Social Care Training: Social Development Observation
Child Care Training – Social Development Observation Sample
Date of observation: 26 March 2011
Time observation started and finished: 14:20 to 14:50
Number of children present: Three children present
Number of adults present: 2 Adults present. (1) Mother, (1) Student(observer)
Description of setting: TC home is set in a rural area, it is a large detached house with large landscaped gardens surrounding the house, there are swings, slides and a playhouse in the garden. There are neighbouring houses with children living in them also.
Immediate context: This observation took place at dinner time in the kitchen of TC home. There is a large table and TC is sitting at the end of it with her dinner in a plastic plate and a plastic spoon to eat …show more content…
14:40
TC refuses to take a spoonful of dinner from the Mother
Child B says; ‘Can I have it?’
Mother asks TC; ‘Will I give it to Child B?’
TC says ‘Yes’ and shakes head up and down.
14:45
TC rubs some of the dinner onto the table top and rubs it around
Mother says;’Come on baby eat your dinner’. Child B says;’I ate mine, can I have a treat now.’
TC says;’Treat, Treat’
14:50
TC takes some more dinner.
Mother says;’You can have a treat when you eat two more spoonfuls of dinner’.
TC says;’Treat, Treat’
Evaluation:
The aim of this observation was to observe TC during dinner time and observe how she interacts with her family. TC is 18 months and has limited speech 2 word sentences (this is normal for this age group). ‘Around 18 months to 2 years is when toddlers begin interacting with peers, and even then, parallel play still predominates, whereby the toddler will play happily alongside peers but not with them ‘(Flood,2010). I did not observe TC at parallel play in this observation.. I observed her socialising with her family at dinner …show more content…
‘Behaviourists believe that positive reinforcements are much stronger and more effective learning tools than negative.(Flood, 2010)’.
I observed that TC has good social skills for an 18month old, she smiles at people in order for them to smile and understand what she is doing is funny. She is calm, relaxed and behaving in way one would expect a healthy 18 month old to behave. TC seems to be securely attached to her mother, therefore paving the way to developing very good social skills as she grows up.
Personal learning gained:
I can identify the norms to expect the varying ages in terms of social development.
Social development milestones are a good way of identifying a child who is having problems mixing with their peers and therefore being able to work to resolve problems within a childcare workers capacity.
Social development is one of the most important learning experience a child will have as it will determine the success they will have in their future in many realms of their life.
References:
*Murray, Lynne and Andrews, Liz 2000 The social baby. Richmond; The Children’s
Date of observation: 26 March 2011
Time observation started and finished: 14:20 to 14:50
Number of children present: Three children present
Number of adults present: 2 Adults present. (1) Mother, (1) Student(observer)
Description of setting: TC home is set in a rural area, it is a large detached house with large landscaped gardens surrounding the house, there are swings, slides and a playhouse in the garden. There are neighbouring houses with children living in them also.
Immediate context: This observation took place at dinner time in the kitchen of TC home. There is a large table and TC is sitting at the end of it with her dinner in a plastic plate and a plastic spoon to eat …show more content…
14:40
TC refuses to take a spoonful of dinner from the Mother
Child B says; ‘Can I have it?’
Mother asks TC; ‘Will I give it to Child B?’
TC says ‘Yes’ and shakes head up and down.
14:45
TC rubs some of the dinner onto the table top and rubs it around
Mother says;’Come on baby eat your dinner’. Child B says;’I ate mine, can I have a treat now.’
TC says;’Treat, Treat’
14:50
TC takes some more dinner.
Mother says;’You can have a treat when you eat two more spoonfuls of dinner’.
TC says;’Treat, Treat’
Evaluation:
The aim of this observation was to observe TC during dinner time and observe how she interacts with her family. TC is 18 months and has limited speech 2 word sentences (this is normal for this age group). ‘Around 18 months to 2 years is when toddlers begin interacting with peers, and even then, parallel play still predominates, whereby the toddler will play happily alongside peers but not with them ‘(Flood,2010). I did not observe TC at parallel play in this observation.. I observed her socialising with her family at dinner …show more content…
‘Behaviourists believe that positive reinforcements are much stronger and more effective learning tools than negative.(Flood, 2010)’.
I observed that TC has good social skills for an 18month old, she smiles at people in order for them to smile and understand what she is doing is funny. She is calm, relaxed and behaving in way one would expect a healthy 18 month old to behave. TC seems to be securely attached to her mother, therefore paving the way to developing very good social skills as she grows up.
Personal learning gained:
I can identify the norms to expect the varying ages in terms of social development.
Social development milestones are a good way of identifying a child who is having problems mixing with their peers and therefore being able to work to resolve problems within a childcare workers capacity.
Social development is one of the most important learning experience a child will have as it will determine the success they will have in their future in many realms of their life.
References:
*Murray, Lynne and Andrews, Liz 2000 The social baby. Richmond; The Children’s