Why is it important to have a policy protecting children? This is a statement of intent that demonstrates a commitment to safeguard children involved with a charity from harm. The essential inclusions for a child protection policy are outlined below: the welfare of the child is paramount; all children without exception have the right to protection from abuse regardless of gender‚ ethnicity‚ disability‚ sexuality or beliefs; the policy is approved and endorsed by the board of trustees; who
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Alexis Christakos ED 7101 Child Development Fall 2011 Observation #1 Name of Child: Leah Age: 3 years 4 months Area of Development: Physical (Fine/Gross Motor Skills) Date: Monday‚ October 3‚ 2011 Time: 1PM Context: For my project my will observe my friends child Leah‚ Leah is three years old and four months. I went to her home to observe her. Leah lives at home with her mom‚ dad and two older sisters. Her sisters are nine and six years old. When I arrived at the house Leah was sitting
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TMA 01 ED209 CHILD DEVELOPMENT Research of evidence‚ which describes the development of infants’ sensory abilities and how research has generated this knowledge. This assay will describe the development of infant’s senses of their 18 months of life and will define how this knowledge has generated. The development of the sensory and the nervous system is not whole at birth and will continue to mature until the adolescence. As babies cannot express themselves with words it has to
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OLE OF PRIMARY TEACHER The Teacher is like an oil lamp if its flame is steady and bright a hundred lamps can be lit by it‚ without in any way diminishing its brightness. For ensuring the brightness of the lamp‚ it is necessary that the wick be in good order and the oil supply be sufficient." Certainly the role of the teacher cannot be written in mere words. So far from my observation as a learner‚ I have begun to understand that there are many roles and responsibilities that come with
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teaching the primary cause of learning taking place is not the act of teaching‚ or the activity of the teacher. Learning takes place due to the natural ability of the human mind to learn and grow. The teacher’s role is to simply act as a cooperative artist in this production of learning. Maria Montessori thus used the title “directress” to explain the role of the teacher in a Montessori. The teacher is not the primary cause of learning she is rather a facilitator and a guide. They do not simply transfer
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2004). A predicament of whether nature or nurture plays a larger role in child development has been an ongoing debate within psychology referred to as Nature vs. Nurture. Nature is what is inherited with conception‚ your genetics‚ and nurture is referred as your environmental influences. Since studies of Nature vs. Nurture have taken place over time‚ generally all have come to agree that nature and nurture do have coexisting roles
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The Montessori teacher plays a radically different role from more well-known roles in relation to children such as parent‚ babysitter‚ friend‚ primary grades teacher or traditional pre-school teacher. The vision we all have of a teacher‚ standing before the blackboard and giving a good lesson to the whole class‚ is very seldom a part of what Montessori teachers do. This is because the founder of this new challenging educational system for young children below six years old‚ Dr. Maria Montessori believed
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3. Physical development page 3 3.1 Physical development during early adulthood page 3 3.2 Physical development during middle adulthood page 3 3.3 Physical development during late adulthood page 5 4. Cognitive development page 7 4.1 Crystallised and fluid intelligence page 7 4.2 Cognitive development during early adulthood page 8 4.3 Cognitive development during middle adulthood page 10 4.4 Cognitive development during late adulthood page 11 5. The influence of physical and cognitive
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How can a parent set up his/her child for success and the best future? This can be achieved by guiding your children down the right path. This right path can be obtained by surrounding your children with nurture. The environment around a child obviously plays a huge role in the development of that child. It is not uncommon to see a fluctuation of behavior and personality depending on the state of the environment the child is located in. Across the globe‚ as far as the UK‚ this can be seen‚ this
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have at least one child under four years old‚ and you or your family are receiving: • Income Support • Or income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance • Or Child Tax Credit and the family has an income below a certain limit • If you are pregnant and are under 18 years old If you are accepted on to the scheme you get vouchers sent to you in the post every four weeks. Each voucher is worth £3.10 (at April 2011). If you are pregnant then you get one voucher for each week. Each child aged 1-4 years gets
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