Reasons for Observing
Techniques of Observation
Developmental
Domains
Advantages and Disadvantages
Key Terms
100
This is the most important reason for observing children.
What is safety?
100
These two techniques use the same form.
What are anecdotal recordings and running records?
100
Two types of physical development that measure muscle development.
What are gross and fine motor skills?
100
Gives specific information on the whole class.
What is a class list log?
100
Change that takes place in a predictable sequence from simple to complex.
What is development?
200
A teacher can adapt her teaching styles by observing a child's __________ and __________.
What are interests and learning styles?
200
Class list log, checklists, frequency counts, time samples and rating scales are examples of __________ __________.
What is is a closed method?
200
Fear, rage and love
What are the three core emotions of all humans?
200
Gives separate judgements or inferences from details of the incident.
What is an anecdotal recording or running record?
200
Unoccupied, Onlooker, Solitary, Parallel, Associative, Cooperative
What are types of play?
300
The processof gathering information to document a child's skills and development.
What is assessment?
300
A technique that enables a teacher to learn interests of the child and identify speech patterns.
What is conversation or interview?
300
When you have associated and assimilated new knowledge and added it to old information you have achieved ____________.
What is accommodation?
300
Intense writing is necessary to capture all the details, quotes and movements of the event.
What is a disadvantage of ancedotal recordings?
300
Knowledge of what one is able to do and how one values oneself based on that knowledge.
What are self-concept and self-esteem?
400
Observing a child helps the teacher know she should give _________ and __________.
What are assistance and guidance?
400
A method that preserves a child's work as documentation of development.
What are work samples?
400
Self, Self-Gratification, Self-Assertion and Self-Initiator
What are the stages of social development?
400
An advantage is using quick tally marks to record results in this technique.
What is frequency count?
400
A systematic collection of documentation about the child's development.
What is a portfolio?
500
Making connections between old and new information and planning related experiences and activities.
What is curriculum planning?
500
A technique that identifies the presence or abscense of a skill.
What is a checklist?
500
Changes in our bodies can be quanitative, change in size, or qualitative, occurring in predictable stages.
What are growth and development?
500
An attentive listener is an advantage when using this technique.
What is conversation/interview?
500
Cognitive conflict when new information does not match with old information.
What is disequilibrium?
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