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Reflective Analysis of Portfolio Artifact

Rationale/Reflection
NAEYC Standard:
STANDARD 1. PROMOTING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING
Candidates prepared in early childhood degree programs are grounded in a child development knowledge
base. They use their understanding of young childrens characteristics and needs, of multiple interacting
influences on childrens development, and create environments that are healthy, respectful, supportive, and
challenging for each child. (NAEYC, 2010)

Brief Description of Evidence:
During the fall semester of 2013 during my ECED 223-School Age Programming course, I worked on a
Child Case Study. The parameters of this assignment were to choose a school age child (between six and
twelve years old) and, after receiving permission from the childs parent, perform a case study on the child.
This entailed making observations of the child in their everyday setting at school, home or daycare. I observed
a seven year old girl in her daycare setting, recorded my observations and formulated an analysis on my
findings.
Analysis of What I Learned:
Through completion of this assignment I learned the importance of recognizing childrens
characteristics and needs and what influences them. Children are in need of healthy, respectful, supportive
and challenging environments in order to maximize their learning, and we as educators need to provide such
an environment. Developmentally appropriate as well as age appropriate activities and lesson plans are
essential to a childs development, but it is equally important to be able to understand and identify if certain
children are on different levels of development. This identification helps the educator plan activities and
lessons that ALL of her children can learn from and track her childrens development.
How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the NAEYC Standard:
My completion of this assignment widened my understanding of young childrens characteristics and
needs and what influences them. Multiple interacting influences such as race, socioeconomic status,
availability/access to resources and family structure affect the way a child learns and develops. I found that
observational tools are crucial to the early childhood environment and that knowledge about the varying
development of ALL the children one works with is vital to planning a developmentally appropriate, age
appropriate and meaningful curriculum.

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