University of California Berkeley Observing and Assesing Children Discussion

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Child Development Observation/Interview
For this project you will be conducting an observation and interview with a child between the ages of 3 and 10. In preparation for this you need to start thinking about who you will want to observe/interview and make contact with their parent or caregiver to gain permission and schedule at least 2 to 3 hours for the observation/interview.You will create an informed consent form for the parent/caregiver to sign giving you permission to observe and interview the child and parent and explaining the purpose of the observation and interview and what the information will be used for (comparison to child development theory) as well as identifying that you are not qualified to, nor will you be diagnosing any disorder or recommending any interventions for this child. You should also avoid the words "research" and "study" as you are not conducting a research study. It is best not to copy and paste an informed consent so you can avoid wording that does not fit this assignment. The parent/caregiver must sign and date the form as well as the child if the child is school age and above and able to understand the process.Here is a helpful website to get you started:

Part I - Describe the Observation

Recommendations: Prior to the interview/observation thoroughly read the sections in the text and other resources that relate to the age range of the child you are observing.

Observe for a minimum of 1 hour how the child interacts with others, how they play, any social, cognitive, emotional/psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, and/or motor characteristics or qualities. Take detailed notes of his or her behavior so you can analyze the behaviors and functioning in terms of developmental stages and theories related to these areas.
You may write this section in paragraph form describing your observational time with the child.

Part II - Interview of the Primary Caretaker

After observing the child, you will interview the parent or guardian about how this particular child functions. You should design a questionnaire that will help you to better understand your earlier observations of the child. You will also want to ask questions that will help you further understand the child’s social, cognitive, emotional/ psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, and/or motor functioning.

Examples of questions:

  1. Tell me about your child’s (ex: physical, social, emotional) development.
  2. What incidents come to mind?
  3. How has it changed from a year ago or six months ago?
  4. What have you noticed about her/his (ex: physical) abilities that you think may be unique to your child?

You may do this section in paragraph form or as Q&A.

Part III - Interview of the Child

The final step in the observation/interview is to interview the child as long as they are old enough to answer your set of questions. You should prepare ahead of time a list of questions to help you further determine his or her social, cognitive, emotional/psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, and/or motor functioning.

You should also come prepared with a series of tasks in the form of games, puzzles, physical activities, etc. to further determine the stage of his or her social, cognitive, emotional/psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, and/or motor achievement.

You may do this section in paragraph form or as Q&A.

Part IV – Write your analysis of the observation

As you prepare to write your paper try to identify this child’s functioning as it compares to normative information found in the text (e.g., Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, standard physical characteristics such as height and weight categories, Brown’s stages of language development, Kohlberg’s moral development stages, etc.) and/or your other readings (be sure to include appropriate citations).

Write a well integrated paper (be sure to use APA format) that includes an analysis of this child’s functioning as it compares to at least three (3)of the theories of child development presented in the book over the areas of functioning mentioned above (social, cognitive, emotional/psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, and motor). In other words, you will use at least three different theories of development to explain the child’s social, cognitive, emotional/psychological, sensory/perceptual, moral, physical, or motor functioning. Discuss any discrepancies you discover or other influences that may explain functioning unique to the child you observed. Conclude your paper with a thorough and comprehensive conclusion paragraph.

Be sure to use three scholarly sources in addition to your textbook(4 total sources). You may use sources from your annotated bibliography. Your paper is expected to be at least 1500 words but no more than 3000 words. You must list the word count of the body of the paper, not including the references page or title page.Final Project Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Signed and dated Informed Consent form

10

Part I - Explanation of child observation.

10

Part II/III - Caregiver and child interview summary.

10

Part IV – 1,500-3,000 word paper that thoroughly discusses observation and interviews as well as analysis of the child’s functioning from the perspective of 3 different developmental theories using the textbook and 3 additional resources. (4 total sources)

40

Proper APA format including citations and references. (minimum of 4 total sources cited)

15

Grammar, spelling, met and posted word count requirement

15

Total:

100

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Observing and assessing children’s learning and development.
When we watch children carefully in their environments, we observe that they are
learning. When we have an open minded approach to observing the way children interact with
their peers, we can see how rich their play and interaction with their peers is. Through
observation we can know the abilities of different children and the different elements that they
like (John, 2018). This can help us reevaluate the services that we offer and how relevant they
are to the abilities of a certain group of children. Detailed observation followed by a keen
assessment can enable us to understand how children make meaning in their world and how they
communicate using different means such as speech and other non-verbal cues. Communication is
key to developing and maintaining relationships (Smidt, 2005). Having a careful approach
towards analyzing children enables us to appreciate them fully as individuals.
We are constantly making observations in our lives. Most of the time, we are aware of
what is happening around us. We make both casual observations and professional observations.
Casual observations help the setting to run smoothly since we can read cues to understand what
people want and change what we think about other people. When a person is working effectively
with children, we can watch and see what measures she has used and it can help us to determine
how we should do some things. We observe children so that we can know what they know and
their different abilities and support overall provision and planning (John, 2018). Observing a
child can enable us to understand what they are interested in. For instance the child under
observation seems interes...


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