Childhood Observation

Preschool years are one of the important things in the child’s life. Children learn a lot through these years. Also, children play a lot and this allows them to build more schemas in the brain. A suitable environment should be provided to the children in order to perceive properly and learn clearly. The purpose of this assignment is to develop the educator’s critical thinking skills in order to maximize the children’s potential. The observation took place in the day care of children in Grossmont College. Wednesday the 25 of April, 2012. The children observed were 3 years of age. Jacob, Jason, kyle, Jordan and Jessica and few others. They were little and cute. All of them were wearing pant and colorful t-shirt. There were 3 care givers adults
And according to Piaget, learning is a dynamic system and an active process. He also noted that children in this stage do not yet understand concrete logic, cannot mentally manipulate information, and are unable to take the point of view of other people. Children here play roles and acts like if they are one of these roles such as mommy, daddy, doctor, and teacher and so on. According to Jean Piaget the pre-operational stage is the second of his characteristics. The characteristics are centeration which here the child focus on one aspect and disgarde the rest because he sees the parents as the parents only and the teacher as the teacher only and it can’t be anything else. Egocentrism is also a characteristic which means that the child perceives people from his or her own perspective but it does not mean selfishness (Berger P.274).children focus on appearance which means that they don’t distinguish between reality and fantasy and it also make the child as an easy target to fool. Static reasoning is one that makes the child don’t see possibilities and make the child thinks that is the end of the world if something happened to him or her. Irreversibility is one of the characteristic that means the inability to reverse a process to its origins and it leads to problems of conservation (Sonia. power point) .The same example that I mentioned above about Jessica holding the baby doll is one of the roles that she played pretending that she is the mom and the baby is her child. Also, Jorden got a bicycle as soon as they got out to the yard to play and he pretended to be a motor cycle driver. He put his legs on the pads and his hands on the wheel and started to move his legs in order for his body to move with the cycle. Another example of that is that the child was playing with the cubs as I mentioned earlier, building the high tower and try to make it pretty by adjusting the pieces. We all know that the child always