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2 We consciously and unconsciously tend to make a close observation to our environment on a day-to-day basis as well as the people that surround us. Early childhood educators are constantly observing children’s play both inside and out of the classroom. Observations helps in understanding the needs, interests, knowledge and the skills in children. They also help to understand the way children learn and also areas that need focus to be added to the curriculum. Observing children’s play will therefore help an educator to understand how they can be able to drive their teaching curriculum and the classroom routine (Chazan, 2009). It additionally helps in understanding the child’s interest and how they are learning currently. This way, you can be able to know how well to respond to their transitions. The teacher or parent will then know to best they can provide support to the children’s development and learning. There are several ways that these observations can be done. These include anecdotal. These are the factual accounts that take place. They include information on what, when and where. It also includes some other non-verbal cues such as reactions, body language such as the facial expressions that should be included in the event. The second way are the running records noting down what you see and also what the child says is going on. There is also includes jottings whereby brief sentences are jotted down and include the important events, observations and behaviors that take place (Bulgarelli & Bianquin, 2017). The type of observation that I prefer using are the jottings. This is because they mark the most important events as well as the behaviors that children undertake during these events. This way, one can be able to note a little bit more of the activities that the child takes part in. In observing children’s play, I observed parallel play at minute 1:59 in the video, “observing Young Children.” In the video, we can see the children playing together in a set of about five children. They are all playing the same game but are not entirely interacting with each

3 other. They share the toys but do not play together. To help foster play, I can use several techniques. First, I would praise the children’s play. This would encourage them to keep playing. Secondly, for younger children, I would offer open-ended play as the simple kinds of toys gives the children the ability to have higher creativity. I would also ensure I limit screen time. This will encourage the children to play other than spend their day watching the TV or using phones and tablets.

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4 References Bulgarelli, D., & Bianquin, N. (2017). 3 Conceptual Review of Play. Play development in children with disabilities , 58-70. Chazan, S. E. (2009). Observing play activity: The children’s developmental play instrument (CDPI) with reliability studies. Child Indicators Research , 2 (4), 417-436.

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