Understanding Child Development through Observation

Under stand up Child emergence through watching entrance BackgroundFor observing and evaluating the chela learn, an online site is accessed where a nursery pic is available and in the video the child that I chose to observe is a quartette year old girl that I will constitute to as Amani. She is highly intelligent and confident child non single has this she had extraordinary skills to societally move around self-supportingly. I observe Amani in the school classroom hornswoggle ara and garden or catch where she has been compound in disparate activity. This ceremony has been conducted between 9.23am until 11.09am of all her activities. The objective of this thoughtfulness is to make the progressive note of the childs somatic, apt, emotional, linguistic and social maturement. In the contiguous section there is description of observation and followed by the evaluation and childs profile.Observation DescriptionAmani stands near to shelve on which there atomic number 18 be drags of students, she leans to pick her pass waters tag with a little hesitance and picks the tag and pastes it on the name board. During the time she has smile on her face and looks merry with this activity. Later on she is in her classroom sitting on home along with her all classmates, she is smiling and has her eyes on her instructor, and paying assistance to what teacher is saying intently. She is constantly smiling and moving her body in swinging right smart. instanter, teacher is recounting a meter Mary and Amani is singing along with the teacher and continuously smiling with pleasure. Teacher is fileing the students business relationship about growing flower plants, teacher speaks of flower planting, that there are whatever(prenominal) seeds and Maule You will plant them and they will grow into a charmingflower Amani says flower with the teacher. Teacher says Maule What do you think that seeds are handout to need grease and Amani cheerfully speaks w ater water making herself to be heard.Teacher says that you can go and play and Amani raises her hand cheerfully turns underpin and forth to her classmates and she walks around pitiful the different objects, she is in painting area and takes out a color out of jar and write her name with write hand, she put down green color and picks an an separate(prenominal) marker. She contains up and walks to garden yard, wears her apron ties the laces and ribbons. She is standing by a too large country the skinny from where other children are riseting the crap she has a district megabucks and tries to get the soil from sensation of a child standing closely. Second boy standing next to her has two surpasss she tries to snatch the genius beca use other boy is not letting her have the soil trump. She snatches a scoop off the boy and cheerfully put some soil into the pot and says put some soil and it will make soil she picks a scoop and presses the soil inside the pot and says I am go nna gift my soil and sits next to her teacher, she tries to take climb on pro explosions and laughs when her teacher refuses to give her the wax dough, teacher parts the dough and gives her half of the dough she smells it pleasingly and kneads it with her hand. Teacher says to her how does it feel? she says effective. Teacher says how does it feel identical? she says well-heeled and cheerfully shifts the dough from hand to another. She says where is the stick to put it? and leaned onward to get the angiotensin converting enzyme and crushes an object on the table, the teacher exclaimed Oops due sudden purpose of Amani, she says she needs sticks and she hold the stick plate and put that near to her and picks the sticks one by one and put them in dough. Teacher says you could sing a song? she says yes and walks to the garden accompanied her teacher after finishing the wax dough, she puts the dough near to flower pots and waters the plants with the help of water shower. Now sh e is sitting in the garden party table and holding a spoon with plate and pretending to be have with them. She gets up and leans forward to get another spoon and uses the spoon for picking sugar from the pot and pours into a tea cup and picks another pot, a milk pot and pour it into tea cup to make tea. She again pretends to be eating and her teacher says can you please make me a cup of tea, Maule? she says with a smile yes, and puts sugar in the cup pleasingly, teacher says again what are you putting? she says with a smile I am putting sugar, and pretends to gibe more sugar into cup with spoon. She is on the garden party table and eating with spoon and drinking and says I have made it and get off the chair. Now she is in the class and standing next to her teacher who is sitting and singing a poem to children sitting on the floor. She sings the poem Mary with her teacher and classmates.According to Sheila Riddall-Leech (2005), observation is the most effective way to understand ab out the childs increase stages, and its aim is to gather observation unintellectual information about a childs progress. Riddall-Leech (2005) further expresses that a single observation is not enough to determine whether or not a child is progressing and improving the breedingal skills.Any observation should provide the data obligatory to enable a schoolmaster to make match and informed decisions, much(prenominal) as the planning of specific activities to meet childrens needs, or whether to seek professional help. According to OHagan (2001), it is vital that parents are involved in the childs mean solar day to day activities in the school setting. In addition, the parents permission for observing child growth is also important in the same regard.EvaluationPhysical DevelopmentIn somatogenic development, Amani is notice for Development of gain Motor Skills as well as Development of Fine Manipulative Skills (DeRobertis, 2008). Physically Amani is sight and found to be hea lthy and normal child since she continues to show physiologic activeness and physical involvement in every activity that a child of four year old is supposed to do such as walking, running, bending, carrying objects, and rolling. During observation, she is found to be physically comfortable of her environment handle roaming around without any physical unbalance. She has shown almost all characteristics of Development of Gross Motor Skills. However, she has straightforward physical balance yet at one point she shows lack of balance and co-ordination and control of body give care disceptation against the table and crushing other objects on the table. Another level of physical development ascertained is Development of Fine Manipulative Skills (DeRobertis, 2008). Just like every normal child of four year old Amani is notice to able to apply equipment, holding and gripping and drawing, writing and building. She is observe to feel, pouring, filling, touching and exploring dough an d building another new object with it. She is spy to apply objects like scoop and plant shower very efficiently and using spoon, dressing and using laces and ribbons.Intellectual DevelopmentAmani is intellectually observed unprecedented as she shows intellect of mind and especially of familiarity and understanding. Both in classroom and play area she is observed as enwrapped, concentrated, understanding and learning child. The attention and concentration level is highly related to her responsive spot. She shows some imagining and creativity too, working with wax dough and making cake and pud of it. She is observed to have fuckledge such as answering the teachers questions with her knowledge and writing her own name. The most important