The visit was pertaining towards the children being tardy multiple days. • Bmo disclosed that she asked Josh (person who was residing with her for the last couple of months) to leave the home around the same time the school social worker was present at the home. • The two girls said something to make him mad, but she is not sure of what statement was made. •…
Last year James stabbed another child in the back of the head was expelled from school. When the grandmother registered the children in school, she stated the children are not allow to talk to the guidance counselor, mental health counselor, school social worker, nor the principal. Loretta stated that they are not allowed to tell and they were told that “the kid who tells is the kid who gets beat the most.” This morning Sarafina came and got Loretta up because DSS was coming, and DSS can’t know that she lives there. DSS called the grandmother and stated that they were coming, supposedly Nancy kids are there but they don’t supposed to be there.…
The letter to the editor entitled, “Endless Bawling Can Damage”, published in the Gleaner of Monday, August 8, 2016 was written by Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock. A teacher of English, Mrs Williams- Pinnock outlines the correlation between babies crying continually and aggressive behaviour. To support her claims, the author draws evidence from an article: Crying Babies- Answering the Call of Infant Cries (Faris and McCarroll, 2010), which summarises research illustrating that “children whose brain experience an increased production of adrenaline will “display increased aggression…at inappropriate times…”…
EREPORT # 18797 stated the following: The incident happened various dates since Thanksgiving. Today 01/25/2016 was the latest incidentChild comes to school numerous times dirty and unclean, clothes are either too big or small and are often dirty. Hair is often times left unclean and not groomed. Child scratches her head often due to dandruff. Child has often times been touching and playing with herself and we had to call parent often to take child to doctor.…
This counselor received a call from Kayla's manager, Michelle Pickett, on 5/8/18 with concerns regarding Kayla's employment. Michelle stated that she has been on vacation for 2 weeks and just returned back to the office to hear that several complaints have been made regarding Kayla. She stated that she was surprised as Kayla was doing well before she left and chose to investigated things further. She informed this counselor that the center received a parent complaint regarding Kayla being "rough" with one of the infants. She stated that no staff witnessed this, but the center had to take the parent complain seriously.…
In the older toddler room (24 months), most of the children are beginning potty training. However, those children who are still in diapers, are changed in the bathroom with the child standing next to the caregiver changing them. This is so the caregiver can change a child and still watch the other children in the room. The caregiver always washes their hands and wears gloves when changing a child. The older toddler room also has plenty of snacks to the children, but also the children bring plenty of food from home provided by the parents.…
Observational Study of Infant and Caregiver An observational study is a form of naturalistic observation, “in which some naturally occurring behavior is observed without intervention in the situation” (Feldman, R.S., 2015, p. 27). On September 26th, 2016, an observer secretly watched a young, African American mother and her nine month old, female infant at the chain store BuyBuyBaby in Central Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia. For about an hour, from 15:00 to 16:00, the observer followed this mother and child throughout the store.…
Today I shadowed Amanda and it was very busy from the time I came to the time I left. When I first arrived she was in the cafeteria with the lady who had collapsed while eating. They had brought the lady back to the trauma room where they were starting to exam her to see why she may have collapsed. Amanda noticed that the patient could work her heart rate up into the 140s and she gets really upset when you would try to touch her and would freak out. We had to use the Marti translating system because she did not speak English and she wouldn’t respond to some questions.…
Introduction The observation of infant/toddler was conducted via videative to assess developmental stages in the average infant/toddler’s developmental stage. This observation study is done as a part of the curriculum requirement of ECE- Child Development program of Harper College. The study focuses on social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development of infant/toddler. Cognitive and Language Domain Observation:…
One male child kept to himself most of the time. I found out later that he was new to the toddler room from the infant area. He was still adjusting. The ratio of teacher to child is 1 to 4.…
How can you reflect on your practice to grow? I can only recall one situation during my clinical where I felt terrible about myself for not doing my best. One of my responsibilities as a student nurse to help other residents and not cause any harm to them. I remembered an incident where I had to go into a resident room to take her vital signs. And accidently causing her to have a skin tear while taking her blood pressure.…
Michael is a male educator who recently joined child care center and completed his degree and began to work with babies. On the other hand, a family from an Islamic background joined child care center recently. The little girl from that family is in Michael’s care. Her father thinks that the men should be banned from changing nappies in the child care. The family believes that husbands and wives have their own priorities in regards to family.…
I completed my infant observation at the University Child Development Center. The University Child Development Center specializes in childcare for infants all the way up to children age 12. The infant I observed was about eight months of age and was placed in a classroom that usually has a relatively small number of infants for better one on one attention. As I completed my observation, I observed all five developmental domains which include physical, emotional and social, cognitive, adaptive, and language and communication.…
For my observation paper I visited Hilltop Child Development Center and spent an hour in a preschool classroom. The children were having free time when I arrived. Some were flipping through picture books, others were doing crafts, and one particular boy, was playing with dinosaurs. This boy’s name was Ben and I decided to focus my attention on him. Throughout this hour I took note on his level of social, emotional, and physical development in order to determine his chronological age.…
The kids were sitting down having a snack, while others kids were being picked up. I asked the teachers if they were able to leave after all the children were done and they said they were there till 4pm. The teachers are not allowed to clean and sanitize the classroom until all of the children have left. Then they had to stay and do paper work. I didn’t realize how much work being a Pre-School teacher was.…