Reflective Practice Guidance Logs Part 1 Objective Observation

(Clearly identify the problem. Examine the context of the problem)

Date: Sept 23.2013 A little boy sitting on the carpet playing with and iron man toy, he was told to go to the bathroom, so he placed his iron man toy on the carpet and stood up and walked to the bathroom. A little girl walked over from the bathroom and she bent down and sat on the carpet, she picked up the iron man toy and began to move him all over the carpet. P.O walked out the bathroom and walked towards J.K and stretched out his hand for the iron man toy. J.K turned her body saying, No. P.O began to yell, gimme my toy I had it first. J.K said No you didn't I had it. P.O moved forward towards her reaching for the toy. She held the iron man toy down on the floor. She pouted her lips and lowered her head towards the floor, and began to cry. I want a turn. and she still had iron man in her hands, P.O was leaning towards her reaching for the toy. I intervened

Part 2 Decision
(Clearly identify the guidance strategy and state why the chosen strategy is appropriate for this child and the situation)

The guidance strategy that I chose here was teaching conflict resolution. This is appropriate for the children and the situation because they both want to play with the iron man toy and the need to learn conflict resolution to help solve their issue peacefully without having to punish them for arguing. This type of problem solving can help them in many aspects of their lives. Part 3 Actions
(Clearly discuss your actions (what you did and said), the childs response and the results of the guidance strategy)

What I did in this situation was I walked over to the children and bent down to their level. Hey guys whats going on? They both began to talk at one time. One at a time please, Miss Ellishya cant hear you, lets take turns so we can all have a turn. First Im going to swing iron man to the side for a second so we can talk it out. J.K gave me the iron man and I put him beside me. Okay from what miss Ellishya seen P.O went to the bathroom and put his toy down on the carpet, and J.K walked over and started to play with it. Am I close so far? they both nodded and. Than P.O came out the bathroom and wanted the toy back but J.Ks playing with it. What do you think we can do about it guys? Miss Ellishya I had the toy first. said P.O. Okay so do you think we can takeeee Turns P.O blurted out. You can have a turn when Im done using it. J.K looked up and towards P.O and I she nodded o.k. So next time what are we going to do when this happens?

Use our words and take turns said P.O. J.K said share with my friends, and she began to pick up another toy. P.O moved iron man all over and then he walked towards J.K and put iron man in front of him saying here J.K you can play with iron man now its your turn, J.K smiled saying thank-you and stretched out her right hand taking iron man in both hands and placing him on the floor playing with him. I looked at P.O and said, Good sharing P.O. J.K its your turn now. Isnt it nice when we share with our friends? They shook their head up and down and P.O went towards the toy shelf. That's why daycare has so many toys for us to play with so we can play with our friends. The strategy worked good because the children needed a little bit of scaffolding but they new that they should take turns by the way P.O blurted out the taking turns when I asked what we could do. The result was good because P.O gave J.K the toy when he was finished playing with it and J.K was happy she got her turn like P.O said during decision-making. Now when they get into a disagreement they will use their words to solve the problem and come up with a positive decision for everyone.

Part 4 Reflection
(Clearly discuss your strengths and needs and the changes that you would make if needed)

Strengths Some strengths that I had through this experience were the ability to have the children trust me enough to tell me what was wrong. I built relationships with each of the children so was able to help them solve their own issues. Some other strengths that I possessed in this situation was that I seen it from the beginning to the end and was able to regurgitate what had happened from the beginning to the end. They were very surprised when they seen that I knew exactly what happened. I grew a lot throughout this placement in implementing what I learn in class many of these strategies already come easy but placing the in their

Needs Some needs that I have are being able to be more firm I sometime come across as soft so the children dont believe me or listen to my words. In this situation specifically I could learn to step back a bit more because I am still scaffolding their decisions and they know what hey are doing so if I step back a bit they will have to solve more the problem themselves. I tend to want to help more but am learning that that is not going to help them as they grow up. I am slowly trying to get into the habit of thinking of many different strategies that can apply to an issue. Right now when there is a problem I use the first strategy that pops into my mind that applies to the

category is sometimes difficult but I whole heartedly enjoy this experience. I also believe that I am now able to talk to the children with a more firm voice before the children would take me as one of the children but now I feel like they respect me as an educator. This is just opening the doors to my knowledge and I am gaining so much of it.

situation but there are more strategies that I could use to come up with a similar or better outcome. In this case it worked out well. I want to have enough confidence to direct the children and guide them into a prosperous learning experience. My techniques are good I know I do a lot of strategies but sometimes placing them in the right category is confusing but I will get there.

Discuss the changes that you would make and why you would make them.

Some changes I would make would be I would step out the situation and use less words more attentive listening, so the children are able to solve the problem themselves. I tend to want to get in there and help but have to learn that they are not babies and have the mind capacity to do most things.

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