorts of services are offered. • The duty of care of a setting to children, parents and carers is a legal obligation.
If it’s listening or talking, some children and young people find it very difficult to communicate. It’s very important to a child’s development that they are encouraged to find ways of communicating with other children or adults. Obviously the sooner a child is found to have speech or language problem the better, as they can then get the help and support they need to develop their communication skills. Every child a talker is a suitable approach which promotes the importance of a stimulating and interesting environment in which children and young people are encouraged to develop their communication and language skills. It also supports the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.
Skilled observation is important to correctly determine what is behind a child’s classroom behavior. Misinterpretation leads to difficulties for both teacher and child stemming from the teacher thinking that one cause has led to the child’s behavior, while the truth may be quite different (MacDonald, 2006). Children communicate through their bodies. Their physical actions reveal as much about them as the things they say. A major accomplishment during the early years is the development of social skills.
As your children mature, it is important to impart to them the need to think responsibly about how their actions impact other people. Young adults are not yet fully mature, and this is reflected in their road
Authentic observations and assessments are a valuable and irreplaceable tool in many areas of child development. The assist in the early detection of children who may be in need of specialized services, and they are also great tools in helping the teacher plan instruction for individuals as well as for group instruction. Assessments are also a great and reliable tool that is utilized in helping professionals identify where their program and staff are lacking and where improvements and adjustments are needed to better meet the goals that are set for children's developmental needs. As a child educator it is important to know how to have meaningful conversations with children. Early childhood educators need to learn to watch and listen to a child long enough to determine a what a child's goals should be and as an educator understand the child's individual needs to develop strategies for attaining those goals.
Understanding the reason for a certain behavior coming from a child that is emotionally disturbed is very important for their teachers, parents and peers. They need to be supportive and have more patience to have successful relationships with that child. Observing a child in different environments and personalities can help predict what will set them off. Once that is determined, different ways of controlling or influencing the behavior can be accomplished. You can help the child avoid those types of situations.
This is the key that will help the schools accomplish the goal for which they were created, to instill the necessary information that the children will need to properly function in our society. In order to accomplish this goal the needs of the children need to be properly addressed in order for them to be able to receive the information, understand it, and retain it. Because these needs differ between the sexes at the different developmental stages it is best for the sexes to be taught separately as opposed together. This is such a hot topic that there is even an article referring to it as “The Gender Wars in Education”[i] The developmental challenges can be divided into two general categories, pre-adolescent and adolescent. I will first address the pre-adolescent children's needs.
The importance of early identification of barriers to learning and the provision of early inclusive intervention and appropriate learning support. 1. Introduction Parenting or educating a child with learning barriers may be a daunting task. If the child has not been identified as experiencing a barrier to learning, teachers and parents might mistakenly assume that the child is lazy, demotivated, refuses to listen ,is unwilling to concentrate and uninterested in learning. It may still present a frustrating challenge to parents and teachers who are aware that the child has a barrier to learning, but who do not know how to deal with the situation.