Observations
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Overall schedule
I was an observer to Shivani's class on 21st Sept. Did not attend the "morning assembly", but went straight to the class.
First was sandplay, followed by giving animals for a bath.. Materials sand, water, blocks and animals
Childrens interaction with material and activity
Some children were attarcetd to the blocks and started palying with it, some did not want to touch sand and some did not want to touch water. Some of them were very interested in the animals and others in the blocks. Lot of display material, but children seemed to be familiar.
Childrens interaction with peers
Some of the children were looking for feedback from peers taking their "creation" around and showing, but not ready to give it up. One of the children picked up some sand from the boy near him to see/check if it was OK.. Facilitator was almost a peer. Some children were visibly aggressive and again, some had their own "friends"
Don't touch the sand, lets clean up etc
Again one chld wanted to quickly move to animcal play..
Interaction with faculty
Facilitator was almost a peer, yet there was this threshold. Number of them were looking for positive vibes from the facilirtator and when she said xyz is looking fresh ( at the end of clas, child had changed since dress was wet), everyone wanted to change!!
Interact with themselves
Not sure, will need to observe more
Reaction to communication..
A lot of the communication was by way of encouraging the one whose behaviour the facilitator wanted to encourage and that helped the rest slowly get into the same framework. Also statements non-judgemental like "we don't do this" and "we talk of ourselves" were part of refrain. Children reacted positively. The only bit was when there was a fight. Facilitator did not say one word, but the child responded to the non verballl
Building rapport
A lot of specific communication like this is the plan for the day,, we will be doing this after this, can you wait etc. And commenting on their food, specific comment on the work done and process questions
Behaviour exhibited, intentions visible and intentions addressed
Words of appreciation on +ve behaviour, specifc comments like I don't like that etc.. helped. Thanks for helping etc helped..
What I learnt about children
It looked quite simple, there must have been so much for thought into it. Also each child comes with a different frame of mind to school
Mina
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