Textbook Picture: The Preschool Child The ages between 3 and 6 are often called the preschool years. During this period, a child develops in these main areas: physical development, cognitive development, language development, social development, and motor development. A child grows taller and loses the chubbiness of the toddler period in these years. Gross and fine motor skills become more developed and refined as each year passes as manifested by participation in running, skipping, and drawing
Words: 1198 - Pages: 5
Observatin Observation A good way to assess a situation between people is to observe their behaviors and actions in conversation. How did they interact with each other? Where their non-verbal messages intertwined with the verbal ones? Where they sitting closely or at a distance? The paper will cover one event where these types of observations were made during the duration of a one-hour dinner at a local restaurant. Background The local Applebee’s restaurant is one of a mixed
Words: 1044 - Pages: 5
Our first day at the Child Study Center, we as a group were in the dragonflies classroom, and we were there to observe the children and how they interact with each other while planning for our activity that we would do with them the next time. During our first visit, Mrs. Jackie explained to us that the children loved creating stories and saving people. Also, Mrs. Jackie showed us some of the books that the students created that involving saving people. In our first visit, each of the children were
Words: 552 - Pages: 3
a bit of giggling and squealing during this time. Physically Bailey came across as an active baby. Her legs where constantly kicking and moving, and she was reaching and grasping for her toys and other items around her. Several times during my observation, mom had to readjust Bailey back to a secure sitting position due to her eager movements. While it seemed Bailey was more interested in human interaction, when she did focus on her toys there was quite the effort to assess them and then to get
Words: 712 - Pages: 3
How to Write a Child's Observation Report By Lynn Rademacher, eHow Contributor * * * Share * * Print this article Observing children at play helps educators to structure the classroom. Child observation reports are created for a variety of reasons. College students who are childhood development majors will complete several observations as part of their coursework. Therapists use observation reports to determine the appropriate type of treatment for children with
Words: 956 - Pages: 4
OBSERVATION REPORT (Observe – to pay attention to, to perceive or notice, to watch, to recognize or note occurrences, to draw inferences, to remark or comment) The Observation Report is to be the result of an in-person observation made for the purpose of partially fulfilling the requirements of this course, and must include a complete and comprehensive report on any 2.5 hours of observation from the list of choices below, exclusive of breaks and recesses. The observation report shall include
Words: 1386 - Pages: 6
Observation Study Situation I went to a Starbucks store near DU twice to conduct the observations. First, I went there on March 26 and stayed there from 8:00am to 9:30am. Then I went there on the next day and stayed there from 10:00am to 11:00am. I mainly observed the physical layout of this store, the in-store environment, the price of the coffee, the reactions of the customers and the performance of the staff. As for the performance of the staff, I observed their genders, ages, facial expressions
Words: 1411 - Pages: 6
Ethnographic Observation TSL 4520 Grading Rubric Background (Milde, R., 2001) Common wisdom tells us that there are, in general, two kinds of writing: creative and expository. Creative writing tells about feelings, opinions, points of view, things that originate inside the writer. Expository essays tell about facts, things outside of the writer. Essays on literature examine a literary text, a thing outside the writer. Lab reports describe experiments with chemicals and other stuff that really
Words: 2312 - Pages: 10
The approach I took here was to observe children as they progressed through a particular school system. Looking for some correlation or trends and some educational building as it relates to transitioning from grade to grade. In this observation I observed a teacher I already had contact with. She taught my daughter in first grade, and then later on she left teaching for administration position and has returned this year as a kindergarten teacher. I think this speaks about her passion for being in
Words: 1266 - Pages: 6
Tung Thanh Bui Professor Carrie Pickerel-Brooks Education 201 Classroom Observation #2 29 April. 2016 I observed an ESL classroom Penn Valley. I sat in on a Novice level class taught by Mrs. Veronica. The students were all around 20-30 years old. The general demographic of the students was Hispanic and African. They were all enthusiastic and happy. I enjoyed sitting in on this class and getting to know the students and the teacher. After observing Mrs. Veronica’s class I saw that even
Words: 629 - Pages: 3
