My entire time observing was an overall nice experience.
I enjoyed seeing D.A.P being practice in a childcare program. Even though I did experience days when the time could of been used in a more productive way, I also seen days when the time was spent so productive I almost stayed overtime. What I can take from this experience is seeing the many ways that you can dissect an activity to making it last for weeks.
This weeks observation was useless. My child that I'm doing my DRDP's on was absent. So even though I still wrote notes, what good are they. There were two boys running around the classroom. One trying to catch the other. The staff grabbed one of the boys and said," If Kid1 is chasing you, you can walk your feet to an adult and tell them that you don't wont kid1 chasing you". She never walked to Kid1 and told him to stop running or chasing Kid2. I felt this would have been a perfect opportunity for the staff to use this time in building social skills/friendship between the two children with one being aggressive and the other being the more timid scared one. I would have allowed the children to talk it out and develop dialect amongst each other.
Other than that the day was cool and long due to my absent child. :(
Hi Terri,
ReplyDeleteIt is an absolute delight to see schools and teacher practicing DAP. It think that it encourages students and future educators because you get an opportunity to see the growth and development of children. I hope that you were able in the previous weeks to obtain enough information on your student.
Hello Terri:
ReplyDeleteDAP is a marvelous thing for sure, and it takes lots of practice and patience on the part of the teacher to "get it right," which I'm working toward.
My DRDP assessment was a bomb too! :o My student was late the first day and the next day she showed up really late, like 10 minutes BEFORE class was dismissed. Oh well, I pieced together enough data to do an OK job I think, as you most likely did as well.
Hi Terri!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bummer! I bet you drove to the center crossing your fingers and hoping the child would show up. I know I did that every week since I knew I had to base my observation on a certain child.
Just like the comments before... I love that teachers use DAP. Honestly, I thought that the school I work with was great, sad to say, many of the teachers there do not use DAP. They expect the children to all finished at the same time and it does not work that way.