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The Value of Observing Children
February 19, 2008
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
-Maya Angelou
-Maya Angelou
"Training teachers to really see children is manifestly important to the quality of early childhood education. If teachers are to help children learn at their best, they must see and understand them in all their diversity with caring wisdom. A good teacher will delight in keen observation and recording, sense in a second the knowledge to be gained, and soon realize its value to child, parent, and staff.
"As suggested in this writing, training teachers to observe children is perhaps best done in conjunction with a seminar or ongoing staff discussion, however informal, on child development. The two go hand in hand. Above all, training in observation requires daily practice, initially guided where possible by an experienced instructor and/or critical peer review."
"When We Really See the Child" is one of nine Exchange articles in the "Training Early Childhood Staff" collection of articles you can read in order to qualify for a CEU from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. To learn how you can do this, check out Exchange's new CEU program!
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Displaying All 2 CommentsOviedo Montessori School
Oviedo, Fl, United States
The role of the teacher, or guide, in a Montessori classroom IS to observe the child, and provide the child with the environment to satisfy his needs.
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Pitman, NJ, United States
And wouldn't it be wonderful if we remembered the PARALLEL PROCESS and used the same skill set as we observed teachers and "caught them doing something right?!?!" Let's not forget to do unto them as we want them to do unto others.
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