...1)The teacher's personal opinion cannot be accepted as scientific evidence because she is making a generalisation from just her own class. She has not used the scientific method to come to her conclusions about breakfast and reading abilities and she should have operationalised her criteria when working out if her pupils had proper nutrition in the morning rather than using loose vocabulary such as 'decent breakfast'. 2) The researcher could of put all names of the 400 students on pieces of paper into one container. He could of then selected 100 names from the container collecting his random sample of his access group. To reduce the risk of bias the researcher should use the same size paper for each name and have the paper folded in a way so he cannot possibly know which names he is picking. 3) Limitations of using random sampling in this study could come from the fact that the sample may not be truly representative. All names selected could come from only a few of the schools or he may not get an equal representation from each gender. The sample he does get at the end may be bias as not all parents will agree to their child being used in a study so a limitation would be that there are difficulties in getting a sample through this method. 4) It is important to operationalise the independent and the dependent variables in this study because the psychologist needs to have clear criteria for what exactly a 'decent breakfast'...
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...[Kelly Koss was a junior Art major and Psychology minor at Kalamazoo College when she wrote this Observation Report (Spring 2003). Observation Report Kelly Koss Note to the reader: The names within this paper have been modified to protect the identities of the children involved in my observations. Observation #1: “John” and aggression Date and time: Wednesday April 16, 2003; 11:25-12:50 Setting: Playground for 1st/2nd grade recess 11:25-11:50, 3rd/4th grade 11:55-12:20, Kindergarten recess 12:25-12:50 Activities observed: Children climbing across the climbing rings, watching children pretend play at the tire mountain and under the large wooden play structure with the blue plastic slide. My interaction with the children: I spent a lot of time answering questions about my name and where I am from for the children. Example A: There was one child named “John” on the first recess who was racing across the rings with another child, lost the race and fell to the ground. He then started to cry and called himself a loser. I pulled him aside to try to talk to him to find out what was wrong. He kept telling me that he was a loser because he didn’t win the race and he never wins, and that “all my friends think I am a loser because I cry all the time. They make fun of me because I cry. They beat me up. I am a loser.” I tried to reassure him and tell him I did not think he was a loser. I explained how I thought one of the reasons he lost the race was because he had been climbing across...
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...Assignment #3:Motor/Perceptual/ Language Childs Name: Dylan Date of Observation: 10/08 &10/12 Childs age: 4 years and 3 months Place: SWC child development center Time: 11- 12pm/ 10-11:20am Dylan is at the arts table drawing with a marker on a piece of paper * Holds a crayon or marker using a tripod grasp (Allen & Marotz; Motor Development) Dylan cuts a piece of tape with scissors using his right hand, and then places the tape on his paper. * Hand Dominance (Gallo; Motor Development) * Handles scissors (Gallo; Motor Development) Dylan puts his shoes and sweater on then runs outside to the playground * Autonomy (Gallo; Motor Development) * Autonomous in dressing, feeding, toileting (Gallo; Motor Development) Dylan’s classmates are running after him around the playground. * Runs with agility (Gallo; Motor Development) * Runs, starts, stops, and moves around obstacles with ease (Allen& Marotz; Motor Development) Dylan throws a ball towards the basketball hoop in front of him * Throws a ball overhand; distance and aiming improving (Allen & Marotz; Motor Development) * Stage 3: 5-6 step forward with right foot when ball is thrown (Gallo; Motor Development) Dylan asks “ how do I write Dylan?” the teacher brings an alphabet book and shows him the letter D. Dylan looks at the picture then begins writing it on his paper. * Reproduces some shapes and letters (Allen & Marotz; Motor Development)...
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...Hodges 1 [Amber Hodges graduated from Kalamazoo College in June 2003. She was a senior Sociology/Anthropology major and Psychology minor when she wrote this Observation Report in Spring of 2003]. Observation Report Amber Hodges Introduction Siefert et. al describe children’s play as intrinsically motivated, process oriented, creative and nonliteral, governed by implicit rules, spontaneous and self-initiated, and free from major emotional distress(1997 p. 221-222). For example, the rules of a made-up game that children play cannot be discerned from a rulebook that stands independently of the activity; rather, one can discern rules by either observing or being actively involved in the play process. For children, play is the arena where they ultimately control what is going on, through communication and negotiation with each other, and as such, it is an arena where they are able to gain mastery over problems in their life, learn adult skills and roles, and further develop cognitive abilities (Siefert 1997). But, often times, children do not have complete hold over their environments. They can’t shape what and how they play through their own design. Wardle introduces the concept of an environmental press, “the forces at work in a setting which shape the behavior of people in that setting” (1999 p. 245). One principle of the environmental press is that of progressive conformity, where people’s behavior tends to become congruent with the press of the environment. Accordingly, the...
