Observing Children

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Observing the children can help us to find out the strengths and weakness of each individual child. By using different methods of observing the child, we can: . Provide quite a lot of information in written narrative method. This is an open method of recording that makes a portrait of the child. . Discover about their interest. . Access to the child’s developmental level by doing time samples observation. . Learn about child’s personalities and characteristics. . Know about what skills the child need to work on it. . Learn about the child’s social development and supporting the child to make a friend by using sociograms. . Find out how does the child respond to the particular activity and how the child’s skills are improving. . Provide information …show more content…

Increase our information for giving it to the parents. This information may give parents some points to look out for. For example, with the check list or tick chart observation parents can be involved in looking out for skills at home. . Easily review what the child is doing and see the details by using camera method in observation. . Hear the child’s speech develop by doing sound recording observation. It is also useful for parents to hear it. Date of observation is also important because it allows us to see the progress of the child and it helps the observation to be seen valid, too. Observing the teacher is a supportive and developmental process for improving the quality of teaching. Here are some of the benefits when we observe other classes and watch what happens. For example, . We learn new things by watching what the teacher is doing in the class then we can emulate in our work. . We may learn lots about using learning technologies and or equipment which is not familiar for us. . We see different ways of teaching. In a small group of colleagues, we just see limited range of helping children. When we expand this range, we are likely to get more experience in different approaches that may be worth trying out for

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