UMH (0627) 602 - Using Observation with Young Children-Practica Seminar

Credits: 3.00

Students will learn to address both the objective aspects of observing and interacting with young children and their caregivers as well as the subjective experience of caring for very young children. Students will observe an assigned child at the ELC 10 hours per week.

Free Note: Required for students in IMH-DP program.

1.Develop core observation and recording skills

2.Develop expertise to respond to the unique communications of young children, who are much less able to use verbal language to express their needs

3.Consider the behaviors and in interactions observed through a multicultural lens

4.Make accurate meaning of what is observed through understanding the child in the context of their caregiving environments

5.Develop skills to of interacting with young children, their parents, and teachers in a positive way from a strengths’ perspective

6.Administer, score, and interpret selected relational and social-emotional assessment instruments (i.e., Crowell, Still-Face Procedure).