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...description of the community from documents researched. What is the cultural and linguistic representation of the community? If this information is not found on the Internet, from your observations, what culture/language do you think is represented? Ozone queens is a working class residential community with a lot of commercial real estate that will appeal well to the public. Asian and Hispanic are the cultural and linguistic representation of the community. 2. What are the distinguishing physical features of the school? Surrounding area? What year was the school built? Include a picture of the front of the school in this area of your paper. The school has an attached playground floor, a one way school zone designated street and a local city playground. -> Front of school 3. Does the school have a playground? What are its distinguishing features (if so, include a photo of it in this section of your survey)? Yes the school has a playground both in front of the school and behind the school. The playground floor in the back of the school has the planets on the ground, a couple of areas to play hopscotch, and various other games. A community garden also exists in the back. There are boxed off areas where the remains of old plants put there by students can be seen. The Ampere Playground in front of the school is gated and kept clean by park staff....
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...Proposal Andrea Smith ECE 312 Instructor Lewis April 16, 2012 Proposal The first years of a child’s life are very precious and very important. We here at Star Child Learning Development Center understand just how important these years are. Star Child Learning Development Center will be located at 3262 Glendale Road Scottdale Georgia 30079. Star Child Learning Development Center will be a center based child care center that will operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The early years are when the foundation for your child’s life is being implemented. That is why here at Star Child Learning Development we provide programs for ages six weeks to twelve years old. Our early care program provides services for children between the ages of six weeks through twenty four months of age. This program is designed to make sure that each child’s physical, social, emotional and developmental needs are met on a daily basis. Our daily schedule will be one that can easily be adjusted to meet the individual feeding and sleeping schedules of our children. The schedule will also have times when our toddlers are introduced to the different skills and concepts that will help them as we prepare them to move on to the next program and step in their lives. Our preschool education program will serve children between the ages of two and five years of age. Each of these groups will be grouped according to age. There may be some mixed age groups depending on when their birthdays are. Star...
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...Finola O’Driscoll 160148/TEA/CF Teaching Assistant Certificate Assignment One “Supporting the Teacher” Main Street Ballineen Co. Cork Page 1 Describe the key aspects of the role of a teaching assistant. The role of a teaching assistant is to contribute in different areas of the school environment and the people in the school. Supporting the teacher is the main aspect which involves accompanying the teacher in the working environment and under the direction of the teacher to work with the students by doing activities with them and observing them. Supporting the pupil is another key aspect of the role of a teaching assistant. Supervising the students in a classroom and engaging in different activities while observing them and keeping a record to report back to the head teacher, or in some cases, their parents. Supporting the school may include attending school meetings and trainings directed by the principal or teacher to help the teaching assistant become fully aware of the certain rules and responsibilities of the school. Supporting the curriculum by supporting the students in any given curricular activity, recording and observing them. Give examples of some tasks that can be carried out by a teaching assistant to support the teacher. In order to support the teacher in the classroom, a teaching assistant can help out with many tasks to help organise the learning environment. Prepare and maintain the learning...
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...Naturalistic observation paper Child psychology On January 27, 2009 at twelve noon, I went to the Children’s Brooklyn museum with the purpose of completing a Naturalistic observation of a toddler aged child. When I arrived, there were a couple of children in the free play area playing with the make believe toys. Five minutes into my observation I found my subject. I observed a young Caucasian boy who for purposes of this paper I will name Christian. Christian who fits in the 2-3 age group was accompanied by his nanny. What made me so interested with particular little boy, and not the group of children who were already there, was that his demeanor caught my attention. Like the other kids, I expected him to start interacting with the other children when he came in, but he passed them like they were not even there. In terms of physical appearance Christian was wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, black jacket and blue cap. He was kind of short and average weight his hair was curly in a mini afro. I noticed he was very independent he took off his coat and hat by himself without any assistance from his nanny. He made himself comfortable by sitting down as the nanny picked up a book to read to him. Christian has wonderful fine motor skills, which involve physical movements with his hands and fingers. I watched him turn pages in the Winnie the Pooh book with no hesitation or problem. After she read the Winnie the Pooh book to Christian they colored together. Christian...
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...Introduction and Background Information This observation Paper details information shared by parent of PG (Hispanic, Female, 8-Year-Old) on Prenatal Development, and Early Childhood development. Prenatal development, developmental milestones and information pertinent to PG were shared by Mother in an interview following an hour and half observation of PG’s interactions with peers and family members on the playground, Prenatal development, labor and delivery PG's Mother was 36 years old when pregnant with PG. Mother stated when ultrasound was completed she was informed by radiologist that PG may have down syndrome. Family declined an amniocentesis and prepared for an infant with special needs. Mother reports due to this revelation...
