My knowledge of child development is helping me doing observations and assessments. I am able to affectively plan for the individual child and their needs by adapting activities promoting their social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. Children need to be challenged, if the work they are given is too easy they will become bored. I am aware the way I model myself could also the children’s behaviour and development. If I were to shout or be bad tempered this could then make me unapproachable to the children.
It is just as important to listen to the child/colleague/parent, as it is to communicate verbally with them. Good communication is vital. It can prevent misunderstandings and unnecessary worry. It is essential that you build a good rapport with whomever you are speaking or listening to, to implement effective communication. Body language and the tone of voice used is extremely important in communication.
People communicate for many different reasons, such as: To give and receive information, To give and receive instructions, To express needs, To share ideas, Develop learning, Establish and maintain relationships with others, Negotiate, Discuss a situation, To make a point or outline a concern. To understand and be understood. 1.2 How effective communication affects all aspects of own work. Effective communication is important to meet the needs of the children. To ensure effective teamwork and continual care of the children we must communicate well by keeping each other informed and aware of current situations going on around us.
CYP Core 3.5 2.1 Why positive relationships with people involved in the care of children and young people are important. It is important for other people to have positive relationships with children because the child needs to gain trust with others too. The child will need to be able to work with teachers to enable them to achieve goals through their education; they also need to feel confident at the doctors in case they need wounds dressing, or an examination of some kind. It is important to have a positive relationship with the speech therapist because they may have a barrier with communication. This can lead to the child gaining the ability to communicate with others.
We as staff must communicate in order to keep the children safe from relaying information of a hazard check or announcing the finding of a potential hazard to passing on concerns about a child if that should arise. We must also communicate with parents in order to tell them how their child is adapting and progressing within the nursery and with the use of the welsh language. We must also alert them if an accident or incident has occurred that day. Without proper communication the nursery wouldn't function properly and we would be unable to stay open. 3.
* Plan new experiences and activities * Suggest and where appropriate offer alternative / different ideas. * Value work by finding ways to use and display it. 2.ANALYSE THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. To get children to become resilient - to rely on themselves, they've got to believe that they are capable of doing this. Adults have got to take children seriously, listen to them, make them feel that they are important, encourage children to try things out for themselves (you start with young children, by being close by, so they know there is an adult there if they need them - this often gives them more confidence to try things).
These areas can be meet through certain activities, for example literacy, mathematics, understanding of the world, and expressive arts and design, these activities are important for the child as they can help them develop in the prime areas if development, expressive arts and design can help the child emotionally as they can paint a picture of how they are feeling. The EYFS handbook also says that educational programmes must involve activities and experiences for the children, the first thing they advise is communication and language the handbook says that this area of development ‘involves giving children opportunities for young children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves’ (EYFS handbook, 2014) this can help the children to communicate what they are doing better and can help them understand different languages this could be important if the child’s spoken language isn’t English, as the child can learn through taking parts in the different activities. The second activities advised is physical development which ‘involves providing opportunities for the children for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement’ (EYFS handbook, 2014) this could be using a obstacle course which the children can use to work on their
Unit 29 Outcome 1 1.1 The importance of multi-agency is to help children and families e.g. one professional may identify needs and refer the child or family on to other agencies. A child with complex needs may need more support from more agencies to allow positive outcomes. The child’s information is shared correctly for the need of the child. 1.2 multi agencies and integrated working is very important in helping children to achieve positive outcomes for example e.g.
If it’s listening or talking, some children and young people find it very difficult to communicate. It’s very important to a child’s development that they are encouraged to find ways of communicating with other children or adults. Obviously the sooner a child is found to have speech or language problem the better, as they can then get the help and support they need to develop their communication skills. Every child a talker is a suitable approach which promotes the importance of a stimulating and interesting environment in which children and young people are encouraged to develop their communication and language skills. It also supports the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.
Maintaining a relationship with someone is very important also as it keeps you in contact with others. It keeps you in touch with the feelings and needs of others, which is essential in any functional relationship. This is very important when working with children as you need to be informed as to their needs, in order to have a happy work environment. Again, I believe this leads back to the issue of trust. If children can approach you with a problem (without hesitation) then I would class this as a good relationship.