Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood

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CE300: Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood

Practice with Observation as an Assessment Method

 

Watch the video, “ Physical Development in Early Childhood ,” and choose one child to observe and document motor development.

URL:  http://media.pearsoncmg.com/pcp/pls_0558982484/index.html?wf=1&item=4

 

1. Which child did you choose to observe and document motor development?

 

2. Discuss and defend the observation method you used: anecdotal record, running record, time sampling, event sampling, checklist or rating scale?

 

3. What did you learn?

 

4. What other observation method could you have used?

 

5. What more do you need to know?

 

6. Explain the importance of direct observation to a coworker who is new in the early childhood field. Give specific examples of why it is important to conduct objective observations of young children.

The case study “Everyone Loves a Clown,

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Discussion Board Assignment $5.00

There are two case studies to view below to view

 

 

 

Artie is a preschool student in a typical classroom environment. According to the scenario described, Artie has a hard time paying attention and attending to his teacher’s verbal lessons (Cipani & Schock, 2011, p. 296). His inability to attend to presented lessons would suggest that Artie should be tested for an autism spectrum disorder. The DSM states that those with ASD have trouble communicating, following cues, and are focused on inappropriate items (APA, 2013). In Artie’s situation, it may seem that these symptoms fit him well. The child was not responding to verbal cues and was focused on a mark in the ceiling throughout the teacher’s lesson (Cipani & Schock, 2011, p. 296). In the text, Artie is a young child who is not attending to the information that is being taught during a small group instruction time at his preschool. His teacher is instructing the class on where to move with respect to a box. Some of the other children are able to understand from the verbal cueing while others learn where they should move based on their observation of peers. However, Artie is not attending to either cues and, as a result, he moves to an area other than what was instructed. There was another observation of a daily morning routine done in Artie class. Every morning, the students would sit in a semi-circle on the carpet and sing along to a song. Artie appears to struggle with learning the words to the song at first. The teacher naively believes that, after enough practice, he will be able to sing the whole song. However, after four years of practice, Artie is still only able to sing the first five words of the song. The text goes on to talk about how Artie in on the Autism Spectrum which explains why he does not attune to certain stimuli and why repeated exposure is not the solution for learning a concept (Cipani & Schock, 2011).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The case study “Everyone Loves a Clown,” focuses on Billy is a special education student in middle school who has been displaying inappropriate behavior towards his teachers.  His teacher reports that Billy’s classmates laugh in enjoyment to the negative behaviors displayed (Cipani & Schock, 2011). The teacher reports that other students want to hang out with Billy at lunch or recess as they believe he’s cool when displaying the negative behaviors (Cipani & Schock, 2011).  The teacher also reports that sending Billy to the office for disciplinary actions doesn’t tarnish the cool image the other students have of him (Cipani, Schock, 2011). In this case study, the teacher cannot make Billy responsible for the other’s behaviors but she can target him and find ways to make him behave appropriately as a means to improve his behavior as well as the class.  Cipani & Schock (2011), believe a group contingency involves setting a contingency in which the group accesses (or not) a group reward, contingent upon the behavior of the group performance. Therefore the teacher could do a group reward for the class to improve Billy and the class improvement and also an individual reward to Billy. Identifying the factors such as including Billy’s family and looking at his environment will be key to improving his behaviors. The family involvement will provide consistency in Billy’s behaviors at home and school and his family can enforce the teacher expectations to Billy each day.



Directions

Compare and contrast the case study of Artie (appendix B in the text) to a case study previously covered in class. Discuss intervention techniques you would use when dealing with the child’s or adolescent’s disorder.

 

 

Short Paper $10.00 Please go into detail concerning ethical issues, and make sure citations match references, apa format

 

9-2 Short Paper: Ethical Issues

Evaluate potential ethical issues that should be considered or guarded against when developing treatment interventions for children or adolescents. Describe steps that should be followed to ensure that potential ethical issues are addressed properly as treatment options are determined and applied.

Title Introduction To Ethics Phase 1 IP

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1300 EST
APA format
15 PowerPoint slides
Your manager tasks you with preparing a PowerPoint Presentation with a minimum of 15 slides (with presenters notes), not counting the cover page or reference page. In this presentation, you are to utilize the library, the Internet, and any other available resources to make sure that the following topics are discussed:
  • Discuss the importance of a chemical dependency counselor behaving ethically in interactions with clients. Consider the following:
    • Relationships
    • Obligations
    • Trust
    • Client welfare
    • Reputation
  • What state laws or regulations involving standards of conduct, transmission, and storage of private health records exist?
  • Professional codes of ethics contribute to maintaining ethical standards in a profession. Discuss professional codes in the counselor profession, such as the ACA code.
  • Are there any national or regional professional organizations that promote ethical behavior in chemical dependency counseling profession?
  • Describe the difference between behaving ethically and behaving legally, and give an example.
  • What is the most serious legal consequence of the counselor behaving unethically, and what are the long-term effects of this consequence.

The final slide in your presentation should be a reference page, detailing all of the resources you utilized in completing this presentation. Be sure to reference all of your sources in APA style format.

An Effective Training Evaluation Plan

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Assignment 2: An Effective Training Evaluation Plan

Instructions:

In the online lectures in Module 3 and your textbook readings (“Training and Development”, Leadership”, and “Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Job Involvement”) you learned about the importance of training your employees.  However, training is only effective when employees can retain the information and incorporate what they learn to improve their job performance.

You have just learned that your company is looking for ways to cut back expenses.  One of the cost cutting measures being considered is to terminate the training department, as the company considers this an expense and they do not believe training is contributing to the profitability of the company.  As the head of the training department it is your job to defend the value of the department.  You realize that well trained employees perform their jobs more efficiently and consequently can contribute to higher productivity and profits for the company. One way to show the value of training is to have tools that will allow a manager to track the performance of an employee both before and after they have received training.

    1. Report
      Write a report that will be shared with senior management on why training is a very important part of the company’s overall financial success.  Discuss the advantages of having well-trained employees.

 

  1. Evaluation Tool
    Using what you have learned about transfer training and the evaluation of training programs create an evaluation tool which can be used to evaluate how effective any given employee training program is in terms of:
    • Increasing the level of transfer of knowledge (knowledge retention)
    • Monitoring the effectiveness of the skill performance in the job performance improvement
    • Include common attributes in your evaluation tool which could be applicable to most employees at the organization such as: employees showing concern for saving the company money or consistently turning in error free work.  Your training tool should contain a minimum of 10 evaluation criteria.

Your training evaluation tool must be included with your report defending the value of the training department.  You know that your report will be shared with senior level managers and eventually to the board of directors.  However, you are uncertain whether or not you will be allowed to present your work at a later time or in a different manner.  Therefore it is important that your report is well written and professional.

Report Details
The report should be 5-7 pages in length and include:

  • Executive Summary highlighting all the factors in the scenario.
  • Justification of the importance of retaining the training department in the company and explanation of how the training department is important to the overall success of the company.
  • Training Evaluation Tool to evaluate knowledge retention and job performance improvement (10 criteria minimum).
  • Explanation of how the evaluation tool will be implemented.
  • Describe how the evaluation tool will help evaluate the level of transfer of knowledge and skill performance for current training programs as well as, monitor and improve planning for future training effectiveness.
  • Summary and conclusion of tool’s effectiveness.