Child Observation I recently observed a "child" involved in two different types of activities‚ at different times of the day. The first activity was "Teacher-Initiated"‚ and the second "Child-Initiated". The purpose of this observation is to compare and contrast the child’s development and behavior between the two different contexts. Through observation I found that although both activities were rich in challenge and learning opportunity‚ the child’s behavior is different‚ but demonstrates
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INTRODUCTION Observation is like acting or directing or writing or any other complex skill-set. It takes practice. We all observe things all the time. We notice or perceive things that might be in our path—metaphorically and literally. We see things we want (or don’t want) and take action to secure them (or push them away). When we talk about observation as an assessment tool‚ we sometimes refer to it as “formal observation” or “field observation” or “qualitative observation.” In those instances
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Cognitive Development: Vygotsky RECORD OF OBSERVATION The subject is an 8 year old boy I will refer to as “Q” In his home. “Q” is playing a board game with his father “P”. The game consists of dice‚ player pieces that need to be moved and cards that are read telling the next move. Other people present are the boys’s 8 year old twin sister and the children’s mother as the observer. Q and P set out the board game. It looks very complicated‚ there are many pieces. This particular game
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teachers to hand and teachers might not understand how they should relate to students with the behavior. Some teachers even ignore the student if they cannot or do not know how to deal with this issue. When a student with this behavior is in a classroom setting the teacher may feel uncomfortable around the student that they are actually afraid of talking to the student all together. Untrained teachers that do not know much about the behavior could use punishment if they view the reaction as immature
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This editorial called “Gender in the Classroom”‚ written by Debrorah Tannen‚ was mainly about her study of men and women in the classroom. Throughout this editorial she discussed the various behaviors among people that result from gender-related styles of talking. After observing how people conduct themselves in different environments‚ she then explains how she changes her teaching methods to accommodate these behaviors. She states that a colleague of hers found that “more women began to speak
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The Observation of Ants Introduction Myrmecology has been around since the late 18th and early 19th century. Myrmecology is derived from the Greek word Murmek‚ which means ant. There are three main names that are most noteworthy: Linne who produced "Systemae Naturae" which he describes eighteen species of ants. Fabricius created five more genera and further described other species. Latreille was the most significant‚ he collected and studied the ants of Europe and described many species overlooked
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Art Observation For my art observation I went to preschool. I observed a Jr. Kindergarten class that consisted of 12 students between the ages of 4 and 5. It was a Monday‚ Tuesday‚ Wednesday class. The day that I observed the students and teachers sometimes (as well as the whole school) were a little distracted‚ because it was picture day. So after the students took their pictures they did their art activity so that they wouldn’t have to stop and they wouldn’t get dirty for the picture. Overall
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The classroom will need a chalkboard or whiteboard a projector and a screen for presentation slides and videos. Display cupboards should be placed throughout the school for displaying student’s artworks. An area needs to be designated for the art library and a bulletin board for displaying artwork. To help manage the classroom chairs and table need to be easily accessible. Linderman (1997) suggest using attention
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Observation Analysis Molley Green MTE 506 September 29th‚ 2012 Shawn Wells Observation Analysis Observing a classroom has a certain metaphysical edge. Merely by your presence and watching‚ you cannot help but feel that you are somehow changing or influencing the class and the students that make it up. My observations took place in two settings‚ the first and my primary observation source
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confrontation they abhor. Michael Ymer extended a range of ideas that assisted teachers in investigating the stepping stones towards teaching and learning addition‚ subtraction multiplication and division. He provided us with Classroom management advice‚ suggested classroom resources‚ task centres‚ grouping students and investigative learning for our class. A Task Centre is a collection of individually housed mathematics problems (or tasks) that require the use of concrete materials (housed with
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