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I have over 20 years with working children from at-risk adolescents, group homes, teacher assisted, and driving a school bus. The 20 plus years working with children, I have learned to be multitask as assisting children with homework, participate with daily activities such as art & craft to playing in/outside sports, and preparing lunch/dinner. I have work at Devereux of Florida, The Grove, and now present employed at Seminole County Public Schools. The skills I have to successfully fill this position is providing Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security for every children. I can also help and supervise students with math or any assignments to make sure he or she complete their task. I have skills in customer service, knowledge in Microsoft

believed children built upon their knowledge through assimilation. Assimilation could be achieved through knowledge of a previous object or event to a new object or event, with or without accommodation.”

3. Describe Piaget’s processes of assimilation and accommodation. Use an example to illustrate the processes. Assimilation is when children deal with new experiences based on

Whilst on my level 3 course I completed work experience at Rainbow Nursery and St Anns Primary School (Nursery/Year One).

Late Modern English, a global language spoken around the world by over 2 billion people can trace its roots to the Germanic language introduced by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the 5th century. Before the arrival of the Anglo Saxons, many parts of Britain were bilingual Celtic-Latin speakers, although very few traces of Celtic remain in the English language – other than in place names, for example Avon and Ouse – which derive from the Celtic word for ‘water’, and words found more in local dialects than mainstream English – for example ‘broc’ for badger.

| Piaget's first stage of cognitive development in which the infant uses its senses and motor abilities to interact with objects in the environment

As part of a restructure in a one form entry primary school, I was appointed the position of being part of the School Improvement Team and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO). The SENCO role was previously overseen by the Headteacher whom I work closely with in relation to both of the positions I hold. As well as having these responsibilities within the school, I am a full-time class teacher in Year 2.

I have just under four years’ experience, both voluntary and working, within a nursery and a primary school environment, working with children from 0-8 years. I volunteered on a weekly basis for three years, highlighting my motivation and passion to work with young children. Currently I am employed as a

Jean Piaget researched how the environment and personal experience plays a role in cognitive development for children (Case-Smith & O’Brien, 2010). Piaget established four concepts: adaptation, schema, assimilation, and accommodation (Case-Smith & O’Brien, 2010). Adaptation is described as the process of adjusting to one’s surroundings (Case-Smith & O’Brien, 2010). For example, 5-year-old Betty enters a birthday party full of laughing children. Betty may start smiling and clapping along with her peers.

Jean Piaget believes that children go through a series of four stages of cognitive development and that each stage shows how kids understand the world. He believes that they are like “little scientists” that explore to make seem of the world around them. Piaget states that children see the world with schemes which is when it has a structure that organizes experience, in other words put into categories such as birds, dogs and fish are all in the category of “pets” or apple, meat and eggs are in the category of “food.” As they children get older they start to add schemes based on abstract categories. Schemes are constantly changing modifying to children’s experience. Assimilation is when a new experience occurs in already existing scheme, example used in Essential of Human Development is a baby being familiar with grasping scheme.

Piaget is one of the first people to look at developmental theory and through her theoretical developments, the foundation for modern day developmental theory was laid. The Key concepts of Piaget’s theory are vital in understanding many of the contemporary developmental theories today. One of the key theoretical concepts developed by Piaget is adaptation ‘adapting to the world through assimilation and accommodation (Atherton, 2010).’ adaptation is crucial to theoretical concepts of development, it states that each child passes through various stages of development in which a child has to adapt to individual changes in their social environment, psychological development and personal development. For example an example of accommodating is, a child learns to grasp a new object in a different way, or learns that the new object should not be

My past personal and professional experience started with volunteering at a childcare facility in 2008. I was only 17 old and I would come after school to help out with the different age groups from ages 2 to 6 years old and also after schools ages 7 to 12. When I would come after school I would assist the teachers with activity preparations, organization and documentation regarding the files for the students and making sure that everything was up to date. Ever since volunteering at a childcare facility I started to become more interested in teaching and how much an influence I can be when it came to teaching. My freshman year in high school had introduced me to some amazing teachers throughout my adolescent years and it continued throughout

Santrok (2014) and McLeod (2015) both discuss Piaget’s concepts schemes, assimilation and accommodation. McLeod (2015) describes schemes as “units of knowledge” McLeod (2015) states that assimilation is when children use established schemes to deal with new situations and information. Accommodation

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) suggested that children have a different thought process than that of an adult (.REF) He argued that all children go through the same four stages of cognitive development in the same order and that development is biologically based which changes as the child matures. Piaget had a stage theory that children learn to adapt to the world around them by constant interaction, and that adaption significantly depends on two main processes, which, are accommodation and assimilation. Another two important concepts of Piaget’s theory are schema and equilibration. Schema which refers to organised knowledge that is used to guide action such as body schema, which helps an infant in its attempts to make sense of the world by the infant

Jean Piaget was a theorist who focused on mental processes of children (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 10). He inquired into the processes of how children understand the world and in what ways they think, apply their logic and their problem- solving ability (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 10). Piaget considered children as natural physicists who want to actively learn and control their world (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 10). He used concepts such as schemes, adaptation, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration to explain cognitive development (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 11). Piaget identified the cognitive processes of children in an orderly sequence of four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational (Rathus