Reflection On Child Development

I set goals for all the children in my care and we are constantly working toward them each day. When I began this project with the child I set them goals after I seen they were capable of completing the present goal. I think the benefits form this is a positive step forward for the children and their learning goals.

Why you have chosen to be in the field. Children in this field can develop a positive self-esteem, foster a love of learning, and develop important social skills. I choice the field of child development because preschool age children are eager to learn and a joy to teach. I enjoy creating developmentally appropriate activities for children. They enjoy a variety of activities and need to be guided through play. The qualities most preschoolers share are they love to take on roles such as a mommy, teacher, or other grown up role, they want to please the adults and they are learning to communicate their needs. Early childhood education research shows children who attend preschool programs are more likely to succeed in many things such as going to college, graduate high school, staying out of prison. Children will learn important social skills that may help them such as learning good manners at snack, raising their hand during circle time, and many other skills. I plan to further my education by reading books by child development experts, taking more child development classes/workshops and professional development workshops as needed.

Anyone who works with children can use a little guidance. Things that they need to know about are they ways that children develop. They need to know how to nurture the children they are taking care of. There are certain ways to do everything. Some programs tell you how to recognize how children are progressing and how to help them to progress in their development. This article gives tips on all those subject including what to do when a child is not developing the way it is expected to.

I am passionate about working in a child care setting with young children. I love to see a child’s face light up when they learn or try something new. Similar to this quote, “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” written by an anonymous. This statement made me giggled and lit up my face when I saw it on the back of a car. This made me think back to my teachers who had made a big impact in my life and taught me valuable lessons. My internship will display this passion by allowing me to work with children and help me gain the knowledge, training and experience that I may need to support the children in a child care setting.

I believe that play and social interaction keep an essential role in every child’s development, that is the reason I decided to pursue a career in childcare. Through daily interaction with children in their early years, I find children are so interesting, the way they can be so creative and imaginative is amazing.

The developmental theories can not be more evident than during the out of class assignment at the daycare facility. During this independent assignment, I was able to observe and interact with pre-school children in an environment that is both encouraging and facilitating to a child’s developmental growth. So, just as Piaget in his developmental theory believed that children takes an active role in the learning process, acting much like little scientists as they perform experiments, make observations, and learn about the world; the pre-school teachers allowed them to do just that. Indeed, the teachers at the day care provided room for the child to learn and explore while at the same time adhering to a structure that set boundaries and limitations. Thus, the pre-school children, begrudgingly, learns to follow a meticulous schedule of activities and rest.

Describe the expected pattern of children and young people's development from birth to 19 years, to include:

* They begin in some instances to feed themselves, though lacking the needed coordination, resulting in a lot of mess.

I hope that my learning will develop through extensive reading about developmental norms, the theories of learning and play, as well as curricula documents in evaluating the child’s overall holistic development. I am intrigued to learn how to assess a child’s development by carrying out observations and evaluations during my placements. I hope that I will learn how to organize and implement activities with young children and learn how to demonstrate the understanding of how a child acquires language, along with developing the strategies to support the child’s development. I have never had the opportunity to work with babies in a day care setting, and I’m really looking forward to finding out how this differs to my own previous experience in a primary school.

Over the past eight weeks this class has not only fulfilled my major requirements, but also made me understand more about the complexity of child development and how I can become a better person as a future parent and educator. Since I am an Education major, the four topics that would benefit me in the future are Erikson’s stages, Induction, Educational Self Fulfilling Philosophy, and Adolescence. I plan to be successful with my career and use what I have learned in Child Development to prepare future’s leaders of tomorrow.

For this paper, I interviewed my father, Terry Joe Burk. I decided to interview him because he has been there my whole life and has been able to see how I have developed and changed over the years. He was able to answer all of my questions and give me many examples of how my development compares to my siblings and to his own. He was also able to give me many examples about my life that I would not have had without this interview. I conducted the interview in person over Thanksgiving break so that I would be able to spend more time on the interview and be able to better explain my project and the questions I was asking him.

There are multiple factors in a child’s development. Parents have a responsibility, as well as a privilege, to contribute to every milestone. Most parents stress over physical and mental stages so much so that play-time is ignored. By making decisions that sacrifice play parents hinder their social development. Parents must take action and encourage their youth to play more, before childhood is lost forever.

Child Development is one of the most important times of a person's life. From birth to early adulthood we are almost constantly experiencing new changes and factors that shape who we are as a person. If we do not receive the right key elements to develop healthy relationships, coping mechanisms, and life skills, we could have several developmental issues that occur in later years of our life. Developmental Psychology is the study of lifelong, often age-related processes of change in the physical, cognitive, moral, emotional, and social domains of functioning. Some of these changes include the way our bodies change physically, the way we change socially and start developing friend groups with common interest, or the way we create

This semester in Child Development has helped me a great deal. I came into this class wanting to be a Child Development teacher at the high school level. I am leaving this class with the same ambition to become a Child Development teacher. I have learned so much by taking this class and I know it will all be helpful in the future once I am standing at the front of a classroom. Also, just by watching the way Mary teaches the class, I have learned things that I want to take into my own style of teaching.

In the beginning of starting my service learning, I preferred to work with older adolescents. I believe that it would be easier to interact, engaged, and teach adolescents life skills that they could use once I left my service site. I do not want children in the future and I did not think I could manage younger children because I typically get annoyed quickly because they need consistent help and guidance. Younger children need an extreme amount of attention and I am someone who prefers to watch over children, but also allow them to have their independents and learn through experiences. I realize with younger children I am not granted that ability because in a blink of an eye, if I am not watching closely, there could be a serious safety or health concern. I was nervous when I was told that I will be working with children ages 5 and 6. I have been apart from my family for five years, so I have a disconnect to what children their ages like to do or what interest them.