Cognitive Observation
Method & Media Used: Narrative, Pen and paper
Time: Started 1.00pm Finished 1.10pm
Number of Children Present: 4
Number of Adults Present: 2(including myself)
Ages of children observed: 2:6 years
2:8 years
3 years
6.5 years
Aim & Rationale of observation:
My aim while carrying out this observation was to observe a group of children, specifically the 2nd youngest child, aged 2yrs 8 months and his cognitive response to an activity involving numeracy. The type of cognitive skill I was looking for is what cognitive developmental stage children need to be at to be able to conserve and my colleague used Piaget’s Conservation Test involving Numbers to determine this.
Background Information
I am using the narrative method for this cognitive observation.
The room in which I carried out this observation was a pre-school room. It is a bright, friendly room with lots of art work, made by the pre-school children on the walls. There are also some educational posters on the walls, a home corner and a reading/quiet time corner. There is a lot of Montessori educational material on the shelving units in the room. The 4 children with the group that I am observing are all attending the service on a full time basis, i.e. 8.30am – 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Child A, male, the 2nd youngest, on which I mainly based this observation, has an older sibling and a younger sibling. Child A lives at home with both parents and both siblings. Child A attends the crèche 5 days a week. His older sibling attends the afterschool club and his younger sibling is attending the baby room.
Observation:
There are 4 children sitting at a table. The teacher is setting up an activity for them, involving counters. This test/activity she is using is from Piaget’s Theory of Conservation.
Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability which, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget, becomes evident in children aged between 7years
Time: Started 1.00pm Finished 1.10pm
Number of Children Present: 4
Number of Adults Present: 2(including myself)
Ages of children observed: 2:6 years
2:8 years
3 years
6.5 years
Aim & Rationale of observation:
My aim while carrying out this observation was to observe a group of children, specifically the 2nd youngest child, aged 2yrs 8 months and his cognitive response to an activity involving numeracy. The type of cognitive skill I was looking for is what cognitive developmental stage children need to be at to be able to conserve and my colleague used Piaget’s Conservation Test involving Numbers to determine this.
Background Information
I am using the narrative method for this cognitive observation.
The room in which I carried out this observation was a pre-school room. It is a bright, friendly room with lots of art work, made by the pre-school children on the walls. There are also some educational posters on the walls, a home corner and a reading/quiet time corner. There is a lot of Montessori educational material on the shelving units in the room. The 4 children with the group that I am observing are all attending the service on a full time basis, i.e. 8.30am – 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Child A, male, the 2nd youngest, on which I mainly based this observation, has an older sibling and a younger sibling. Child A lives at home with both parents and both siblings. Child A attends the crèche 5 days a week. His older sibling attends the afterschool club and his younger sibling is attending the baby room.
Observation:
There are 4 children sitting at a table. The teacher is setting up an activity for them, involving counters. This test/activity she is using is from Piaget’s Theory of Conservation.
Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability which, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget, becomes evident in children aged between 7years