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...our vestibular and proprioception senses. Vestibular is our sense of balance and movement and how our bodies handle it. There are various ways an individual can suffer from a deprivation of the vestibular sense, for instance, they may be hypersensitive and avoid playground equipment such as swings, roller coasters and even spinning...
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...“Gender Differences in preschool aggression during free play and structured interactions”. The aim of this study was to, after looking at the results of survey based studies into the prevalence and types of childhood aggression, to verify the findings via direct observation of the children in their “natural” setting as to remove the potential for any gender bias, i.e. that boys are more physically aggressive than girls and that girls show more relational aggression than boys. Their method included using archival evidence to attain a foundation on which to conduct their research followed by the direct observation of forty eight pre-school children with a mean age 64 months in the playground and classroom. The study was conduct mid-way through the year to ensure all the children were well acquainted. The researchers who were left to observe the children were not informed of the hypothesis in order to increase the internal validity of the experiment and were given specific coding to also enhance the experiments internal validity. The results were expressed in two ways, one as the frequency of which each type of aggression (physical, verbal & relational) was displayed by a child...
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...Description of context: The observation takes place in Shiny Path on Harlem. My teacher assistant and my class of 18 students are in the classroom. The observation took place in lunchtime. Observation: It was Lunch time (11:30 am) , students were at the cafeteria with my assistant teacher. I decided to take Maria to the classroom so I can teach her about emotions and read a book about it, since she is having hard time regulating her emotions. I asked Maria to come upstairs since she throw her food out and didn’t want to eat it. I asked Maria,” why you throw your food out?” Maria replied,” no me gusta.” I told Maria,” next time you need to eat a little bit so you can at least have some energy. “Maria just looked at me and nod her head up and down. Maria and I walked out of the cafeteria and headed...
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...Shubert books. The center next to the cozy or safe center is the reading center. There are lots of colorful posters on the wall at child level. There are two shelves of books. The books seem to be in great condition and there are a variety of books to choose from. This center did have carpet on the floor. The carpet had floral designs. There is a blue leather child size couch that can fit two. There is also a miniature couch with no back that sort of looks like a small stool. Coming out of the reading Erica Alvarenga Edu 145 Child development II February 19, March 12, April 2 Center is two white trashcans. In front of the trashcans are two child size bathrooms. In the middle of the bathrooms is on child sized sink above the sink is the paper towel machine. Passing the bathrooms is the diaper changing table. Above the diaper changing table are little...
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...Learning is a process of gaining new experiences or transforming the existing information. Learning is easy to carry if it is obtained from the parents because that is the repeated observational learning. Children appreciate their parents without judging them because they are the role models. Children have an ability to learn more by observing others doing any kind of work. Children have brain like a plain paper. They learn good or bad from what they watch around them. First, they watch their family members, how they communicate with each other, their lifestyle, and way of living. They get same impression because they spend most of their time with them. They copy the information which is the most characteristic of humans and is called imitation. Psychologically the children are into the phase of sensitive learning, they rapidly copy the behaviour of their parents which is imprinted on their minds. Sometimes the learning is the result of an event which is recorded in their memory and by observation and repetition becomes a part of their habits. Secondly, they adopt many habits from the society. If they communicate with well-educated or well-mannered people then they can learn good moral values and if their neighbourhood and society members have some bad qualities it influences them negatively. Similarly, children have parents who teach them and prepare them for life. Parents have the first and strongest influence on their children. Children observe their way of doing the things...
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...Cheryl Vance 10/6/2013 CJ2799 Explaining Criminal Behavior For this paper I am going to discuss social structure theory and social process theory. If biology could explain criminality, then why is the majority of crime and violence in poor, underdeveloped neighborhoods? To ignore environmental and social aspects contributing to crime would be a mistake. People who live in the United States live in what is called a “stratified society” (Siegel) Stratification refers to, “a hierarchical arrangement…compromising three main layers: upper class, middle class, and lower class”). Social disorganization theory: focuses on the urban conditions that effect crime rates. A disorganized area is one in which institutions of social control, such as family, commercial establishments and schools have broken down and can no longer perform their expected or stated functions. Indicators of social disorganization include high unemployment and school dropout rates, deteriorated housing, low income levels and large numbers of single parent households. Residents in these areas experience conflict and despair, and as a result, antisocial behavior flourishes. Strain theory: holds that crime is a function of the conflict between people’s goals and the means they can use to obtain them. Strain theorists argue that although social and economic goals are common to people in all economic strata, the ability to obtain these goals is class-dependent…members of the lower class are unable to achieve [symbols...
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