Following the observation guidelines, I chose to use the Pseudo name Jay. This way I am respecting the privacy of the child and the preschool.The preschool I choose to observe at Montrose Discover Preschool. Jay is a 5 years old boy that recently celebrated his birthday. Jay is average height boy, with blonde curly hair, with blue eye color. What gravitated me to this particular child how social he is with his peers and how funny he can be. He is very helpful with his peers. Jay also likes to encourage himself to read more books.
On 10/16/15 at Texarkana Special Education Center I attempted to interview Nolan W. while he was sitting on the rug waiting to go to the table to prepare for snack time. Nolan is two years old and when asked what happened he would say "boo boo" and point to his chin. I asked where and he said "fall down boo boo" while pointing to his chin. I asked Nolan if I could take a picture of him. I took a picture of Nolan's face and then one of his chin.
I observed my son, Orion, during story time with his father, Louis. Orion just turned four in October. He is currently attending early intervention for speech and social delays at the Catherine Dodge Brownell School in the Bronx, and had began his attendance there at the end of the last school year. Every night Orion is read to before bed. This night was his father’s turn to read.
The child I am observing is a first grade boy at Prescott Elementary. I am watching over him at the Prescott after school program. Where kids go to work on homework, work on skills, and play with friends while they wait for their parents to arrive. The boy had light blonde, straight hair, and blue eyes. He is also quite small for his age, almost looks like a kindergartener.
During the two 30 min periods that I observed at Swett-Winters, I saw the children engaging in different social studies practices. The type of activity’s that they did for economics are selling play-do ice-cream cones, they “produced” more ice cream. One child pretended to be a cashier with this adorable little plastic cash register. It had fake money in it. After someone handed him money he would push buttons and pretend to fill a paper bag with their groceries.
Fuller and Strath (2001) conducted a quantitative research study that examined local populations of early education organizations based on the 1990 household census data to report features of the early childhood workforce nationwide. Multiple economic and regulatory forces shaped the population of early education organizations that operated within states and local communities. The median center-based teacher was 34 years of age, reported having completed some college, and was married. The median family childcare home provider had a high school diploma. Fifteen percent of all preschool teachers in urban areas were African American and 8% were Latina.
She has shown positive results in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. Her motor and fine motor skills are developing properly, her cognitive mind is at the preoperational stage common for children her age, and she has shown to be comfortable with separation and emotions. On a personal note, I really enjoyed this time to play and learn about child K. From my experience with child K, I learned that how accurate growth development concepts can be. It’s like we have figured out the algorithm of how humans develop.
When my second child came, I relaxed (was very tired) and started to realize that, with some guidance, they figured a lot of this stuff out themselves. By my fourth, I have been able to enjoy the process of watching them learn to be amazing, thoughtful, social human beings. I think this will be relevant to assisting other children in the classroom become viable and positive social students, as I have already learned that their environment, with a little adult guidance, will help guide them. I hope to be a valuable facilitator in helping children have a positive social experience by pairing a socially inept child with a socially adept child, identifying and acknowledging the strengths of all children, understanding social weaknesses and creating an environment in which the student is accepted. These can greatly enhance all children’s social abilities.
According to developmental psychology a person at any age is at a certain stage of cognitive, moral, psychosocial, and physical development. This development is measured by different types of thinking, mental capacity for tasks, physical strength, and reasoning for following rules. Development is easily seen in children. Naturalistic observation is the one of the easiest method to see these developments in children. This is the observation technique I used, while watching a five year old male at Kindercare Daycare at 3:30 on a Friday.
The school that I attendent to was the child development center. I was looking around the environment where child development is place at really quiet neighborhood. The neighborhood has a lot of tree and not really intersection road. I came in 10/19/17 it was in the morning around 10 am but they had a earthquake drill.
As observed with Taylor, he could easily tell that someone new had come in his house and he did not respond to me the way he responded to his mother. Cognitive development during childhood plays a vital role in their future abilities and
She is very interested in learning every day and she always ask questions when she has any doubts. She is a pleasure to have around and I haven’t had any behavioral trouble with her as of yet. Without a doubt those are vital strengths that will be fundamental to achieving her educational
Thomas (2009) provides a perfect example of diversity in the early childhood environment. Thomas (2009) introduced a large felt world map to the preschool classroom. The activity included felt animals and people from around the world. The children were discovering the type of relationships between animals and humans. Thomas (2009) intended for the children to explore the differences between land and sea animals.
An unannounced follow up inspection was conducted on 11/17/2015. I arrived at the operation which is located at 1408 N. Edwards Ave, Mt Pleasant about 3:33 pm. I was greeted by Ashley Earl the director I then explained the purpose of my inspection. I prepared for the inspection by reviewing the frequency of inspections made, observing the operations, compliance history, the operations fee history, background check list and controlling person list, etc.
The classroom that I will be observing is a Preschool classroom at KinderCare Learning Center in Bartlett, Illinois. The teacher I will be observing over the next period of time is Laura Sturgulewski. She has worked at KinderCare for 8 years, mostly in the 2 year-old room until fall of 2013, when she took the lead teaching position of the Preschool classroom. Her classroom mainly has 3 year-olds, but on occasion has a mix of 4 year-olds and transitioning 2 year-olds. The number of students in her class depends on the day, because they are a child care center some students have a part time schedule, unlike an elementary school where children attend every day.
The child that I observe this week and has been observing is my little brother Isaiah, who is one year old and he’s about to be two pretty soon. The developmental task that I observe my little brother doing is learning