Early Childhood Education - Future Students

Running head: Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Part 1
Video 2: Three and four year-old play in the outdoor space
https://youtu.be/lxc_29ZjYqw
Running record
Description of the physical environment:
The play centre is an outdoor space which is two storeyed and the camera has been fitted to
a suitable place between the two storeys, in order to get a better view of the children.
Almost a glimpse of 3-4 children of 3-4 years can be caught in the camera. A small
climbing cargo net can be seen between the two storeys and there is a toy motorcycle.
Children’s speech and action
Ron calls to Adams for playing police? “Hey Adams, you wanna play police with me?”
Let’s climb this rope, Hurry up, we need to catch the thieves, they are high up that
mountains”. Both Ron and Adams are trying to climb up that rope.
Sophie asked the educator by pointing to the camera, enquiring “what is this fitted on the
wall, can we see through it? Is anyone spying on us?
The educator said “No dear it’s just a camera that is recording everything”
Sophie starts making sounds of car horns, “peep-peep-peep: `all the students started
making the noise peep-peep-peep-peep.
The educator said, “Is that everything you’re gonna do infront of the camera?” “Yeah!!!!”
shouted the children”.
While Ron had been climbing up the rope, Adams, had been showing no interest in the
climbing. Adams had laid down in the ground and is sometimes crawling forward.

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Notes and Interpretations: It is evident from the video that all the children are
enjoying to their fullest during their free play activity. Ron instructs Adams to play Police
and what part he have to play, but he agrees on his roles. While Ron is proactive in
climbing the cargo nets, whereas Adams is not very proactive in climbing the cargo nets.
Adams has been found to be avoiding the cargo nets, rather than preferred stairs to get up
the next basement. This might indicate towards lack of motor skills. Acts like delayed
sitting, walking sitting or avoiding sports like climbing ropes and cargo nets indicates
towards delayed motor skill development (Temple et al., 2016). In another interpretation it
can be seen that the children are not very interested structured play, as when the educator
asked the students whether they want to do anything interesting in front of the camera, they
stated making noise in front of the camera. Although guided play might be helpful in
managing a chaotic class, where the number of students are less. Intrinsically motivated
free play provides the child with the true autonomy, whereas guided play is the avenue by
which the parents can provide more targeted experience. It can be seen here that most of
the children are enjoying the motivated free play and are not agreeing to sit on their own.
None of the children in the video looked lazy or disinterested in the play.
Video 3: Infant play and routine in an ECE setting
https://youtu.be/Ivi49PzTr64

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Narrative observation
Description of the physical environment
There are almost seven children in the ECE setting. All of the children are less than 2 years.
The class is well decorated and contained enough lighting. The entire space have adequate
equipment for allowing the toddlers to play.
Observation
The ECE contained seven to eight children. The one in pink dress (Aliyah), is
crawling around the entire ground. Just as she was put down in the ground she started the
crawling. She crawled aimed to get hold of wooden cupboard, but the educator removed it
from her reach such that she doesn’t get hurt. One of the educator carried another infant
Mariyah who would not stop crying throughout the entire observation. The educators started
to sing song so that Mariyah would stop. Another child in blue dress named Joseph can be
seen, who is seen to crawling across the entire space of the setting, but he is not crawling in a
normal way. But is sitting, folding his legs, and is moving the entire weight of the body by
his own hand. Justin, the one with blue pants has been found to trying out each and every
thing present in the room and seems he is not distracted by Mariyah’s cry. One educator is
seen to be playing with him and cuddling and he is laughing out loud.
Interpretation
From the observation, it can be analysed that Aliyah had been active in crawling. This
is important as she had been using her hand, neck, arms, back and legs. This would help her
to walk without assistance. Furthermore, she has also displayed interest in small toys littered
in the ground. She is also responsive when a teachers called her from the back and hence