A Wide Age Range Of Kids

Lucille Ruby [ source 3] states young children need guidance, support, and stability. Ruby says that Donna Snyder prof develope that younger students can bond with their teacher by staying in one class all day. Given this point students who do not bond with their teacher will not succeed as well or feel safe in their environment.

Child groups should be encouraged to be inclusive with children who may struggle to form and maintain normal relationships. The Teaching Assistant can play an important role in encouraging this behaviour.

Making relationships: children play co-operatively, taking turns with others. They take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity. They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.”

As a Learning Assistant, working in Year 3, I worked closely with a seven year old girl who, for the purpose of this case study, I will call Jane. Jane was a confident and happy girl who, despite not being particularly academically gifted, always participated with class discussions and activities enthusiastically.

I believe that each child is unique individual who needs a secure, caring, and stimulating atmosphere in which to grow and mature emotionally, intellectually, physically, and socially. It is my desire as an educator to help students meet their fullest potential in these areas by providing an environment that is safe, supports risk-taking, and invite a sharing of ideas. There are three elements that I believe are conducive to establishing such an environment namely, the teacher acting guide, allowing the child’s natural curiosity to direct his/her learning, promoting respect for all the things and all the people.

The way in which we interact with each other demonstrates how much we value each other’s opinions and input. Through the art of positive communication children can be made to feel part of the school community. Our behaviour and communication needs to be adapted according to the age of the child or young person. This is because they require different levels attention and reassurance depending on their age and any added factors which may be affecting them at the time. For example when they transfer to secondary school young people can feel fragile and emotionally vulnerable – as a result they may require a gentler approach and may also need to have more physical contact .The older a child gets the more they may need help with issues such as puberty and hormonal matters.

Over the years the role that teachers play in the child’s life has massively changed. In the late 1800s and early 1900s many children did not go to school, what they learned came from home, so when they did come to school, it was a shock. Many of the parents would send the children to school, and forget about them. Especially in girls, education has been the hardest from them over the years.

The McMillan Sisters had a inimitable way of teaching their students and their methods have been carried out for many generations and are still practiced today. In Who Am I in the Lives of Children, table 3.2 describes the sister’s goals and influential practices. The ambitions for their program were simple; they wished to provide nurture to children, support health, nourishment and physical welfare, assist parents in improving their work with their children, and provide a model for teacher on how to work with young children. Through the Open- Air Nursery School they unquestionably accomplished their goals for they impacted Early Childhood Education with their sense training, outdoor activities (including the sandbox and gardening), focus on children’s health and activities with creative expression. A modern nursery school instructor, Hilary Cooper, connects one of the McMillan’s sisters teaching methods to a today’s teaching practices:

Positive relationships between practitioners and the children will improve the atmosphere within the classroom and help to provide a happy and friendly environment for learning and socialising. Once a strong relationship is established between the children they feel like they belong and will feel comfortable about coming to you regarding any problems or concerns they may have.

Childhood is the most sensitive period of human development. A well-structured academic enabling environment allows children to flourish, learning 15-20 new words every week all while adapting to and learning specific motor functions of all sorts. The correct environment carries an extremely important role and promotes learning under the proper circumstances, however a poor learning environment with constant conflict and poor role models can actually inhibit or slow the growth of a child. By no means does the perfect learning scenario exist, but psychologist can often identify a scenario where parents and/or guardians foster a variety of developmental issues from a psychological, physical, and mental perspective. The authoritative figure's unique and condescending style of teaching the girl in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, directly leads to harsh social and developmental consequences short term, with diminished long term social and developmental effects including troubled relationships, attachment issues, and a poor understanding of basic social scenarios.

Throughout this essay I will be discussing what I experienced with my time observing my aunt. I have been observing Julie Tolbert, my aunt, for a few weeks and have gained so much information that will help me tremendously. When the eighth grade students visited I was able to get a glimpse at what students in the upper levels of school were like and was able to make a definite decision on whether or not I would stay with early childhood or move to middle grades. After discussing what I learned from my different field experiences, I will discuss the different theories and models that I observed and compare and contrast what could have been differently. I will bring up the theories that I think were used that Julie did not even

Kelly took Will to a preschool that was hard to get into. She and other parents would sit in the classroom with their kids as a teacher taught their children. It was a little community where the parents could interact with others and same with their children. Kelly could notice a difference between Will and the other children at this preschool. One day she watched other children eat candy from a place they did not know.

1. Context/ Introduction: For my third observation, on Monday October 17th, I returned back to the Kean University Child Care Center. Just like my second observation I came for my observation for the hour of 10:30-11:30 am. This time in the classroom there was four teacher aides and the teacher Ms. Kierah. When I walked into the classroom I was surprised when one of the teacher aides told me that Ethan has a lot of energy in class that day. She explained that Ethan had a lot of energy that his listening skills were a little off as well. Once she was done explaining this I was anxious to see this for myself. I saw Ethan was playing at the middle table with one other boy Steve. Quietly, I sat at the table to the right of the middle table and began my notes.

The child I observed was a seven-year-old girl in Year 2 who sat on the second highest ability table in a mixed class. While not in school, she lived a substantial distance away meaning she travelled to and from school by car and was often the first child to arrive in the morning and the last to leave in the afternoon. I will focus on the social and emotional development of this child who, from now onwards, will be referred to as C.

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher 's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”