Lessons Learned In Working With Children

Task 21. Explain why it is important to work with the child or young person to ensure they have strategies to protect themselves and make decisions about safety.

Equipment- Dress up clothes, pushchairs, doll’s, hair dryer, brushes, rollers, tills, shopping baskets/trolley’s, play food ect……

1. In your own words summarise the major learning points from the whole of the study programme with particular reference to:

Promoting confidence that every child can improve will see the child gain satisfaction on their own progress and will give them a sense that they can continue to improve, a teacher or TA can do this by giving

- Discussions and teaching sessions of children washing their hand prior to meals, and after the toilet.

I have had numerous opportunities to volunteer and work with children of all abilities. Many of these children had independent or concurrent learning disabilities, emotional problems, and/or behavioural problems. I met these individuals through organizations I volunteered or worked for, programs I organized, and through summer camps where I was a counsellor that all catered children with disabilities. I also have personal relationships with children of family friends.

There will be numerous policies and procedures within a setting and Staff need to be aware of them. There will be a number of other policies written to safeguard the children, young people, staff, and visitors from danger and to ensure safe practice throughout the setting. The purpose of this policy is to maintain an environment where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to. Also children know that there are adults in the day care centre who they can approach if they have any issues for example if a child is suffering from neglect at home the staff at the day care centre and other multi agencies will work together to improve the child’s situation, so that he will stop suffering from neglect at home.

Overall, I enjoyed practicum and having the opportunity to gain more experience working with children. I also enjoyed getting to practice what we learned the week before every Monday when I went into practicum because I tried to incorporate or carry out what guidance strategy we learned about the next time I went in to practicum to really ingrain the strategy in my head. I also enjoyed how I got feedback throughout the semester from the Lab School Teacher’s because when I did practicum in HDFS 224 I barely got any feedback besides at the end of the semester. One thing that kind of surprised me was that in practicum I communicated effectively with quiet children well. It surprised me because to me I think it is easier to communicate and interact

It is essential that all staff have a consistent and fair approach when dealing with children and young people. Children find it easier to display positive behaviour when they know what is expected of them. When the boundaries and rules are unclear children can become confused and may not be sufficiently developed enough to be able to articulate their confusion. As a result their behaviour may deteriorate as they find other ways to express their frustration. When the rules and boundaries are clear and applied consistently by all adults children will feel much happier and safe.

1. Developmentally appropriate practice as defined by NAEYC is a “framework of principles and guidelines for best practice in the care and education of young children, birth through age 8. Children cannot perform tasks that they are not yet developmentally capable of doing and teachers have to be aware of this. One would not expect a one year old child to be able to write their name, not only because they are not cognitively able to understand this task, but also because their fine motor skills have not developed enough to hold a writing instrument. Therefore, most adults would realize this task is not developmentally appropriate. A kindergarten teacher, for example, can able to expect his or her students to know why it is necessary as

This document is designed for a Childcare and Education Student to explain how Oak Tree Nursery Class provides a positive environment for its children.

Not all children comprehend things at the same level, that’s why it is so important to teach them basic skills young so later on throughout life certain tasks will not be so hard for them. Children can also gain life skills just by doing simple things such as working puzzles. While working the puzzles children gain problem solving skills as they try and fit the pieces together and figure out what goes where, it also develops a sense of persistance.(How to Support Children’s approach to learning?). Children need to learn the basic skill of problem solving because it is needed for tasks throughout life whether it is a math problem or real life problems. Persistence is needed in many situations where the child may want to

This week at Tufts, I was able to intern both Friday and Saturday. Going into this week, I imagined going in two days in a row would be beneficial to my experience. I thought that I would be able to build a stronger connection to some of the children that would be staying at the hospital; however, this was not the case. I realized from working these past two days that the role and day of a Child Life Specialist depends on the admittance to a hospital. This may be the case for other hospital staff as well. On Friday, there was 20 total children who were admitted to the hospital, 6 of whom were in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMT) which has their own specific Child Life Specialists. A few of those children were being discharged later in the afternoon, so during the

Take care of motivation, and learning will take care of itself. Learning comes from all forms of understanding. A person whether they are children or adults must take care of themselves in order to focus and maintain what is important. Self esteem in students is especially important when students are learning so when the self-esteem is high the motivation is high thus the learning will excel. One of the key responsibilities as teachers is to become a motivator. Motivation is how people move themselves to do an activity, job or anything that needs to be done. Motivation comes within the person and the interest and the spark of curiosity must be ignited, as teachers we gain motivation by rewards, and grades. Which is why motivation needs to be monitored constantly if we have the motivation than our learners will want to learn.

Guiding young children is an awesome responsibility that requires patience, understanding, flexibility, knowledge of child development and appropriate practices, intentional decision-making, but most of all guiding young children requires kindness and love. Guidance involves discipline, not punishment. To begin our discussion on guidance let’s first look at the difference between discipline and punishment. “Discipline is used to teach and guide. Punishment is used for the purposes of controlling and retribution.” (Godfrey, 2013) Guiding children does not mean taking punitive action when they fail to meet an expectation. Instead, guiding means to help children learn how to function suitably in a variety of social contexts. The goal is not to break a child’s spirit, causing them to fear harsh punishment or judgement. The goal is to teach them how to regulate their emotions and actions, to develop control, so they can make safe, responsible decisions.