in preschool setting explain why observations are important in understanding and supporting development?
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Observations are important so you can document progress and areas that need more attention. It's too hard to remember what each child's areas of development are. When you observe them , you have concrete evidence of where they are and where they need to be. the next time you observe the same child you can document the growth ( or non-growth)
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By singing rhymes to preschoolers they will have songs that they know when they begin to learn the alphabet and start sounding out words. I keep big posters all around my classroom with the rhymes written on them with pictures so that they can tell which rhyme it is.\nThey love to point out the words that they recognize and pretend to read while they sing. I think that mainly singing rhymes to preschoolers helps them later on in the first years of school to realize that words do mean something about things that they all ready know. It really is a great booster to their ego when they think they are great readers and they can do it.
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Developmental Skill  Spatial Awareness: The ability to work within one's own space; the ability to organize people and objects in relation to one's own body. Affects distractibility from tasks. \n\n\n\nSpatial Awareness \n\nSpatial awareness is, very simply, an organized awareness of the objects in the space around us, and also an awareness of our body’s position in space. Without this awareness, we would not be able to pick food up from our plates and put it in our mouths. We would have trouble reading, because we could not see the letters in their correct relation to each other and to the page. Athletes would not have the precise awareness of the position of other players on the field and the movement of the ball, which is necessary to play effectively. \n\nSpatial awareness requires that we have a model of the three dimensional space around us, and it requires that we can integrate information from all of our senses. \n\nStudies have suggested a link between a well-developed sense of spatial awareness and artistic creativity, as well as success in math. It can also be important in the development of abstract thought. The ability to organize and classify abstract mental concepts is related to the ability to organize and classify objects in space. Visual thinkers, in particular, will tend to use their visual imagination to organize abstract thought. \n\nBecause spatial awareness is so important in all activities of human life, from the most basic to the most advanced, deficiencies in spatial awareness can hold people back from achieving their true potential. However, because spatial awareness requires integrating the information from the different senses into the three-dimensional model of the world provided by the vestibular system, activities which refine the vestubular system and develop sensory integration can refine all aspects of brain processing. \n\nBalametrics’ has developed products and therapies that can help people to develop and hone their spatial awareness, and sensory integration, helping them to succeed in life.
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1. to tell the diff parts\n2. to do demonstrations\n3. for visual learners, they can understand better\n4. to study\n5. ...im out of ideas...\nhope it helped
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I teach preschool.   I love it.  There is nothing more rewarding then seeing their faces and their eagerness to learn.
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Gaining new understanding about why things work.
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What are you assessing during your observation?\n\nBehavior...often a time chart is used, where a check mark is placed for each target behavior is observed in a given segment of time.\n\nAcademic performance... behaviors during instructional time, skill practice time, and independent generalization to other activities/environments are watched for and documented.
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We desperately need more qualified Kindergarten and Early Childhood Educators. Sadly, we do not pay them what they deserve. Early Childhood education is all about using our senses and observing Nature. Psychology, human development, biology, environmental science, chemistry, math, sociology, anthropology and music are great starters, especially human dev and bio in high school.  The very best of good fortune to you.
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A lot of early childhood development is still going off of the workds of Piaget, Vigogosty, Freud, Skinner, and Maslow.  \n\nWhat specifically are you looking for?  This is a very broad question.
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Are you saying you want to know the benefits of putting preschool children in poverty or the benefits of putting poor children in preschool?  I think your Q is worded kind of funny.  \nBenefits of any children in preschool include learning how to interact with other children, learning how to function in a structured school setting, increased immunity to sickness (early exposure makes them stronger and less susceptible in the future), etc.  There's all sorts of benefits.  Kids are sponges at that age, and any exposure to learning is only going to help them.  I think the biggest benefit (my opinion, of course) is that they become social creatures.  Often children who aren't around other children and away from their parents are more socially awkward.  They haven't learned how to share and be independent as opposed to children who have been in preschool.  For children of poverty, preschool is a way to help them "catch up" on things they may have missed at home.  Oftentimes parents in poverty are busy trying to make money for their families and can't devote time to important developments in their children's lives (reading comes to mind).  Check out the link below on Head Start.  I'm sure they've got all sorts of articles on it.
