Always be sensitive and understanding, you may have to adjust or adapt what you want to say by ensuring you say it the right way to convey your message, your feelings or ensure opinions are expressed clearly with no misunderstanding without giving offence to the individual. As a practitioner you should provide encouragement to children and parents, reassurance and any necessary information. Some individuals are quite confident to voice their feelings or opinions openly, others may be less able to express their views. If the latter you may need to observe body language, facial expressions and what they don’t say to show you how they are feeling so that you can use this to communicate effectively with them. Another reason it may be hard to verbally communicate is if English is not their first language and you will have to use body language and maybe actions, especially to help the children understand what you are saying, and also speak very clearly in a friendly tone.
* To assist and ensure there is a good happy atmosphere at all sessions. * To assist and take time to listen and respond to the children and encourage them to develop. * To assist, encourage and maintain equality of opportunity for all the children within the group. 1.2 - The early years sector is very well regulated and all staff, and the setting that they work in. We must follow the various standards that in many cases have been set down by the law, such as the Childcare Act 2006 and the Health and Safety Work Act 1974.
1.1 Describe how to establish respectful, professional relationships with children and young people. 2.2 Describe the importance of adult relationships as a role models for children and young people. Personal behaviour, good communication skills and approachability are essential in the foundations of building relationships with children and young people. Good communication and interaction according to their age and level is the most important thing with children and young people. Listening is a way to establish a respectful and professional relationship with a child.
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.
A relationship in which a child or young person completely trusts and respects you and feels comfortable in your company, allows you to be able to offer the child or young person a supportive, caring environment in which they can learn and develop. Listening to them is one of the most important ways in which to establish a respectful and professional relationship with a child or young person. By you listening, without interrupting them, shows them that you value what they are saying and that their opinions are important. You should show them that you are interested in what they have to say and should also take an interest in the child or young person themselves. Take an interest in their likes and dislikes, and ask them about their hobbies etc, to show you are interested.
Be approachable and remain calm at all times. Remember children’s names and pronounce them correctly, use their preferred way to be addressed. Listening is one of the most important ways to establish an important relationship with a child or young
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools Level 3 Name: Claire Duggan Date:2.2.15 Assignment : Unit 301 Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults (also includes unit 333 1.5 and 305 3.5) (NB: Please also refer to guidance in standards for words in bold) Explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults (1.1) We communicate verbally, by our use of tone and expression and our use of body language. To communicate effectively we must use all of these along with being respectful and considerate, listening and being clear when speaking. Effective communication helps to establish trust. By being friendly, approachable, open and honest, children, young people and adults will be more willing to listen and feel more confident and at ease to communicate with you and develop a positive relationship. It is important that adults demonstrate effective communication with each other, by doing this you are being a good role model and showing children how to communicate and how to develop positive relationships.
The child will respond well to this and they are likely to repeat the action to gain the praise from a staff member. Another policy at this setting is to model good behavior by treating children and adults around us with respect. This means that staff will be treating children with respect by talking to them nicely, not shouting at children, not humiliating children, etc. as well at treating staff members with the same level of respect, not shouting across the classroom, talking nicely to one another, etc. the result of this will be that other children will see this and will copy the staff members being respectful and, in turn, will respect their classmates, teachers and anyone outside of nursery.
|Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults | |1.1 |Explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults | | | | | |Communication is the process of sharing information, thoughts and feelings between people and to understand what feelings and information is being | | |conveyed by others. We communicate in two main forms; verbal which includes speech, words and written language; and non verbal which includes facial | | |expressions, body language, gestures and signs. Thus I feel that when speaking with children, young people, and adults it is important to speak | | |clearly and use positive body language like smiling and being friendly. | | | | | |Communicating effectively is the cornerstone of every education setting and without effective communication; ideas, directions and thoughts can be | | |lost or misunderstood, which can impact greatly on the students. For example if I have missed the start of a lesson because I have been dealing with | | |another student in a previous lesson or on a break duty, I will miss the introduction of the lesson including objectives and explanations of the tasks| | |that have been set.
Unit 304 Outcome 2 Promote positive behaviour 2.1 Explain the benefits of actively promoting positive aspects of behaviour Social, emotional and behavioural skills underlie almost every aspect of school, home and community life, including effective learning and getting on with other people. They are fundamental to school improvement so where children have good skills in these areas, and are educated within an environment supportive to emotional health and well-being, they will be motivated and equipped to: * be effective and successful learners * make and sustain friendships * deal with and resolve conflict effectively and fairly * solve problems with others or by themselves * manage strong feelings such as frustration, anger and anxiety * be able to promote calm and optimistic states that further