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Child Developmemt CASE STUDY 1

This document outlines the steps and questions for a child case study assignment on a child between birth and 12 years old. Students are to: 1) Provide context for the selected child and setting, including developmental theories. 2) Establish a relationship with the child's family to understand their values and culture, and gain insights into the child's needs and family goals. 3) Use informal and formal observation and assessment strategies to identify the child's developmental needs across physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language domains. 4) Identify two immediate developmental goals and describe actions to promote the child's development and gain new competencies in those areas, grounded in research on child development and assessment partnerships.

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Child Developmemt CASE STUDY 1

This document outlines the steps and questions for a child case study assignment on a child between birth and 12 years old. Students are to: 1) Provide context for the selected child and setting, including developmental theories. 2) Establish a relationship with the child's family to understand their values and culture, and gain insights into the child's needs and family goals. 3) Use informal and formal observation and assessment strategies to identify the child's developmental needs across physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language domains. 4) Identify two immediate developmental goals and describe actions to promote the child's development and gain new competencies in those areas, grounded in research on child development and assessment partnerships.

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Child Development

Child Case Study

Name/s:________________________ Subject/Schedule:,__________________

Write an in-depth Case Study of one of the children between the ages of birth and 12
years old.

Your Case Study must respond directly to each of the following steps and questions:

Step One: Provide a brief context for the child you are studying and the setting

1. Why did you select this child for your case study?

Be sure to provide a basic context for selecting this child and other important factors ,
as well as describing the child’s unique characteristics and needs. What developmental
theory(ies) provides a framework for working with this child?

Step Two: Involve the Child’s Family

2. How did you establish a relationship with the child’s family?

What approaches did you take to better understand the child’s family, their community,
values and culture? If your initial approaches were not successful, discuss how you
modified your efforts to involve the family in meeting their child’s needs.

3. What did you learn about the child’s family and community and how did you
learn it?

Discuss what you learned about the family and community factors that might impact the
child’s development and learning? What did you learn from the family? What did you
learn from other sources? Were you informed by any family theory or research?

4. What insights into the child’s developmental and learning needs did you gain
from your relationship with the child’s family; and, the immediate and long-term
developmental goals the family has for the child?

Were you able to provide information about community or school resources that might
be helpful to the family or child?
Step Three: Identify the Child’s Developmental Needs

5. What informal and formal observation, documentation, and assessment


strategies and tools did you use in order to better understand the child’s
development and learning needs?

In your response to this question, make sure that you explain why you selected each
observation, documentation, and assessment approach that you used, and why you
elected not to use other tools or approaches.

6. What did you learn about the child’s developmental and learning needs?
Based on your use of informal and formal observation, documentation, and
assessment approaches, describe the child’s development related to each of
these five domains: physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language
development.

Step Four: Make a Plan for Action

7. What are two immediate developmental goals that make sense for this child?

Based on your study of the child and your relationship with the child’s family, identify
and present a rationale for two of the child’s most immediate developmental needs that
can be supported in the early childhood program setting.

8. What actions will you take to begin to promote positive development and
challenge the child to gain new competencies in each of the two areas that you
have identified?

Describe immediate and long-term actions you will take to help the child meet each of
the two goals you have selected. In your response to this question, make sure that you
explain what standards, best-practices, and developmental research and principles you
are using as a basis for your actions. What research supports the importance of
creating assessment partnerships?

Adapted from Developmental Child Case Study: Example Assessment, Rubrics,


and Data Tables for NAEYC

John Johnston, Heather Biggar Tomlinson, & Susan Harlan, 2007 3

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