VVC Child Development Professional Portfolio

Program Learning Outcome (PLO) Coversheet: PLO #3

PLO 3: Apply effective guidance and interaction strategies that support all childrens social learning,
identity and self-confidence.
Required Artifacts:
Guidance Scenarios (CHDV110)
Photo Journal for Social/Emotional Support Strategies (Created in CHDV 210)

Knowledge: for each of the above artifacts, please list (using bullets) the knowledge you gained pertaining to
this PLO.
Guidance Scenarios
o I know how to use appropriate language to guide and solve problems. I also have the knowledge
of helping children in difficult situations and solving these situations.
Photo Journal for Social/Emotional Support Strategies
o This assignment showed me how to differentiate between teacher-directed and child-directed
play. I learned how to ask children open-ended questions during their play.
Skills: for each of the above artifacts, please list (using bullets) the skills you gained pertaining to this PLO.
Guidance Scenarios
o I know how to use I messages, redirection, and what tools to use while the conflict is
happening. Also, knowing how to identify these tools and which work best with each child.
Photo Journal for Social/Emotional Support Strategies
o This assignment helped me understand that children can also problem solve without a teachers
help and children will ask for help when they need it.
Growth: Please list how your knowledge and skills listed above, have grown as a result of your student
teaching experiences.
Guidance Scenarios
o I was able to have lots of practice with redirection during my student teaching. I think I have
shown progress with conflict negotiation.
Photo Journal for Social/Emotional Support Strategies
o I was able to practice a lot of open-ended questions during this assignment to have children talk
about what they were doing.
Beliefs: How has completing the above assignments and your student teaching influenced your beliefs about
what constitutes appropriate guidance strategies and promoting the positive social emotional growth of
children?
Guidance Scenarios

o This assignment has influenced my beliefs about appropriate guidance strategies by actually
working with children and what works best with each child. I was able to figure out which
strategies worked best with certain children.
Photo Journal for Social/Emotional Support Strategies
o This assignment influenced my belief about appropriate guidance strategies by knowing that
children do not always need a teachers help to be successful. Sometimes children can really learn
by the help of their friends or even by themselves.
**Future Growth & Next Steps: Think about your future teaching, list three goals to help you improve
upon your existing knowledge and skills and your teaching.
As I continue working in the preschool environment, I will keep on practicing conflict negotiations with
children and learning which tools work best for each child.
I will continue learning how to use open-ended questions with children and having plenty of interactions
with children to form relationships with these children.
I have learned how important it is to form relationships with children during my student teaching. It has
helped me solve conflicts with children knowing how they act around the classroom. I think keeping a
photo journal in the future would help me catch interest of the children and seeing how to further help
them with conflicts.