REFLECTIVE PRACTICE GUIDANCE LOGS

DATE: Monday March 5th 2012 Guidance Strategy Used: Direct Guidance, redirect guidance, and positive verbal guidance

OBSERVATION(Observe, identify the problem, examine the context of the problem)

On Monday March 5th 2012 a child named Pauline who was 17 months old was climbing on a blue chair. I felt as if maybe the child was climbing a chair because she wanted

attention.Couple weeks before I noticed that Pauline would follow her peer because Pauline would see her peer standing on the chair and then Pauline would follow her peer onto the chair

and they would both stand on it.

DECISION(Choose a guidance strategy from this course that fits with the problem. Clearly state

why the chosen strategy is appropriate for this child/situation)I did physical guidance by physically removing the child to an appropriate area. At first I

tried redirecting the child by talking about a doll and asking her if she wanted to play baby, she played with the baby for five minutes and then returned back to climbing the

blue chair.

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ACTIONS(Clearly discuss your actions, the child’s response and the results of the guidance

strategy)

When I tried to redirect the child at first before physically removing her, my redirecting strategy did not work because when I tried to engage the child in playing with the dolls

she took to the idea for five minutes and then went back to climbing the blue chair. After I tried positive verbal guidance by telling the child that she will fall and hurt herself, if she climbed the blue chair so I asked her nicely to get down from the blue chair please. When

I asked nicely to get down the child just shook her head and said“No”. The child actually did fall and hit her forehead on the book shelf beside the blue

chair. So after I had to physically remove the child she did not like it, she just screamed and ran back to the chair. After trying it was snack time and the ECE called the child for a

snack and snack time redirected the child away from the chair.

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Reflect(Specify what went well. Are there some things that you need to change? Why?

STRENGTHS

The strategies I used were direct and redirecting guidance both of which did not work well. The redirecting worked for a short while and then the child returned to climbing the blue chair. After I tried making changes and transition from direct guidance to redirect guidance by telling the child that if she doesn’t stop climbing she can fall and hurt herself which didn’t work either. What I did notice is that when I had physically removed the child, she ran back to the couch and got a bit upset leading her to throw herself on the ground then got back up and went to the chair and laughed while l looked at her. The child was expressing a feisty temperament: The child stubbornly resisted change when I wanted to her to stop climbing the couch.

NEEDS

Next time I would look at what the child needs which is that the child wanted attention. Instead of trying to redirect the child I could physically engaged myself into playing with the child for example I could have put music on to dance with the child and engage her that way.

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Changes

A change I would make is to handle the situation a little different by redirecting the child a little more by engaging the child in a play a little longer. Because I redirected the child before with the doll but then I had left her to play with the doll, instead of doing so next time I would sit with the child and keep her interested in the play.-It was close to lunch time so for next time I would give the child a choice on if she wants to sit and have lunch or play instead of climbing a chair.

Dear Supervising Teacher: Please read and review each guidance log. For each log, please select the appropriate box below.

O This log is based on your observations of the student’s actual in practice.O This log is somewhat accurate.O This log is not accurate. Please explain:________________________________

Agency Name: _______________________________________Agency Phone number: ________________________________ECE name and signature: _______________________________ Date: __________

Thank you.

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