REFLECTIVE PRACTICE GUIDANCE LOGS

DATE: Monday April 2nd 2012 Guidance Strategy Used: Direct Guidance, redirect guidance.

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

On Monday April 2nd 2012 there was a boy named Paul who was and girl named Alexandra who was were playing on the alphabet carpet. Alexandra was playing with a shaker and Paul was chewing on a string from a musical toy caterpillar. Paul heard the sound of Alexandra toy so he turned around and tried to crawl over, he then looked at Alexandra and babbled with her. Alexandra reached over to Paul face and grabbed his

cheeks then tried grabbing his hair. Paul then did the same he reached to over to Alexandra hair and grabbed it. I was sitting there with the two children so I had to make a

decision to resolve this conflict.

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)The guidance strategy I used was direct guidance by saying to the children “gentle

touching” and that did not work so I physically removed Paul from beside me where he could reach Alexandra and I placed him in front of me by my lower legs. The reason I used

this guidance strategy is because of the age of the infants if I say “gentle touching to them they will stop and look at me but then after they will continue to pull on one

another.

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

strategy)

The direct guidance strategy that I used was I had to physically reach over to my left and move Paul to the bottom in between my legs where he could sit so he could not reach

Alexandra. I gave Paul back the musical toy he was playing with before and that was used as a redirecting strategy. After Alexandra wanted the toy as well because she heard the toy so I got a rattle and shook it then sung a song to Alexandra and moved my legs up

and down with Alexandra on it, that again was used as redirecting and Alexandra seemed to enjoy this play.

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

STRENGTHS

The strategies that I used which was direct and redirect guidance had worked but when I had redirected Paul with the same musical toy he had before. He then crawled over and

tried to pull on Alexandra hair but the redirecting it had worked for Paul as he was interested in his toy again but then Alexandra had gotten interested in the same toy and

had stopped playing with the shaker she had.

NEEDS

Next time I would pay more attention to what Paul wanted for example Paul wanted the same shaker that Alexandra had and because he couldn’t get it they both started to grab

each other and pull each other hair. I would substitute and give Paul a shaker like Alexandra and try that first rather than physically removing him.

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Changes

A change I would make to my guidance strategies would be instead of physically removing Paul I would have tried to redirect him where he was sitting and not move him. The way I would go about doing that would be singing to both him and Alexandra in the same place and involve them with a book or shaking rattles.

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

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Thank you.

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