Explain the skills needed to communicate with children and young people. To communicate effectively with children you need to be aware of their level of development and an understanding of cognitive and language ability. For example if a 4 year old was drawing at a table and wanted your help‚ you would need to sit and kneel beside her and make eye contact. To show an interest in what they were saying you would listen and restate what they had said to show that you understand. Whatever the age
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Children need to feel they are a valuable member of their school community. It is important for children to learn in a safe and secure environment. The school community is made up of children of all ages‚ from different cultures and have different abilities. As a member of the school staff team you have to be able to relate to all the children and develop positive relationships with them‚ to do this you need to adapt your communication style and behaviour accordingly. The age of the child or young
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teacher/HLTA and the children and young people is an essential part of the learning cycle in the school. The building of these relationships will have a direct impact on their behaviour but also on their achievements. Within the classroom‚ bad behaviour can occur for a number of reasons. These can be: lack of interest‚ activities not set at the right level of challenge‚ disruptive children‚ etc. The teacher/HLTA must plan the lesson effectively so that it engages the children and young people in class. You
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Unit 7: Support Children and Young people’s Health and Safety. All schools in the UK have a health and safety policy‚ in which they have to adhere to requirements. There are many current health and safety legislations‚ policies and procedures. These include the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which was created to protect those at work by following procedures in order to prevent accidents. In a school setting‚ it is compulsory to follow the rules of this act. Schools must have an annual
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“What does psychological research tell us about ‘egocentrism’ in young children?” “Egocentrism is the tendency of children to cognize their environment only in terms of their own point of view” (Castillo‚ R.J‚ 1954). This technical meaning for the term was given by Jean Piaget who suggests that it is a state of mind where the child attempts to understand the world from their own point of view and fails to realise that other people’s points of view are different from theirs. Egocentrism is the unawareness
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Contribute to the support of children and young people’s development through play. In this assignment I plan to explain how play helps to improve the development of children and young people. Play is extremely important for the development of children. It is important that from a young age children play with things like toys and even with other children. Between the ages of 0 – 3 is when children develop the most. Through play children can improve their fine and gross motor skills by using toys
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Communication and professional relationships with children‚ young people and adults 1.3 When communicating with others it is important to consider the context in which you are working. You will need to adapt the way you communicate in different situations. It is likely that you will do this automatically without even realising you are doing it – for example‚ you should use more formal language and behaviour whilst in a meeting or discussing matters with a senior member of staff. Your school
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C U 1 5 1 2 Contribute to children and young people’s Health and Safety 1.1 Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of your work setting. My work setting follows the laws and standards set by the Health and Safety Act 1974:- * Ensure that the environment is safe‚ secure with high quality of hygiene practices for staff‚ children and their families and any member of the public while using the premises. * Impose a total ban of smoking in the nursery indoor/ outdoor
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SITXHRM402 Lead and manage people ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITIES Assignment activity 1 I used to work at a fine dinning restaurant‚ the restaurant manager there was very good. He has very strong knowledge about how to manage people. He never being aggressive or uses any inappropriate language. He never asks someone to do the job that he doesn’t know how to do. He shows people how to get the job done efficiently. No matter what kind of issues or problems that staff have‚ he always is willing to help. He
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eventually mastered. Why then do we expect children to be able to communicate with us correctly all of the time? Working with children requires us to build positive relationships with them quickly‚ but also in ways that are professional. The quality of the relationships that we have with children and young people has a huge effect on the way in which we can work with them. Positive relationships with children and young people are important as when children feel comfortable they can separate more
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