Analysis of Child Observation and Development Assessment Tools Report

This report delves into the significance of various observation and assessment tools used by teachers in early childhood education, specifically focusing on children aged 2 to 5 years. It highlights the crucial role of teachers in fostering learning and development through engaging and accessible methods. The report examines two key assessment tools: storytelling and photography. For each tool, it provides a detailed analysis of its theoretical basis, ethical implications, and practical implications for teachers. The report emphasizes the importance of storytelling as a traditional yet effective method for instilling morals and developing cognitive skills, while also exploring the use of photography as a visual aid to enhance understanding and critical thinking. The conclusion underscores the effectiveness of these tools in supporting child learning and development, emphasizing the need for teachers and parents to collaborate in the early educational stages.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Observation or assessment tool..............................................................................................................2
Story Telling......................................................................................................................................2
Theoretical basis............................................................................................................................3
Appropriateness.............................................................................................................................3
Ethical implications.......................................................................................................................3
Implication by teachers..........................................................................................................................4
Photography demonstration...............................................................................................................4
Theoretical basis............................................................................................................................4
Appropriateness.............................................................................................................................5
Ethical implications.......................................................................................................................5
Implication by teachers..................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The objective of this report is to identify and recognise importance of different observation
and assessment tolls used in the early child education and development stage by teachers.
Early stage of childhood majorly it is stated from 2 to 5 years, a primary teacher play
significant role to educate and develop a child and these assessment tools helps them to make
the learning funny and easy with great involvement. Two assessment tools selected to discuss
in this report are; Story Telling and Photography Observation assessment tools. Deep analysis
of these tools will include its theoretical basis, ethical implications, and effect over the
learning and development.
Observation or assessment tool
Teaching method in the present time are developing more than sitting an place and
delivering the lectures, many new concepts of learning as mother teachers, story-telling,
pictography and involvement in the play and learn activities are changing the education
scenarios. Based on the psychological concept some assessment tools base educations as fun
because child has no capacity to read but visual arts and involvement help him to understand
and learn the new things. These two selected assessment tools have many significant impacts
over the teachers and students both, because getting in bind is essential for a teacher to
deliver learning’s practices.
Story Telling
It is not a new concept of teaching infect it the most used and oldest source of communication
used by the parents, grandparents to teach a child good morals and ethical practices. This
practice is based on the concepts to create imaginative ideas and develop thinking capacities

in children. In addiction story telling deliver decision making strategies in a child to decide
what was good or bad in the story.
Source (Gallagher, 2011)
Theoretical basis
According to Gallgher, storytelling is important to education research, it includes narrative
methodologies, innovative ideas, leading imagination, and albeit important in producing, the
reactionary and imperialistic accounts (Gallagher, 2011). It develop the thinking and
creativity ideas of children by making an outline in their mind, it use many tricks to identify
how the student is learning and in what direction he is getting the learning.
Appropriateness
Story narration and delivering to student with involvement of all essential steps is profitable,
although it has narrow mind development but application of imaginary questions and active
involvement can result better to the listener and teller both.

Ethical implications
Storytelling has been around as long as humanity. It is a linking idea among two individual. It
provides sense, framework, and indulgent in a creation that is repeatedly full with anarchy
and chaos. Because of this, teachers must use stories if they expect to range their students.
Every part of a story deliver something good and moral to listener, because teachers includes
good and bad characters and deliver sentence to support good character as important. It
allows listener to think upon what end is suitable this develop their ethical impression in real
life as well.
 Helps children to discover their personal cultural origins
 Helps children to practice various cultures
 Allows children recognize how sense is mutual to all peoples
 Deal visions into worldwide life involvements
 Allows children reflect new philosophies
 disclose alterations and commonalties of cultures around the world
Implication by teachers
Applying story telling in teaching and learning development activities requires involvement
of many essential skills that can make this profitable.
Identification of the performance techniques to relate it with the plot, use effective facial
expression and volume tone to attract the listeners. Effective body language and actions to
make the child attractive towards the story can help early educators make a bond of effective
communication.

Photography demonstration
As a educational tool, the use of photography is common in early babyhood education.
Teachers have integrated photography in early childhood classrooms to support in recording
education and to donate to the calculation of child growth results, and educator teachers have
also used taking pictures to demonstrate the development to other stakeholders as well.
Pictures and photos are digital source to deliver the education to student y making them to
visualise the things and develop their thinking accordingly (Robin, 2016).
Source (Byrnus & Wasik, 2009)
Theoretical basis
Pictures are permanent and they deliver a long story to the viewer, use of catchy pictures
attract the viewer and allows to use imaginative ideas developing the learning and
development.
These pictures have no words, but can help to teach thousands of words. These pictures allow
teachers to raise questions from the student to demonstrate the ideas they get in their mind
and teachers can evaluate their understanding by defining the pictures.

Appropriateness
Pictures or photography uses in the education and learning development is most appropriate
technique or teaching skill that allows the children to represent the ideas and new concept.
Children have no ability to learn alphabets but visual representation of alphabets with
pictures can help them to identify the letters and learn easily (Byrnus & Wasik, 2009).
Ethical implications
According to Friedman, digital cameras and pictures have become important concept in
developing the educational development programs. These digital pictures develop potentiality
to acquire visual literacy, it increases visual, cultural, and technological background in which
pictures, and visual images are a dominant factor in defining basic perceptions such as reality,
identity, time, space, and relationships (Friedman, 2016).
Implication by teachers
Use of attractive pictures and digital photographical in teaching and learning can help
teachers to make effective bonding and connection with the students. Children from 2-5 years
have developing innovative ideas and learning capabilities hence teachers can use pictures to
connect children with their culture, other diversified culture and aspect.
Conclusion
This report is based on analysis of effective assessment tools useful in teaching and early
education development programmes. This report concludes that many assessment tools are
effective as storytelling and digital pictures, to demonstrate the learning to the children.
These sources with effective observation help to make effective contribution of teachers and
parents to develop child learning and development at the early educational development
stage.

References
Byrnus, J., & Wasik, B. (2009). Picture This: Using Photography as a Learning Tool in Early
Childhood Classrooms. Childhood Education.
Friedman, A. (2016). Three-Year-Old Photographers: Educational and Parental Mediation as
a Basis for Visual Literacy via Digital Photography in Early Childhood. Journal of
Media Literacy Education, 15-311.
Gallagher, M. (2011). In search of a theoretical basis for storytelling in education research:
story as method. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 49-61.
Robin, B. (2016). The power of digital storytelling to support teaching and learning. Digital
Education Review, 17-29.