ECE 128 Exam Flashcards
Physical Domain
Giving children the opportunities to grow their large and small motor skills; health and safety; nutrition; toileting procedures; rest and relaxation
Social Domain
Opportunities for learning socially desirable behaviors an social skills through interactions with peers and adults; development of empathy, respect, cooperation, sex role identification, rights of self and others, and the pleasure of friendship
Emotional Domain
Establishment of a climate of trust, where emotions are expressed appropriately; development of a strong, positive sense of self and strength of character without fear, manipulation, or discrimination
Creative Domain
Enhancing self-esteem and feeling of self-worth through opportunities to express emotions via free-form materials and open-ended experiences; experience life on one’s own term without fear of judgement
Cognitive Domain
Fostering analytical reasoning skills in all areas of life while maintaining a sense of wonder
Language Domain
Development of language skills through active experiences where concept formation and actual information is learned
Parten’s stages of play
Unoccupied Behavior
Onlooker Behavior
Solitary
Parallel
Associative
Cooperative
Unoccupied Behavior
Not engaged in any obvious play/social interaction Watches anything of interest at that moment.
No interest -> play with own body, move around, follow teacher or stay in one spot looking around
Onlooker Behavior
Watching other children play.
May talk/suggest/ask questions, but does not enter play.
Shows definite interest (unlike unoccupied)
Solitary Play
Play independent of anyone else.
Using different toys than others in immediate area.
No effort to get closer to others.
Focused entirely on own activity and is not influenced by what others are doing.
Parallel Play
Playing close to others, but still independent (beside others).
Uses like toys, but uses as he sees fit, neither influenced by others nor tries to influences others.
Associative Play
Child plays with others, sharing space and materials.
May be attempts to control who plays in the group, but not strongly asserted.
No division of labor or organization of activity.
Each child does as he/she wants without putting the interests of the group first.
Cooperative Play
Group play for a particular purpose.
Sense of “we-ness”, definitely belongs or does not belong to the group.
Some leadership present.
Requires some division of labor, taking on different roles and support of one’s efforts of those of the others.
Uses of Observations (6)
To learn about child development
To authentically assess children’s progress
To develop appropriate curriculum and instructional methods
To make wise guidance decisions
To reflect on your own practices
To prevent or solve problems
Guidelines in Observing Ethically
Protect children’s privacy by…
…Know who is and who is not allowed to read obs.
…Safeguard obs. notes and final reports by keeping notes private as you write them and restricting access to your notes after complete obs.
…Treat obs. reports as confidential docs by talking about them only when anaylzing, never initiating a convo about obs. with unauthorized persons, and by politely, but firmly, refusing to respond to questions about your obs
…Refraining from labeling children after gathering information
