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Culture of Kid Watching
August 11, 2010
Every day, in a hundred small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response.
-L.R. Knost, Children’s Rights Advocate
-L.R. Knost, Children’s Rights Advocate
"Rather than focusing your professional development on topics, focus on observing children." This is the advice of Margie Carter in her Exchange (July 2010) article, "Drive-through Training". She explains....
"This involves more than observation workshops, though those can be helpful. Create an organizational culture that asks questions about the interesting things children are doing and saying, what these might mean, what engages our minds as adults. When you provoke curiosity, you grow reflection.
"Teaching-focused teachers work with predetermined learning outcomes and a set of lessons aimed at addressing those. Their teacher training often emphasizes this and typically doesn't call for closely observing children noticing their relationships and connections, listening to their questions and emerging theories, or analyzing patterns and themes in their play pursuits.
"Reflective teachers view their role and approach their work differently. They are focused less on teaching and more on the learning process children (and themselves as teachers) are engaged in.... When teachers see themselves as stage managers rather than directors, mediators rather than regulators, they continually reflect on what they are seeing and what the children might need in the way of scaffolding to deepen learning."
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Comments (3)
Displaying All 3 CommentsECDRC, IED, BRAC University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
It is an wonderful article what I have read after many days. Thank Margie Carter and Exchange authority who provide me to read it.
ECDRC, IED, BRAC University
Dhaka, United States
It is an wonderful article what I have read after many days. Thank Margie Carter and Exchange authority who provide me to read it.
Shishu Vikash Kendra
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
There are differences between trained and non-train child caregivers .
Trained teachers are trained various processes .They becomes child centered
But it is not possible to a non trained caregivers . Observation is very important .
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