The setting that I chose to focus on for this week was in the Kidz Klub Classroom at my school. I observed for 45 minutes before school started. The children in the Kidz Klub Classroom ranged in age from 3-years old to 12-years old. I only focused on the communication between the workers and the children ranging in age from 3 to five years of age.
The one thing that I noticed are that these children ask the adults a lot of questions and like to have someone playing with them constantly. These children actually played with life-like toys and acted as if they were a doctor, cook and a teacher. The adults acted as the children and the young children acted as adults. They were having so much fun!
The one thing that could have been done to make the communication more effective is if the younger children played more with the older children. There seemed to be different groups in the classroom. This means that the children around the same age played with certain toys and they did not communicate with the older children and the older children did not communicate with the younger children. The younger children could learn a lot more from the older children than what they will learn from the adults and vice versa.
The communication interactions could have lowered the young children's self-esteem. The one time that the young student went to talk to the older student, they pushed the little one away. The adults should be the ones to encourage all of the children, at all ages, to communicate with others.
One thing that I have learned about myself is that I want to make sure that I allow and encourage the older students to help, communicate and play with the younger children. Doing this will allow for me or the teacher to sit back and observe more communication with all of the children.
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