Observation And Documentation In Early Childhood Education

There are quite a few reasons for why I am taking this course. The first reasoning, and probably the most important to me, is to learn more about documentation. From previous child development classes, my professors have touched on this topic but never went more thoroughly into that topic. In this course, it looks like a majority of it revolves around observations and documentation. In the syllabus, the course description mentioned learning different strategies when doing observations and documentations. This is very significant to me since my current stagey is to write down everything I see as fast as I can. Sometimes this gets a little stressful since I do not want to miss anything; so my hope for this class is that I will learn better approaches to help me do better observations and write better documentations. …show more content…
Observations are a very important part of being a teacher, since in the long run, it can ultimately help create goals for certain children and get them help for whatever is they need. The only way to tell whether or not a child needs help, whether is be academically, emotionally or socially, is to observe how they act in these situations. This is why observations are a very important part of becoming a teacher. Being able to document your observations is also an important part of teaching. The main reason for documenting is to gather information about a child, such as attitude, learning ability or social skills. These documents then can be shared with other teachers or family to help the child succeed at whatever they