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The stages of cognitive development\nMain article: Theory of cognitive development \nPiaget became a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1929 to 1975 and is best known for reorganizing cognitive development into a series of stages-- the levels of development corresponding roughly to infancy, pre-school, childhood, and adolescence. The four stages, which expand earlier work from James Mark Baldwin, are labeled the Sensorimotor stage, which occurs from birth to age two, (children experience through their senses), the Preoperational stage, which occurs from ages two to seven (motor skills are acquired), the Concrete operational stage, which occurs from ages seven to eleven (children think logically about concrete events), and the Formal Operational stage, which occurs after age eleven (abstract reasoning is developed here). These ages are approximate and great variation between children argue against norms. For Piaget, each stage is characterized by a general cognitive structure that affects all of the child's thinking (a structuralist view influenced by philosopher Immanuel Kant). Each stage represents the child's current understanding of reality, and each but the last is an inadequate approximation. Development from one stage to the next is thus caused by the accumulation of errors in the child's understanding of the environment, an accumulation which eventually causes such cognitive disequilibrium that thought structures require reorganising.\n\n[edit]\nPiaget's view of the child's mind\nPiaget viewed children as little philosophers and scientists building their own individual theories of knowledge. Some people have used his ideas to focus on what children cannot do. Piaget, however, used their problem areas to help understand their cognitive growth and development.\n\n[edit]\nInfluence\nPiaget's theory of cognitive development has proved influential, notably on the work of Lev Vygotsky and of Lawrence Kohlberg. Among others, the philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas has incorporated it into his work, most notably in The Theory of Communicative Action. Piaget also had a considerable impact in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. Seymour Papert used Piaget's work while developing the Logo programming language. Alan Kay used Piaget's theories as the basis for the Dynabook programming system concept, which was first discussed within the confines of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC. These discussions led to the development of the Alto prototype, which explored for the first time all the elements of the graphical user interface (GUI), and influenced the creation of user interfaces in the 1980's and beyond. The philosopher Thomas Kuhn credited Piaget's work in helping him understand the transition between modes of thought which characterised his theory of paradigm shifts. Piaget has had a substantial impact on approaches to education. In Conversations with Jean Piaget, he says: "Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators—not conformists," (Bringuier, 1980, p.132).
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this article should help you ..\n\nhttp://parentcenter.babycenter.com/expert/preschooler/pdevelopment/69440.html
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appart from the basics of hearing which i assume you understand, its all about learning and theories of learning. Albert Bandura surmised that people learn through imitation, so therefore infants watch intently and copy what we do. This includes vocalization. As infants become older they are able to learn new words and string them together.
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Observation, research, organization, development and accomplishment
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I agree with you 100%.  I am an Early Childhood Educator with no children as of yet and most of my family, friends and neighbours come to me for advice about their children.  Life experience is sometimes good enough to learn what you need to know.  Not to say that real hands on experience doesn't help but it doesn't mean you don't know anything either.
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try this  web site  for preschoolers \nwww.freewebs.com/letsread/\n\nanimations and music enhance learning
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Your first step would be to start doing some written evaluations. Without knowing the children's ages, it is impossible to be able to give you a more accurate answer. You need to start observing and documenting and after a few days of doing that for each child you are concerned about, compare your notes with developmental milestones that you know they should have either already reached, or should be working on. Then you need to use those findings to write out a goal for that child to reach the next milestone using what you know they have already learned.\nAs a teacher it is your role to not TELL a parent what is "wrong" with their child, but to look to yourself to see what you can do in the classroom utilizing the tools of observation and knowledge. \nIn parent teacher conferences, this tool is excellent. You can bring out your written observations and show the parents...this is where your child is, this is where he should be, this is my goal for him, what things are you noticing at home.\nThis way is best because you are not approaching the parent with a "teacher knows best" tact, you are using your knowledge and expertise to tell the parent that they are needed in their child's development and asking them for ideas and suggestions and including them in your program specifically designed for their child.\nWhen a parent feels that you are going above and beyond for their child, more than likely they will jump on board.\nI use this method. I have yet to have any complaints or awkward meetings. \nOf course, you will get the occasional parent who just won't listen or will think you are wrong. Maybe there is a culture difference or even a language barrier that makes the situation harder than you feel it should be. However, your chosen venue, being a teacher, means that you should have the patience (not all the time of course) to not only search and try the best avenue into helping the children in your care, but also looking into helping those families with difference in culture and language barriers as much as the other families because the children are your first and foremost priority in the classroom.\n\nI hope this helps.