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RIGHT TIME, RIGHT STRATEGY Importance of observations in ECE settings

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RIGHT TIME, RIGHT STRATEGY

Importance of observations in ECE settings

Goals of the workshop

• Define Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)

• Identify essential components of DAP and give examples

from your classroom practices

• Recognize the important role of observation in working with

young children

• Illustrate ways to apply the essential components of DAP to

their classroom practices

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What is Developmentally

Appropriate Practice (DAP)?

A setting or a curriculum that meets the cognitive, emotional,

and physical needs of children based on child development

theories and observations of children's individual strengths and

weaknesses.

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Look, Listen, Note

Watch the full video here. Then answer the following question:

How do the teachers in the video make their classrooms developmentally or

individually appropriate i.e. a DAP classroom?

What does one see in a a

truly“DAP” classroom?

• Engaging materials

• Plan for transitions

• Student directed

• Materials are age-appropriate

• Scope for children’s initiative and choice

• Adapting curriculum and teaching strategies to suit the needsof the child

• Children are actively engaged

• Creative room arrangement

• Provision of daily schedule

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Observations are accurate

when we:

• Take note of specific details

• Know the person we are observing

• Make observations over time

• Apply our full attention and focus

• Give sufficient time to the observation

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Observing Young Children

Watch the full video here. Then answer the following questions:

How can you make observations part of your classroom routine?

How can observations help you ensure development of the whole child (Hint:

think about developmental milestones)?

DAP Classroom Plan - 1

Process Descriptions Your plan

Difficulty Define the difficulty that you’re having with a particular child. It may be in one

of the following domains or a combination:

Physical ‐ Development of fine (small) and gross (large) motor skills.

Cognitive ‐ The process of making sense of the world around them. The

development of special abilities including Music, Art, Writing, Reading, and

Singing are all ways for creative development to take place.

Social ‐ Refers mostly to the ability to form attachments, play with others,

co‐operation and sharing, and being able to create lasting relationships with

others.

Emotional ‐ Development of self‐awareness, self‐ confidence, and coping

with feelings as well as understanding them

Observation

How will you make a record of instances of the problem?

You could use:

‘anecdotal’ records: informal observations written based on what has

been seen

checklists: lists of milestones or behaviours made into a checklist

format

time samples: counting the instances of a behavior which occurs in a

given time sample

work samples: examples of a child’s ability or inability to perform

particular tasks.

Photographs: samples of a child engaged in a behavior or activity.

Interpretation

What can you surmise about a child’s strengths, needs and interests

identified from the observations noted.

DAP Classroom Plan – 2

Process Descriptions Your plan

Strategising

Determine a goal for the child as an “objective”.

Planning

Determine an activity(ies) or interaction(s) that will foster the

achievement of the objective.

Implementing

Making a note of what happens when the activity, multiple activities or

strategic interactions occur.

Evaluation

What are some specific questions that you’d like to answer. Examples:

Was the objective from the ‘strategizing’ step achieved? If not, why

not?

Did what occur form the basis for further planning? (If so, use this

as another observation).

Reflection How would you change or improve the process that you implemented?

Resource Bank – 1

1. Recognizing the Essentials of Developmentally Appropriate Practice by Marjore J.Kostelnik, Ph.D.

This article helps in understanding the concepts and misconceptions of developmentallyappropriate practices. Developmentally appropriate practices advocates that every child isan unique individual and each child care professional should gain adequate and appropriateknowledge about child development and respect each child’s ability to carry out their dailyactivities.

You can find the whole article here: http://www.campbellcdc.org/art2.html

2. Providing developmentally appropriate learning

This website helps to get an insight into the ways developing young child think about theworld and his environment. It is a reference resource to help discover, identify, develop achild’s strength and address weaknesses as well as self control their emotions, behaviorsand moods

To learn more visit:http://www.resourcesforearlylearning.org/educators/module/20/10/39/

Resource Bank - 2

3. Developmentally appropriate practices

http://www.naeyc.org/DAP

4.Forman, G., & Hall, E. (n.d.). Wondering with Children: The Importance of

Observation in Early Education. Early Childhood Research and Practice,7(2).

This article goes to state on how the process of observation, documentation etc. are tools

that help the child care giver or the teachers on the ways that children think. These process

only help the child care professional or teachers to act and react in conducive ways with

children wherein the children are comfortable, more responsive to the learning processes

developed for them. The article is an excellent source to teachers to better understand the

behavioral aspects of children thereby making the teaching and learning experience a lot

more effective. It also make a mention of using videos as a tool to look back upon

observations that have been recorded and use them to analyse actions of students.

Read the whole article here: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/forman.html

Resource Bank - 3

5. Observing with Purpose: Strategies for Observing Young Children’s Learning and

Development

There are many ways to assess a child’s early learning development. This video shows how

purposeful observation is a tool for learning about young children’s learning, development,

and interests. This video explores key strategies for observing young children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzSn1VHvCQ

6. Observing children in action

http://www.teachertube.com/video/observing-children-in-action-part-three-406214

Summary

Summary

• Children are observed for developmental progress through

observation.

• Observation takes place primarily in their daily activities, their

use of language and social interaction with others.

• Observations can be both planned and spontaneous

Really, Its All About Me!!!

Just the right CONTENT, to

Just the right PERSON, at

Just the right, TIME, on

Just the right DEVICE, in

Just the right CONTEXT, and

Just the right WAY

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