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. :(
