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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 can help you understand where that child is at and how you can help them. Documenting this is a great way to keep track of where they are and to see if what you are doing has helped them over time. This can show you how to engage and help them grow developmentally in the classroom by finding work that meets them where they are at developmentally.
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Observing and documenting a child’s behavior and development assists childcare providers in understanding the child’s development, which allows providers to asses an individual child’s needs in the program. This benefits both provider and child and allows the program to adjust lessons or activities as needed.
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Early learning providers, when properly observing and documenting a child’s development, can be helped by having documentation to refer to when planning lessons for a whole class. By knowing where each child is at, providers can plan activities that will guide the development of as many of the children in the classroom as possible.
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How does observing and documenting a child’s development help early learning providers?
Observing and documenting a child’s development could help a early learning provider keep track of things kids are having issues with, whether it be a one time or continuous issue, if the issue continues than the provider can help the child learn or talk to a parent and spot a potential bigger issue.
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Observing and documenting a child’s development can allow early learning providers to better assist each child while being sure to provide all resources possible to that child. As we all know, children have different needs, wants and learning styles. Some children need more tools or assistance and some just want to be presented the activity in a different way. Documenting development also helps early learning providers to communicate needs, successes and milestones with families.
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Observing and documenting is very important because it helps staff and parents know how their child is doing.
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When you observe in the classroom you are able to get into a very deep insight on what the child needs. The child for example is working impractical life and is having a hard time holding a spoon or doing a tong work and is having a hard time holding the tongs. That shows us that we need to have them work more with things that have to do with three finger grip. Without that observation though we would never know what they would need and it would be hard for them to do simple tasks such as spooning or picking up little things off of the floor.
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When you are documenting it also gives you insight on where you need to go next with that child. For example I have 15 children in my classroom. That is a lot of children to keep track of and you may not always remember where to go next with that child you could guess but without document you will never really know that is the part we get to of the observation.
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Observation is needed to understand children’s individual development and providing them with appropriate activities, interactions and environment. I need to observe the child on what they know and build on that data that was collected from the observation. In order for the child to be successful then I need meet the child at their level first before I build more.
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Observing and documenting a child’s development helps providers create appropriate activities to encourage growth.
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When we are relating observation and knowledge of individual development, we are really focusing on what is in the best interest of the child. Recognizing behavioral tendencies, reaching certain milestones and overall engagement. Understanding a child’s development really opens a teacher’s eyes on what we can focus on for their mental, emotional and social journey through life and with their education.
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How does observing and documenting a child’s development help early learning providers?
Observing and documenting a child’s development helps early learning providers by allowing them to keep track of a child’s progress. For example, if a teacher notices that one student is developmentally behind their peers, they can note this and keep track of the development. Throughout the year the teacher can check in to see if the child has improved the developmental delay or not. Based off of what the teacher observes, he/she can determine what the next steps are for the child.
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Observing and documenting a child’s development can help early learning providers to have better knowledge of the child in their care and also to make sure they have the ability to direct the child in the correct manner to healthy development.
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To learn about children and their development we can use an anecdotal record, which is a
brief summary describing an incident of a child’s behavior that shows developmental growth. I
think pictures and videos are a great way to show how a child is developing.
