Visual Demonstration: A Narrative Analysis

I like the use of stuffed animals in your teaching of how vaccines work. I believe children learn best by visual demonstration. Demonstration allows a child to actively see how the vaccine works. Furthermore, the demonstrations may make the children eager to want to participate in return demonstrations of what he or she has learned. In doing so this will help them to build confidence and trust in the healthcare providers who administered these vaccines. “What children learn from others’ actions is not limited to specific observable movements; they also infer and reproduce the goals others strive to achieve and cognitive rules that guide others’ behaviors” (Wang, Williamson & Meltzoff, 2015, p. 2). This indicates that not only will children
learn how vaccines work from demonstration; they may also learn why vaccines are used.