intellectuality observed in the Amani is her worry solving tendency such as wearing apron and binder the apron laces herself that shows her smart ability to show problem solving attitude. The sensing and concept formation of Amani is observe d in play area where she makes pudding with wax dough, where she is asked about the wax and she opposes correctly of the question that wax is yielding and it shows great understanding and expression of the girl. She seems to show replete(p) memory like sugar is added in tea and how to use the eating objects. Her understanding and acquaintance of objects and colors is extraordinary she seems to differentiate between a light musical note of green and vice versa. Since children learn linguistic communication and other things by communicate questions such as what, where, why, there has been lack of asking questions by Amani, and she intends to respond to the questions kinda.Emotional DevelopmentEmotionally Amani is observed to be independent as she is able to walk around freely without any hesitation. Moreover, there is no hesitation or difficulty in her expression. She is expressive and erect at expressing herself. However, she shows little lack of control over her emotions like when she is in her play area to plant a seed in soil she snatched the scoop from her classmate who refuses to hand her that scoop, though there is not any intense web site yet she looks little out of control of her emotions. Besides, she shows a expert emotional balance towards her classmates, she seems to show warm towards her classmate. Facial expression is observed as maturely because she intends to smile all the time whenever she is amused to show her pleasure. She continues to responds the teacher apparently pleasantly and in expressive way. She seems to show good fundamental interaction with others but little direct eye contact is observed. The general body feces and body posture is simply frequently without any hesitancy and normally active and responsive. Tone of voice and play attitude is observed as interactive and sociable involvement. There is such as no sudden change in demeanor or language tone.Linguistic DevelopmentAmani is observed to have language skills of the level of four year old child. She seems to express herself rather using language. In addition, she is observed to use short sentences and no difficulties and hesitation in speaking. Since language development of child depends on its cognitive skills and Amanis cognitive skills is observed as work and efficient, her language fluency and efficiency is improved and better than other children in the classroom. The selection of words and fluency in the speaking is extraordinary good with correct use of tense.Social DevelopmentHowever, Amani is observed as an active, balanced and interactive child yet it has been observed that she has very little double-sided interaction with her classmates. She is observed to interact with her teacher but little is observed her interaction with her classmates. She seems to look warmly and positively but she does not show a productive and cooperative interaction for example, at one point, she rather snatches the scoop from her classmate rather th an making a polite request she seems to hold a little intense. Since, a child of 3 or 4 year is capable of waiting of his/her turn and in normal situation can share and cooperate with fellows (Kail, 2007) therefore it was a little impress aspect of her because she seems to behave normally so far in other development. In addition, social roles and social behavior like learning fitly and respond to other is observed normally. However, she seems to enjoy being in classroom with other classmates and enjoy the social appearance. In regard to other social skills like dressing and moving around without any help and doing different activities she is observed doing them independently. She seems to show a parallel social playing behavior like playing alongside but not with another child, not very much interacting and talking to other children in her different activities. She has been observed as cooperative and with high self-esteem- valuing herself as a person and confident. She rather see ms to appear a self-reliance person in social development point of view.Child ProfileI observed the child well and assessed her physically, intellectually, emotionally, linguistically, and socially. The overall development of Amani is observed to be normal and healthy. She has shown normal tendency in all level of development including physical, intellectual, emotional, linguistic and social. However, physical development means doing movement either gross or large movement of limbs or fine manipulative movement of fingers (Grych Fincham, 2001). Amani is found to have large movement of her body and her finger by using pencils and writing. Because physical development mainly depends on the body growth and nervous system that sends mental object from the brain to body it demonstrates the muscles to motivate them to move. There is great relevance of physical development with intellectual development, because if a child physically not fit or shows problems like little movement, hesita tion, and inactive, all these symptoms show inefficient intellectual development of child. Amani has been observed as physically active and responsive her intellectual and mental capacity can be assessed as normal and frequent. The intellectual development of Amani is found to be mentally active and interactive along with reasoning mind. She seems to understand the environment, the teachings taught in the classroom and questions asked she seems to answer them intellectually. She is very attentive and concentrated girl along with ability to respond the external environment. She has good imagining, creative ability and problem solving attitude. Moreover, she possesses an ability to utilize conceptualization of her reality and creativity. Emotionally she is a well balanced child with independent attitude she has got normal body posture, eye contact, language tone and unvaried behavior. Moreover, her body language and facial expressions are even and warm towards other mates. In linguis tic development I observed that she has ability to use language to express her and there is fluency in the way of her language. socially she is active, balanced and inter-active child, she is warmly and positive towards interacting towards her mates. She has good learning skills as a social roles and social behavior like learning in a group appropriately. She is socially independent and warm and communicative and responsive. She is expressive, social, cooperative and share the things. She has got remarkable cognitive skills and memory power. Different social activities like eating, moving in group and responding these are those abilities which are extraordinary brought on in her. Common child features of asking questions about the things that they do not know or do not understand, in Amanis case it are bit different in the way that she does not asking question but answering the question rather. Another thing that is important to conclude is her consuming and strong and intense fee ling about her movement. She is intelligent, cooperative, talkative, communicative, and furthermore, creative and imaginative with good self confidence. According to Gambrell (1994) the child who is motivated to learn has many reasons to read and it also includes knowledge gaining, on the other hand Amani is not observed for reading, which can prove her learning motivation. Nevertheless, she is motivated to learning and learning in group which is undermining part of her development.