By ways of tracking and mapping out a child’s development and using milestones to give an idea of a typical child’s development for a particular age, it is easier to identify if a child is struggling in a certain area of development. This is beneficial to the child if they need additional support. i.e. if a child of 4 has not reached a milestone or shows signs of struggling to reach the milestone in speech, language and communication, therefore they will need additional support from care providers and may need speech/language therapy.
It is important that children are made aware of what is expected of them within school with regards to their behaviour and interacting with others. Adults must also be conscious of their reactions to certain situations in front of children as they are seen as role models, for example using bad language or aggressive behaviour will stick in a child’s mind and they may replicate the behaviour. As a Teaching Assistant, having a close relationship with any pupil in my setting means I can learn to recognise their needs. I work in the nursery every morning and a lot of the children are only 2
Communicating with Children, Young People and Adults There are varying levels of communication required when working with children, young people and adults alike. Whilst working with children, young people and adults it is of the utmost importance that your trust is earned so that a trustful and honest relationship may develop. To ensure that the relationships that develop are honest and trustful, your behaviour has to be fair and in a professional manner at all times. At different age groups children require different levels of attention dependent upon both their age and stage of developmental ability. When a child first starts school they may require more contact and reassurance than when they reach their 2nd year of school (key stage 1 year 1).
3: Understand the potiential effects of transistions on children and young people. 3.1: Identify transistions expeirenced by most children and young people I feel that a main transisition expieirenced by most children is Starting school as a child grows up, their intellectial ability as well as their communication will also develop. They will be able to become more socialable and learn through the diffrent techques used in the school such as play time where thair able to learn practically and then through the currriculam. I feel that that starting school is a big transistion due to being able to expierence a certain amount of independance. Another big transistion that most children or young person will expieirence is a birth of a sibling the reason why i believe this is a transistion is because they are adapting to a new situation which could either cause happiness or a eliment of jelousy.
March 9, 2010 The purposes of observations have become the most dominant method for learning children’s development as they are young. It requires a much more focus on the child’s behaviors, observation allows the teacher to get to know the child as a unique individual, rather than as a member of a group. Young children need to have models from a teacher in order to understand appropriate behaviors when being observed. Learning the importance of observations important, as is developing the skills of how to observe. 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.
This is also a good time to go through the contract and make any mutually agreed adaptations. Families will be offered a settling in period of 4-6 weeks, depending on the child’s weekly hours, where contracts can be terminated by either party without notice. At the end of this period, I aim to meet with parents to discuss the settling in period and any concerns or matters that need to be discussed at this point. When assessing a child and developing their next steps, support from parents is crucial. To make accurate assessments, knowledge of what a child can do when they are at home is important, as they may demonstrate more at home than when at a different setting.
Their concern for others coexists with aggressive and self-centered impulses, which occasionally interfere with effective interactions. Middle Childhood (6-10 Years) Middle childhood is a time of sustained attention to real-world tasks. Children start to form serious commitments to peers. Friendships are important, and children learn a lot from interactions with friends and resolutions of disputes. Children start comparing their performance to others, start to internalize many prohibitions they’ve heard repeatedly, and they start to fain a sense of what is expected of them, and most want to live up to those expectations.
This is usually seen between friends of the same age, by way of learning things from the way they interact with one another helping them to “acquire skills that can only be learned among equals, such as those involving co-operation and competition” (Shaffer, 2003, p113). There are various ways in which children’s development is affected by relationships that they form and it affects them in different ways. With reciprocal relationships children learn valuable skills for the future in terms of competiveness, how to resolve conflicts and also how to co-operate with others. Similarly, relationships between siblings can also contribute to social understanding as they will interact with one another on the same level even if there is a difference in age. The older sibling maybe seen as the wiser one however they have common ground.
Allowing children to be able to think independently and create their own behavior can be an effective way to allow for more autonomy, improving their motivation in many areas and get the confidence to achieve better grades in school. Pink explains that “A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude” (88). Many parents will choose to raise and will motivate their children by how they were brought up as a child. While this may seem like a great way to raise a child, it could control motivation and behavior with the experience of pressure and demand. Parents might want to consider teaching their children about autonomous motivation which promotes greater conceptual understanding, better grades, enhanced persistence at school and in sporting activities, higher productivity, less burnout, and greater levels of psychological well-being.
I agree with what Vygotsky states and claims, as I feel as when a child is shown to do something then they will grasp the concept of how to do it themselves in time, but still may need to be shown again on how to do something depending on the child’s development. As well as educators helping with development and learning, peers also play a role in how children develop and learn as Bennett and