Observation Assignment

Observation Assignment

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          There are various domains of human development, and these domains are all interrelated. A child passes through various stages of development to optimize a naturalistic insight and reach a particular age. A school set up is created in a manner that a teacher and other interested parties can observe the growth and development of learners (De Onis, 2017). During the school years, a child’s physical development along with emotional, cognitive, and social, is observed. The children of Primary school between 5 years to 11 years are observed in this assignment. They were assessed within a period of five weeks at different times of the day.

Subject Area

The subject areas for the observation of the children consisted of Storytelling, Arts, Physical Education, Mathematics and Science.

Physical Development

The questions that came up based on the observation of children are:

How does physical growth of a child affect its cognitive development and create reflective thinking?

To what extent does physical development affect the emotional growth of a child?

How does physical growth influence a child’s social development?

How are the developmental domains of a child interrelated?

Cognitive Development

A child learns decision-making and quick thinking in his cognitive development. This intellectual growth is as important as the physical growth of a child. The children were able to solve the word problems in mathematics, puzzles, and crosswords that indicates their cognitive development. It was also observed during physical education while making teams and choosing the players.

Emotional Development

It refers to a child's ability to cope with anxiety and stress and soothe itself. A child is unable to focus on his academic achievement if he is not emotionally fine. While story-telling, children were really involved in the story, and their moods were being changed according to the twists in the story. Some of them displayed emotional outburst while playing or solving mathematics. If a child was unable to answer during English, he showed feelings of anxiety and tension.

Social Development

A child’s ability to learn how to interact in a society is called social development. The healthy social interaction in school contributes much to the social development of a child. This development was seen in all the subject areas observed. Physical development requires children to participate in several activities, which helps them develop socially. For example, they were able to learn teamwork during physical education. During the mathematics and English, they were divided into groups which contributed to their learning.

References

De Onis, M. (2017). Child growth and development. In Nutrition and Health in a Developing World (pp. 119-141). Humana Press, Cham.