Term Papers: Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of your work with children [NAEYC 4a]
Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs. [NAEYC Standard 1a]
Using developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments [NAEYC Standard 1c]
Knowing about and using observation, documentation, and other appropriate assessment tools and approaches. [NAEYC Standard 3c]
Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of your work with children [NAEYC 4a]
Knowing about and upholding ethical standards and other professional guidelines [NAEYC Standard 6b]
Mastering and applying foundational concepts from general education [NAEYC Supportive Skill 2]
Written and verbal skills [NAEYC Supportive Skill 3]
Making connections between prior knowledgeable/experience and new learning [NAEYC Supportive Skill 4]
Course Competency: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12
For this assignment, you will observe a child between the ages of birth and 8 years for 3-4 clock hours in a natural setting. Observations will be for a minimum of 4-clock hours. The ideal situation is to do this assignment in no more than 2 clock hour increments for a minimum of 2 separate visits over a 3 week period of time; however, this is not always possible. It is more important to complete the minimum of 4-clock hours for the observation.
During your observation of the child you will:
Focus on 3 of the child’s developmental areas – physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development and record objective anecdotal notes based on facts of what you see, not your opinion or interpretation.
Your objective anecdotal observation notes will include:
