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Workshop
We have now been in the Hoa Thuy Tien Kindergarten for two months and it is now time for us to present our first workshop. After spending some time observing the children, we have decided to focus on the social skills. We have chosen this subject, because it is highly valued in the Danish kindergartens. We also believe that it would be useful for the children here at the Hoa Thuy Tien kindergarten, because we have noticed that quite often the children play along each other and not with each other. We truly believe that it is important for the children to have good relations to each other.

The theoretical part:
We have chosen to base our theoretical part on Bente Jensen´s research. She was formerly Associate Professor, PhD at the Department of Educational Sociology, National University of Education is now an Associate Professor at the Institute for Learning with an interest in for research in social inheritance, vulnerable children and early intervention.
In an environment where the children feel that they are seen, where they feel safe and respected, will result in a natural and positive development of their social skills by participating and playing with other children and adults.
What are social skills?
What are social skills? There are a lot of different definitions of social skills. We have defined them as helping children become comfortable and competent in social situations. To be ableto establish friendships, be with other children, and to feel and express empathy and respect for other children.
Social skills is the ability to be curious about what happens around you, what are the other kids doing and can the child maybe learn something from them. It’s not only about playing alone, but about interacting in a group of children and adults. It also means that the child must be able to express its emotions to other children and make them understand their feelings. At the same time, the child has to be able to intercept the emotions coming back from the person it’s communicating with.
Social skills is also about seeing and understanding the needs of other children. They must be able to take part in the problems of other people, and help them if they are sad. Showing empathy is about putting you in other peoples place, and recognizing the needs of others. At last its important to be included in friendships and relations with other children. The contact they have every day is necessary for the development of the child.
Children develop their social skills, by bonding to other people, working together and by putting themselves in other peoples place.
The drawing above shows how you can connect the different areas of social skills. There are 4 big areas when you talk about social skills. That is Basic Interaction, Communication skills, Conflict Resolutions and Team Building skills. From each area there are links to smaller groups connected to that area. The first one is Basic interaction, where the most important ones are making eye contact, form groups quietly and sharing the materiel. For communication skills the most important are use low voices, take turns and listen to speaker. The next big group is conflict resolution. In this case the important links are compromise, negotiate and explorer different points of view. At last we have Team building skills. The three most important links in this group is offer your help, encourage each other and disagree with the idea, not the person. When we do the different activities outside (described later) we hope to get around all the groups, so that the children will have knowledge of all the areas connected around social skills

Why work with social skills?
The purpose of social skills is that the children are recognized and respected by the people surrounding them. Children should feel as they are a significant part of a group and have the opportunities to build social relationships and communities. Therefore children acquire a belief in themselves and the social opportunities ". The social aspect is defined not just as a matter of social behavior, but as good behavior or attached to avoid conflicts. The social aspect perceived rather as something fundamental, in order that the child learns and develops optimally. Social skills are not something you can measure or grade. However, social skills is necessary through your whole life. Its shown in the way you behave among other people at your work, your school, with your friends or just in the normal day to day life. Social skills are also useful to solve problems. It can be unexpected problems at your work that you have a better chance to solve if you have learned social skills from the childhood. Its not reasonable to say have if you have success in life, you must have social skills. But if you can live a normal life in a society, and you feel happy about yourself, its is possible that you have some sort of social skills.
How does one work and give support to the development of the social skills?
It is important that children are supported to form friendships and learn how to get into and be a part of a group. It is in relations with others, children experience the strength and importance, and here there is access to give and gain recognition.
It is not easy to show what social skills are because as we told you, social skills are many things combined to each other. But we have found a little puppet video from Youtube, which shows how to act and not to act in three different situations to be a good friend.
As the video shows, in any given situation there are always two or more ways of reaction during a conflict. The video illustrates how one can react in a good or in a bad way, the good way being how to demonstrate good social skills.
We now have 2 examples from the classroom, showing how the teachers can use social skills to create relations for all the children, also the quiet ones. We have observed that when it´s time to play with toys, in the afternoon, it´s often the same children playing together and some children sitting alone with the toys. In that case the teachers can help the quiet children by encouraging them to play with the other children. Then they will have the possibility to interact and communicate. In general they will feel more satisfaction when they learn, that their opinion is just as important as the other children. At the same time the teachers must encourage the more notable children to allow the quiet children to speak and be a part of the activity.
The next example from the classroom is our observations about being a new child in a class. when a new child starts I Hoa Thuy Tien kindergarden, its important for the child to feel welcome and safe. The teachers can help with this by preparing the other kids for a new child, so that they will be ready to take good care of the him/her. Its the teachers job to encourage the children to help and show the new child how things are done in the daily routines.
We have now talked about the theory, and described for you what social skills are and why it is important to work with.


Deskription of the activities
After the break we will go outside and show you which activities you can use to improve the social skills. The most important thing for these activities is for the children to talk to each other in a nice way, help each other, teamwork, taking care of others if they have problems, and help the kids to trust each other. But it’s also important for the children to be able to explain their feelings to the other children. If they have problems with the activity or think it’s hard, they must tell the teachers or the other children, instead of crying or sitting quietly in the corner.
We have chosen to do these activities like a menu, with starters, main course and dessert. This is an initiative we got from one of our subject: SKB (Health, Body and Movement) Today you teachers will participate as the children. Thats so you can learn the games and then learn it to the children later on.
For starters you have to do a game where a group of people stands on a blanket, and at the same time flip it upside down. This game will help the children communicate, help each other and support each other, because the best way to solve this activity is by teamwork. The next activity is the game called, follow the leader. It’s a game where you have to pick out one leader and then all the others have to follow the leader in a long line. Then they have to copy everything the leader does. If they don’t copy him or get out of the line, they are out of the game. This activity helps a child being aware of what other children do. It’s also important to do exactly the same as a group, because if one child does the wrong thing, maybe the others will do the same. Again it helps the children to work together, and notice what happens around them. Because all the children must try being the leader, it also gives them success, because they can decide what all the other children must do.
For main curse we have decided that you have to do an obstacle court while you are blinded. This is done 2 and 2 together, and then one has blinded eyes and is the person who has to complete the court. The other person´s job is to guide, touch and lead him through the court. In this game you practice communication skills, helping another person, and then you also learn to trust other people, because they have to help you through the court.
For the dessert we have chosen to do something called pizza massage. Again you are 2 and 2 together. One of you has to give the other a massage like you make a pizza. From making the dough, putting on the tomato sauce, and ending it with topping. This helps the children to trust each other, gives them an relaxing time and its also good for creating healthy relations. Sometimes some children have difficulties with giving and receiving a massage. If thats the case you can start by using a ball instead of a person.




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