Unit 11 by Bev Revell https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta Preparing for School Readiness en-us 2020-09-30 12:22:44 UTC 2020-09-30 13:38:36 UTC hello@padlet.com beverley_revell50 https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta/wish/791097843 Different types of Observations:

. Photographs- You can see what the child is doing visually.

. Video recordings- You can see what the child is doing and if they are saying anything about the activity they are doing. 

. Check list- This is good when looking at physical development. For example, you could tick yes or no if a child can walk and then write how you can get them walking. Quick observation method. 

. Written Narrative- This is where you write everything the child is doing. This is a good method as you get lots of detail written down.  

. Time sampling- This is where the practitioner would observe the child at regular intervals such as every 15 minutes to note down what is happening at that moment.  

. Event sampling- These observations focus on particular events to build up a pattern of a child’s behaviour over a period of days or weeks. This is a good observation method as it shows if the child has changed in any of their developmental areas or if they’ve had a change in behaviour. 

. Target child- This looks at one child and the practitioner looks at the child’s holistic development. 

 

 

 

]]> 2020-09-30 13:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta/wish/791097843 beverley_revell50 https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta/wish/791152439 In my setting, I have seen practitioners carry out different observations such as taking pictures, writing narrative accounts, and doing check lists. They also have target children. Sometimes the observations are spontaneous so if the practitioner sees as child doing something they’ve not done before; they quickly write it down. Once an observation has been written, it is put in that child’s folder and safely stored away so that no one can access it who doesn’t need access to it. 

I have used check lists and narrative records of observations on a target child. I used these types as for the check lists it was a quick method for me to assess a child’s physical development. I used a narrative written record as it helped me to get more detail down about what the child was doing. 

 

]]> 2020-09-30 13:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta/wish/791152439 beverley_revell50 https://padlet.com/beverley_revell50/vsea4ftkxans3dta/wish/791224461 When I’m recording an observation, I am mainly objective but it’s hard not to be subjective. For example, when doing a narrative account, its hard not to be subjective because sometimes you just want to guess what a child is doing if you can’t figure out what it is they are doing with a toy. I make note of when a child has achieved something as it can help track their development. I would inform the child’s key person if I saw that the child had done something that was significant in their development. If I didn’t write down what I had seen or told the child’s key person, this would be bad as a major step in a child’s development has not been recorded physically, whether that be by a picture or in a written format. 

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