Reflection On Child Development

Personal Interpretation Student learning outcome I addresses how students will display and apply their ability and understanding of child development through the use of theories, researches, and practices related to the discipline in the field of child development.

Prompt 1. In what ways have you grown in your understanding of this area? How did it happen? Throughout the courses such as the introduction to child development, observation techniques, developmentally appropriate curriculum for children, and methods of inquiry in child development, I have grown in my understanding of this student learning outcome I in many ways. I now understand the basic observation skills regarding children’s physical, cognitive, social, and emotional

By getting the opportunity to work with children and families in a lab school setting, childcare setting, and through naturalistic observations at Associated Students Child Development Lab for Infant and Modoc observation booth, I learned that parents and children influence each other and parent-child relations are influenced by other individuals and institutions. For example, the Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological systems theory explains how children encounter different levels of the environment such as microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem throughout their lifespan that may influence their behavior in varying degrees how they will grow and develop. Before I spent my time observing children and family behavior, I was not aware that the development of children is related to their experience and exposure to family, culture, peers, and community. After taking courses that lectured about the Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological systems theory in my socio-cultural context of psychological development course and child development courses, I have gain the knowledge to understand why children behave differently when professionals compare their behavior in the presence of their family and behavior when we are in school or at