Narrative observation
Narrative observation is also called free because you have to write everything in detailed that you see a child doing. As it’s going to help you to have clear focus of the observation so next time you can choose an appropriate activity for the child to observe for example if you want to find out about how well a child gets on with others, you need to observe the child in a activity with a group of children. When you do narrative observation you should observe the child for short time about 5-10 minutes. What learning was observe, what teaching was observed, why this was important, what the next steps in the learning and how those next steps might be supported. Practitioner can also choose to record any area of development or look at the child’s holistically and note down things of interest as they occur as this method is often used to provide a snapshot for parents as this method is probably one of the most straightforward observation.
Strength the good about narrative writing observation is that you can focus on all the areas on the child’s development and focuses on all behaviour not just one particular behaviour …show more content…
This method can be used when an individual child is the focus of interest or concern. Observations of a target child show a child's unique all areas of development at certain age and stage of development. The observation provides information about an individual's progress in each area of development the practitioner needs to be aware that the child may feel left out if the practitioner made too obvious. This can be avoided if the practitioner observes the child in a group but the observer has to focus on only one
Narrative observation is also called free because you have to write everything in detailed that you see a child doing. As it’s going to help you to have clear focus of the observation so next time you can choose an appropriate activity for the child to observe for example if you want to find out about how well a child gets on with others, you need to observe the child in a activity with a group of children. When you do narrative observation you should observe the child for short time about 5-10 minutes. What learning was observe, what teaching was observed, why this was important, what the next steps in the learning and how those next steps might be supported. Practitioner can also choose to record any area of development or look at the child’s holistically and note down things of interest as they occur as this method is often used to provide a snapshot for parents as this method is probably one of the most straightforward observation.
Strength the good about narrative writing observation is that you can focus on all the areas on the child’s development and focuses on all behaviour not just one particular behaviour …show more content…
This method can be used when an individual child is the focus of interest or concern. Observations of a target child show a child's unique all areas of development at certain age and stage of development. The observation provides information about an individual's progress in each area of development the practitioner needs to be aware that the child may feel left out if the practitioner made too obvious. This can be avoided if the practitioner observes the child in a group but the observer has to focus on only one