Principle 1 : Involv infants and toddlers in things that concern them
Principle 2: Invest in quality time
Principle 3 : Learn each child’s unique ways of communicating and teach yours Principle 8: Recognizing problems as learning opportunities, and let infants and toddlers try to solve their own
Principle 10: Be concerned about the quality of development in each stage
These above principles are all telling how important the caregivers spend quality time with infants and toddlers by watching and adapting them.
Principle 5: Respect infants and toddlers as worthy …show more content…
It is different from the beginning and the end of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I did know about how the routines are important for infants and toddlers. I also didn’t know about two types of quality time: wants something and wants-nothing. I also learned the floor time is important for the infants and toddlers. Daily routines feeding, sleeping, diapering can be a quality time.
Principle 8: Recognizing problems as learning opportunities, and let infants and toddlers try to solve their own will be challenging because I have never done scaffolding in proper way. I need to observe and know the child’s ability well to scaffold. It was different from the beginning of semester because I thought scaffold was little help but it has more meaning for children. It helps their satisfaction, but do not rescue them, let them struggle first.
Principle 7: model the behavior you want to teach is different from other principles. This principle is the hardest for me. I reflect my mistakes when I over react unexpected things happen. I need to be calm down. I knew that the children are similar to the monkeys who do what they see, so I have to take responsible to my action. However, It is easy to say than do it . I need to train myself to become habits to stay