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Trainer Monitored Discussion – Observing and documenting a child’s development
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Trainer Monitored Discussion – Observing and documenting a child’s development
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Observing and documenting a child’s development helps early learning providers know what they need to work on more with the child and where they are at in their milestones, it may also tell them that the child has reached one milestone and is ready to move on to the next important thing for their development.
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It is important to understand how children develop, then through observation, a caregiver can see where that a child is in the continuum of that development stage.
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It can help you understand each child better which can in turn help you in making informed and personalized decisions for the classroom.
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Great insight, Lucy! Observing and documenting children’s development allows for personalized and informed classroom decisions. Well said!
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Observing and documenting a child’s development are essential practices for early learning providers, offering valuable insights into children’s growth, informing instruction and curriculum planning, facilitating communication with families, supporting professional development, and promoting evidence-based practice in early childhood education.
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Vladyslav, your insights are spot on! Observing and documenting help inform instruction, engage families, and support professional development. Great points!
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Observing and documenting a child’s development are essential practices for early learning providers, offering valuable insights into children’s growth, informing instruction and curriculum planning, facilitating communication with families, supporting professional development, and promoting evidence-based practice in early childhood education.
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Tetiana’s response effectively highlights the significance of observing and documenting a child’s development for early learning providers. Well-articulated points!
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Having a documentation or records of observation to a child’s development and milestones is essential in helping him in various areas like social, emotional and academic.
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Medi, great insight! Documenting observations helps track and support a child’s holistic development effectively. Well said!
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Observing and documenting a child’s development helps care providers to learn how to better adapt in order to properly help the child grow at a developmentally appropriate rate. It can also help to individualize lesson plans to better suit the needs of the children in their care.
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By observing and documenting where each child is developmentally, teachers can work on and adjust their curriculum to better fit the students’ current level of need, by exercising the skills they have recently learned and challenging them to grow to the next level.
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Observing and documenting can lead to feedback to parents and better help the child learn. Find new ways to learn. Observing is a good way to learn how children interact with each other. Documenting is a good way to reflect as well.
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We use observation all the time in our personal and professional lives. We are constantly
aware of what is happening around us and, through assessments that we make of situations, we adjust and refine our behavior accordingly. For example, in settings,
practitioners will notice when children have fallen over, they will notice that children
have run out of glue, they will observe and monitor what needs doing as children
tidy up. These informal observations are vital to the smooth running of the setting.
Practitioners will also observe and notice the professional practice of colleagues to
enhance their own practice. This might be informally; you notice that a colleague is
working with children in an effective way and you observe her work as a model of
how to do things well. It can also be done formally as professional development. For
example, when areas for professional development are identified through appraisal
practitioners can use focused observation of colleagues’ practice, alongside analytical
discussion, to learn and develop their own knowledge and skill. The very best starting point for teaching children is to start with what they know
and can do. Practitioners can establish this through attentive observation of children during their play. Careful observation and assessment will demonstrate to us
what knowledge, skills and aptitudes children currently have and, therefore, what is
needed to further support their learning and development.
An important part of understanding children’s learning is to observe what they are
interested in. Where do they play? What do they play? Who do they play with? Which
activities or experiences or themes engage them? Interest is an excellent motivator for
children. When children are engaged in an activity or experience that is absorbing they
are more likely to learn. We can use the information we gather through observation to
inform what we do and what we provide. This ensures that we reflect children’s interests
in what we provide. Another important question to ask is: how do children learn best?
This will be different for different children. Children will have a preferred way to explore
their world; it might be alongside other children or alongside an adult; it may be in group
work or on their own; it might be by returning over and over again to an activity; it might
be singularly focused on an activity; it might be working with the same schema through
a variety of different activities and experiences. Through observation practitioners need
to become aware of individual children’s preferences and, as with all other aspects of
observation, ensure that provision caters for the children’s ways of learning.
Observation and assessment of children and their learning also inform overall
provision. The best way to support children’s learning and development is to ensure
that provision for both planned and child-initiated learning is closely matched to the
needs of the children; both to meet their current needs and interests and provision
that enables them to engage in activities and experiences that extend their learning. Observation should inform this process through careful analysis of the children’s
needs and interests reflected in the provision.
Observation and assessment should also inform pedagogical approaches within settings
and schools. When practitioners have a good understanding of what children know
and can do and of their needs practitioners can adapt their interactive strategies to
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Christine provides a comprehensive understanding of how observation and documentation support early learning providers in understanding and meeting children’s needs.
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Observing and documenting is the best ways of ensuring and tracking child’s developmental needs and achievements and areas in which children may need more help or areas were children and reaching right on time and are excellent at all children are at a different ratio and that Is okay that why each child has their own portfolio and time to reach goals with our help and care .
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Azucena makes a great point about observing and documenting to individualize support for children’s development.
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Observing and documenting a child’s development is extremely important, because each child is extremely different in how they develop, and what strengths and weaknesses they have, so documenting that can help you plan activities or scenarios that might help individuals, as well as a group progress, and reach their milestones.
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Ethan, well said! Observing and documenting helps tailor learning experiences for individual and group progress. Great insight!
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Documentation and observation are so important and coexist while assessing how to explore curriculum with each child. Each child may have their own learning style and it’s important for us to lead with that
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Analicia, you highlighted the importance of individualized learning and the role of documentation and observation in early childhood education. Great insight!
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Each child develops at their own pace so a successful program adapts to the needs and variations of the children. To better do this, teachers should observe their classroom but also each child and their developmental milestones. This helps the teacher better plan for future activities to further and assist development.
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Anj’s understanding highlights the importance of individualized learning and the role of observation in planning for children’s development. Great insight!
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Observing and documenting a child’s development assures that the child is developing as expected, and/or identify possible developmental delays and proceed with early intervention. It also helps us adjust our curriculum to best support and challenge the children in our care.
