Acaydia School of Aesthetics Social Development History Theory and Research Response

Please respond to britnee with 250 words

A Running Record is similar to an Anecdotal recording. The running record is you writing down exactly what happened in that moment and giving the place and time as well. It is written over a span of time unlike the anecdotal recording. You always want to make sure to include the child’s name and age as well. This is a common way for taking notes for the classroom.

Social development has to do with everything about the child. There are different theories about social development that we use in a combination to teach today. There is Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Skinner and Watson, Maslow, Vygotsky, and Kohlberg. They all have different ideas of ways of social development like Erikson’s Stages of development. They are all correct and extremely helpful when it comes to a child.

Play is extremely important. It is a way for the teacher to be able to observe the child and see how they are doing. Play helps enhance the development of the child. They can learn so much from playing with each other and using the tools of the classroom. “The word development indicates that the change that takes place in the way a child interacts with other people is qualitative.” (Nilsen, 2017, pg. 125)

To observe social development in play you would use the different types of tools that we have been talking about. These include anecdotal recording and running records and checklists. These are all effective ways to be able to take notes of the children so you can keep track of their stages of development. These are used when watching the children so you can take notes and make sure that you have everything you need to make sure the child is on the right track. Overall, these are very helpful. And of course every child deserves to have these contributions towards them because every child is worth the work and effort from a teacher.

Running Record:

3:37pm at Anthony’s home in the living room.

Child’s name: Anthony Recorder’s Name: Brittnee

Anthony is sitting on the living room floor with toys and his brother. “ We need some tape because this guy is going to hang from the wall upside down mom” mom says “okay go get some tape” Anthony says “OKAY ILL GO GET TAPE” Jeremiah starts stabbing the tile floor with a fork. Anthony is getting a piece of tape from his mom and says “come on mom you got this” Jeremiah then wants a piece of tape and says “tape” Anthony says “look mom I’m building a convection go on your phone and record a YouTube video” mom says “oh yeah I see you are making an invention” Jeremiah says “more tape please mama please” Anthony “I have more tape right here for my convention you can have some” Anthony is building his invention with a nerf gun and a toy action figure. Jeremiah says “can’t see” and runs to turn on the light switch and Anthony gets up and turns on the other light switch as well. Anthony says to his mom “I need this convection to protect us and the baby in your belly from an emergency and it will save us!” mom says “ oh okay that’s a good explanation for your invention” Anthony says “I like making YouTube videos mom can you record me making my convention” mom says “not right now I’m talking to your dad about dinner tonight” Jeremiah falls on the floor and says “ow fall” mom asks “are you okay? How did you fall” Jeremiah says “fall fork” and gets up and starts running into the kitchen.

I believe I did a pretty good job with my running record. It was a little difficult trying to write everything down because they were so excited to be building an invention. I did explain where they were at and at what time I took this running record and I put the child’s name and my own name. I tried to describe as best as I could what Anthony was doing and focus more on him rather than Jeremiah. Overall I tried my best to capture the moment they were making an invention.