Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults
1. Know how to interact with and respond to children and young people
(1.1) Describe how to establish respectful, professional relationships with children and young people
(1.2) Describe with examples how to behave appropriately for a child or young person’s stage of development
To establish respectful and professional relationships with children and young people, there are many procedures to achieve this. The way to do this would be by the way an adult interacts with a child. A learner must behave appropriately considering the situation at hand. An adult must always be there to encourage and motivate a child so they feel good about themselves and feel what they are doing is important. However, it is not ideal to allow children to do what they want to do when it’s not the correct thing to do.
Children need to understand what they do wrong and to acknowledge the correct choice to make. It is the adult’s responsibility to ensure they know that they have done something wrong but the child should be given a choice.
For example, “a child is not listening and is too busy talking and they are unwilling to do their work, in this case they should receive a choice by asking them “do you want to miss playtime or do you want to finish your work before that?”
By this way, the child has acknowledged the choice and would make up their mind about finishing their work so they don’t actually miss their playtime. The child is satisfied by this as this method is quite efficient and they don’t get upset with the adult as they are given a fair choice. This builds up the relationship between an adult and a child as the child is now beginning to listen to instructions without holding any grudges.
However, it is equally important on how an adult interacts with the child. An adult must give the child respect and be friendly by using their name when they call them, a child doesn’t like it when the teacher doesn’t even know their name. When a learner
(1.1) Describe how to establish respectful, professional relationships with children and young people
(1.2) Describe with examples how to behave appropriately for a child or young person’s stage of development
To establish respectful and professional relationships with children and young people, there are many procedures to achieve this. The way to do this would be by the way an adult interacts with a child. A learner must behave appropriately considering the situation at hand. An adult must always be there to encourage and motivate a child so they feel good about themselves and feel what they are doing is important. However, it is not ideal to allow children to do what they want to do when it’s not the correct thing to do.
Children need to understand what they do wrong and to acknowledge the correct choice to make. It is the adult’s responsibility to ensure they know that they have done something wrong but the child should be given a choice.
For example, “a child is not listening and is too busy talking and they are unwilling to do their work, in this case they should receive a choice by asking them “do you want to miss playtime or do you want to finish your work before that?”
By this way, the child has acknowledged the choice and would make up their mind about finishing their work so they don’t actually miss their playtime. The child is satisfied by this as this method is quite efficient and they don’t get upset with the adult as they are given a fair choice. This builds up the relationship between an adult and a child as the child is now beginning to listen to instructions without holding any grudges.
However, it is equally important on how an adult interacts with the child. An adult must give the child respect and be friendly by using their name when they call them, a child doesn’t like it when the teacher doesn’t even know their name. When a learner