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Observing and Recording the Behavior of Young Children
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Overview
Book Features:
- Provides early childhood educators with a guide for observing and recording as a way of better understanding children, while holding judgment in abeyance.
- Examines the need for teachers to reflect on their own experiences, even as children, and how these may influence their reactions to children’s interactions and behaviors.
- Focuses on the centrality of family, community, and culture in children’s lives, reflecting the diversity in contemporary early childhood classrooms.
- Explains the imperative for teachers to observe and record the behavior of young children as a means of interpreting their developmental capacities and abilities.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807769195 |
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Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
Publication date: | 05/24/2024 |
Edition description: | 7th ed. |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.61(d) |
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Table of Contents
ContentsPreface to the Seventh Edition ix
1. Getting Started 1 Why Records? 1Keeping Records 6Language as a Tool in Recording 9Importance of the Environment 12
2. Recording a Child’s Behavior During Routines 14 Organizing the Information 14The Meaning of Routines to Young Children 18Recording Eating Behavior 19Recording Toileting Behavior 23Recording Behavior at Rest Time 25Recording Behavior During Transitions 27Patterns of Behavior During Routines 28
3. Recording a Child’s Use of Materials 32 A Note on Technology 32The Meaning of Materials to Young Children 33What to Observe 38Records of Use of Materials 40How the Child Does What 41Records Illustrating Detail 44Interpretation: The Last Dimension 46Patterns of Behavior in Use of Materials 47
4. Recording Children’s Behavior With One Another 51 How Children Learn to Socialize 51Do We Really See What Is Going On? 55What to Observe 57Patterns of Behavior in Children’s Responses to Other Children 63Group Membership 65
5. Recording Children’s Behavior in Dramatic Play 68 Capacity for Symbolic Representation 70A Framework for Recording Dramatic Play 75Focusing on Dramatic Roles 78Social Aspects of Dramatic Play 84Patterns of Behavior During Dramatic Play 91
6. Recording the Child’s Relationships With Adults and in Adult-Directed Activities 93 Teachers Observe Themselves 93Recording a Child’s Interaction With an Adult 94Gaining Information About a Child’s Larger Social World 99Recording a Child in Teacher-Directed Group Activities 100Patterns of Behavior in Children’s Relationships With Adults 102
7. Clues to Cognitive Functioning: Developmental Approach 106 How Do Children Learn? 106Developmental Approach to Thinking in Early Childhood 108How Can We Know a Child’s Approach to Thinking? 112
8. Clues to Cognitive Functioning: Individual Approach 122 Temperament of a Child 122The Influence of Culture and Social Experience 123How Do We Know What Children Are Thinking About and Learning? 124How Can Teachers Discover What Children Know? 129
9. Observing Children Develop the Power to Think 134 Forming Generalizations 134Ability to Differentiate 135Ability to Perceive Similarities and Differences 136Ability to Draw Analogies 136Ability to Perceive Cause and Effect 137Time Orientation 137Ability to Seriate and Classify 139Perceiving Patterns 140Understanding Spatial Relationships 141
10. Recording Children’s Developing Language and Emerging Literacy 144 Language and Culture 144Recording Children’s Use of Language 146Observing Speech 155Observing Emergent Literacy 160
11. Recording Behaviors That Are Disquieting 163 Value of Gathering Information 163Examples of Unusual Behavior 164
12. Observing and Recording the Behavior of Infants and Toddlers 169 Making Sense of What You See 169The Value of Recording 170The Influence of Time of Day 171What to Observe 172
13. Patterns—Summary—Interpretation 200 Patterns 200Features of the Final Summary 203Interpretation 208Final Summary 209
References 213
Index 217
About the Authors 225
What People are Saying About This
"Like the earlier editions of this book, the sixth edition provides a theoretically sound and pragmatically useful 'how to' for observing and recording young children that simultaneously supports essential understanding and appreciation of how children develop. The sixth edition adds to the remarkable history of this volume with nuggets of updated insights reflecting the changing environments in which our children develop and grow."—Jon Snyder, executive director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education