To prepare:
Watch the Laureate Education media segment How to Observe Children in the Learning Resources. Familiarize yourself with developmental milestones for young children between the ages of birth and 2 with materials provided in the Learning Resources. Then, watch the Laureate Education media segment Child Development: Infants and Toddlers and complete the following:
Part 1: Observing Young Children
For the age group observed (infants and toddlers), provide the following:
Anecdotal descriptions for each of the developmental domains:
· Social-emotional
· Cognitive
· Language
· Physical
Three anecdotal descriptions that capture the interrelationship between developmental domains
Guidelines for anecdotal descriptions: Your anecdotal descriptions provide an objective summary of what you observed in the areas of social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development. For each description, be sure to include specific language that captures the nuances of development. Your descriptions should focus on one or two children and be a half page to 1 page in length for each developmental area
