You must be professional and approachable to children giving them lots of praise and eye contact. If you do this the child feels comfortable around you. If the child feels happy and comfortable and able to trust you then you are making the right impression on them. Allowing the child to come to you when they feel uncomfortable or they need assistance with something. Children tend to role play themselves through play playing schools and playing the role of teachers, playing mums and dads, etc so this proves that the way in which adults behave has a strong impact on how children look up to adults as role models.
It is about enjoying and learning from the process rather than an end result. It is useful for many reasons, Developing confidence, developing relationships, team work and concentration. 1.2 Explain current theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning in early childhood. There are many theoretical approaches that aim to explain creativity and creative learning. Most theories of child development view young children as highly creative with a natural tendency to fantasize experiment and explore their physical and conceptual environment.
Rice also conducted an experiment and found that parental mediation enhanced children’s learning from watching Sesame Street. A study that supports the role of parental mediation is Fogel’s study. The study shows that parental mediation is important for children to learn pro-social behaviour because after discussing the moral message with an adult, children showed much more pro-social behaviour in relation to tolerance and friendship than the control group. Another study that supports parental mediation is Rosenkoetter’s study in 1999. The study showed that parental mediation is important for children to learn pro-social behaviour because they help the children to understand the moral message behind the pro-social programmes which allow and made the children more pro-social in their actions and behaviours.
Lauren Fowler Pin: 30199220 OP2.17 1.1. Describe why creative development is important to children’s learning. Creative development is important to children’s development and learning because it helps your child to use their mind and imagination to express their own ideas. Even playing with their friends is also helping your child to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It also helps your child to make connections in their thinking and the way in which problem are solved.
To develop a positive relationship with a child can often take some time. This can take a lot of patience and trust. Trust is a huge part in developing a relationship if someone trusts you they are more likely to come to you if they have a problem that they need help with. It is important to adapt communication to include all children. In my class the children are always greeted with a smile, good morning and how are you today aswel as sign language and PECS.
Their conversations/interactions with children Adult’s interaction with children plays a very important role in children’s learning and development Listen and give them the time they need to answer. Gives children feedback on what they are doing, whenever possible encourage children to solve problems for themselves. Celebrates their progress and achievements, and helps them to learn from mistakes, use encouragement as well as praise. Adults should not make statements that evaluate or judge .instead make objective, specific comments that encourage children to expand their descriptive language and think about what they are doing. Make it a playful atmosphere, in which both adult and child are enjoying the time spent together; Adults.
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.
The family is what provides nurturance, affection, and different opportunities and it is the primary socialize in the being it has the most significant impact on a child’s development(Berns, Roberta Eighth Edition, pg. 19). The school is where children formally learn and the teachers are role models to the students because they teach various skills and behaviors and provide motivation for children to learn(Berns, Roberta Eighth Edition, pg20). The peer group is the setting in which children are generally unsupervised by adults and children get a sense of who they are and what they can do by comparison with others (Berns, Roberta Eighth Edition, pg. 20).
His theory is that children use cognitive behavior when understanding and giving communication. They will use trial and error to get the right words out until they succeed. He believes that children observe adults and other children for the correct way to communicate and repeat the actions they have seen until they get it right. We support this at nursery by speaking clearly and simply and nodding or praising a child for getting a word, sentence or request correct. This is to encourage them to use the correct terms when they wish to communicate.
For the children that did like to play with the mixture I would encourage them to feel it and tell me what it felt like, whether it was smooth, cold, lumpy and sticky. Froebel is a theorist that says it is important to develop the whole child through the senses and first-hand experiences. This activity works alongside this as the children are feeling ti for themselves and are able to explain to a practitioner how they felt about the experiences that they had just had, they could also talk about the fact that they liked it or