Most children between this age group may have close friends and will still play with both genders. A child should have started school and will be able to enjoy their independence although still needing comfort and reassurance. By now a good sense of self-awareness (both positive and negative) will have been developed. Children around this age are able to form firm friendships which helps them to understand boundaries and why they are necessary. At school they may be responsible for being class helpers,
Children’s sense whom they are shaped by their characteristics, their behaviour, and their understanding of themselves, their families and others. Belonging is about having a secure relationship with or a connection with a particular group of people. When children feel a sense of belonging and sense of pride in their families, their peeps, and their communities, they can be emotionally strong, self-assured and able to deal with their challenges and difficulties. This creates an important foundation for their learning Giving children messages of respect, love, approval and encouragement enables them to develop a positive sense of who they are and a feeling that they have an important contribution to make wherever they are. Positive messages about their families, background, cultures and languages help children to develop pride in who they are.
It also helps them grow into adults who have positive feelings about themselves and others. When children and young people have positive relationships with practitioners, it gives them emotional security, as they know that there always is someone who cares for them and to whom they can turn to. Thanks to this, children and young people develop trust in other people and their confidence grows, which enables them to better participate in activities as well as better handle difficult situations. When practitioners accept children and young people for who they are, it is easier for children and young people to accept themselves and develop good self-esteem. Also when children and young people feel confident and comfortable in their relationships with others and have a sense of wellbeing, it is less likely for them to exhibit unacceptable behaviour.
Play times are a common place where staff encourage young people to understand and respect other peoples feelings and points of view because it is often a place where incidents can occur between children, sometimes misunderstandings and fall-outs can take place where staff have to step in, listen to both sides, and encourage the students to come to a fair agreement, and to also help them understand wrong and right, and the effects they have on
Develop positive relationship. Be aware of child development. Having a sense of child development helps you understand what general skills children have or are working on. Knowing these milestones and skills allows you to provide children what they need to transition. Know each child well.
TDA 3.1 Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults 1.1 Communication means passing information from one person to another. It can be interchange of opinions, thoughts or information via speech, signs or writing between two or more people. When communication is clear, precise and easily understood, it is known as effective communication and significant in personal as well as professional settings. Effective communication is important for children as it helps them to achieve. When there is effective communication between children and adults, children will have proper understanding of what they are expected to do and how they are expected to behave.
This can affect planning as practitioners may have to think and plan activities for children where there is a possibility that positive and negative reinforcements can be put into action in the setting, for example; praising the child when they have achieved and giving children time outs think about what they have done ‘Skinner divided the consequences of actions into three groups; Positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers and punishments’ (Tassoni, P, et al, 2007: 84). Albert Bandura’s social learning theory states that he believed children’s; parents, family, friends and teachers should be powerful role models and figures for children to imitate, for example; behaving in a way that promotes acceptable behaviour in the setting. This can affect the planning and provision of learning opportunities for children in a setting as practitioners will have to plan activities and experiences for children that will enable them and will encourage them to socialise and communicate with other children and staff ‘In social learning theory Albert Bandura (1977) states behaviour is learned from the environment through the process of observational
Homework 4th October Zoë A child centered approach promotes the right of the child to choose, make connections and communicate. It allows freedom for children to think, experience, explore, question and search for answers. It presents a creative celebration of children's work also It means that the needs of the child are the main focus when planning all aspects of the setting, for example Environment, Meals, Activities and experiences, routines, taking children’s views into account. Settings can achieve a child cantered approach by taking on a new role in seeing how play develops, rather than directing play; children therefore become more creative and enhance communication skills with one another, another way is by dong learning activities and seeing how they learn etc so they can achieve their full potential and develop in to confident, and resilient individuals, food and drink, hygiene needs, exercise.
Name_Jenna Swarmer___ Period 3 Chapter 1 Notes Section 1.1 1. What are the benefits of studying children? - learn why children feel, think, and act the way they do. - discover caregivers’ importance - enjoy children more - learn about career opportunities 2. Define typical behavior.
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