Behaviur Management Analysis of the Behaviour

[Natura]

Your Assignment Module Number and Heading: CHCECE20 Behaviour Management.
Your Assignment Type: Case Scenario
Currently Working in Childcare? No
Your knowledge: Beginner

Your Question?
Hi Everyone.
I have a question in regards on how to analyse an observation on behaviour.
I have done the 10 observations on behaviour for my focus child. I have used different methods to record the observations. The focus child is the only child of a family (mother and father). The child is a very advanced child however she has certain ways to react if people cross her when: Grabbing the resources she is using, invading her space. According to previous observations she uses words for hurting, hands and feet for kicking. I will post just one observation with the analysis I have done so far.

My questions are:
Am I right with the analysis of the behaviour I am showing you here?
Second question: My head is spinning with this. How do I link an observation based on disruptive behaviour (mentioned before, kicking, hitting) with the EYLF outcomes?
Just to clarify I have done other observations on development and I have no trouble linking this type of observations with the EYLF outcomes, but with disruptive behaviour I dont know how to do it...




This is my observation:
Focus child: Vivian. 4 YO.

Myriam, Patty, Natalie and Vivian were playing in the home corner pretending they were going to sleep and wake up the next morning. A couple of boys were trying to get into the game. The girls decided that only Will could join the game. Myriam was the “boss” owner of the house and everyone had to follow her instructions.
The pretending play had different characters: Myriam was the mother, Will the Father, Natalie the baby sister and Patty and Vivian the big sisters.
The girls were using a big sheet to cover themselves. Myriam was telling Will that there was no place for him under the sheet. Will said to Myriam: “It is not fair, I am the dad and I can come into the house”. Will said to the girls: “I am angry and I want to come in”. Myriam replied: “leave us alone”. Will grabbed a hard plastic animal toy the beetle and threw it to the sheet where the girls were covering themselves.
Natalie was crying because the toy hit her face. She got up came out of the sheet and pushed Will: “You hit me”. Will replied “I want to play and you don’t allow me to get in”. Then Myriam, Patt and Vivian came to support their friend Natalie. The argument started when the three girls (Myriam, Patt and Vivian) started throwing the plastic vegetables and fruit from the shopping learning center. I was observing the children while I was interacting with other children in the shopingt center, when I saw the girls throwing the objects to Will; I said to them. “Please stop that kind of game. Put the vegetables back here in the learning center”. The girls stopped throwing but Will did not pay attention of what I said, and threw another plastic animal, and hit Vivian’s feet. Vivian used her foot to kick Will right at the top of his chest. Will was crying and came to me with her hand on his chest saying “my chest hurts”. I checked Will’s chest and there was a red mark on it. I called Vivian and Will to talk about the event. The girls were surrounding us and they did not want to leave us.
I talked to Will about the danger of using hands to throw things to our friends. He replied that he was angry that they did not allow him to play with them. I talked to Vivian and remind her of the rule that at the center, children are not allowed to hit our friends, something that she replied with a “Sorry I was defending myself”.
The girls (Myriam, Patt and Natalie) apologized to Will for not allowing him to play with them. Will said : “That’s fine but next time is my turn to go into the house”. I asked Will if he was going to say sorry for hitting Vivian and Natalie, something that he was eager to do it: “sorry Vivian, I won’t do that again, sorry for hurting your feet; Sorry Natalie for throwing the toy”
When it was Vivian’s turn to apologize to Will she said for three times:
“I don’t need to say sorry, he hit me first, I was defending myself”. I asked Vivian: “Do you want to give him a hug?” “No thanks, I don’t want”. The girls left and went to play in the home corner while Will join Paul to play in the cubby house under the table.

What is your answer so far or What have you done so far as an attempt to solve this question?
Analysis of the observation
Interpretation:

For this case scenario, Vivian responds hitting back Will when she is physically attacked by an object that was thrown by her peer.
Vivian shows lack of verbal skills when instead of using words to show disapproval to William’s action, she reacts with a physical action of kicking with her foot right to William’s chest.
It is interesting to see how Vivian recognizes that she has done wrong when the observer discusses with her that It is a No No to use physical violence in the center. She can easily say sorry. However when she is asked to use her verbal skills to apologize to Will, she refuses to apologize and expresses the reason why she does not need to say sorry to him.

The behaviour presented in this observation needs to be altered in Vivian’s reaction, in order to give her assistance on how to deal with frustration with situations like this. Teaching her the skills of thinking quickly before reacting, in order to avoid other type of consequences that could affect the health of the child who is being physically hurt on his chest.
An important factor to consider here is the environment. The room for this children has great capacity to run different learning centers at the time. More resources need to be displayed in different corners so the children can easily get engaged, without getting into trouble for not having more programmed activities.


Opportunities and alternatives:
The environment should be rearranged in order to avoid crowded areas which could cause frustration and provoke situations like the one in the observation.
Trough Book Time, reading about The good use of our hands and feet, will reinforce the concept on how we can use our hands and feet for good things.


Questions:
Am I on the right track with the Analysis?
How to link a negative behaviour of kickingin this to the EYLF outcomes?
I would appreciate your assistance.

Cheers.

Natura

Description and Message:

[Lorina]

Hi Natura,

Very well written, very detailed. The analysis you have written is justified through what you have observed and you have provided good evidence which links your reasons back to your observation.

In regards to using the learning outcomes for this type of observation I think you should only focus on the positives and using the positives choose the learning outcomes to suit the observation. So, from reading through the observation you had written the learning outcomes I have identified include:

1.1 Children feel safe, secure and supported

1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency

1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation

Keeping in mind the outcomes I have identified above read the following:

How Children Can Achieve Each Outcome and you should be able to identify the links of the positives within your observation based on Vivien.

Hopefully this helps you out,

,
L.A

[Natura]

Thanks Lorina.
I understand now how to link an observation on behaviour to the EYLF "Only the positive"
According to the observation, I can see see that my focus child sticks up for herself perhaps not in the right way to make people to understand the she needs respect, but what I like of this girl is that she is assertive, very well driven.. Ah well! these little people are like any adult person with different personalities, views. What a great opportunity we have as educators to instill in these children good habits and values.

Thanks again.

Natura.