First Reflection on Observation

Well, I have been observing children in this age group in my class at Ashley Hall. I just started this associate teaching position in August and I love it and therefore have a little bit of a heads up on the 0-3 years age group as I get to observe and interact with them every day. Each day I am surprised, shocked, and impressed by the children in my class and believe it or not they teach me something new every day as well. Right now I would have to say that the largest learning idea going on in my classroom seems to be the potty. Several of my children are potty-trained but we still have a few that are not. It is funny to me because on the first day the parents came in and would tell us where the children were in the process and a lot of the parents voiced that their children had no interest in it whatsoever. What I have found is that when these children are placed in a room with other children who are potty-trained or do have an interest in being potty-trained, their whole mindset changes. The children who are not somehow have a new interest in it because they see their classmates being involved in it and they must somehow feel the pressure to keep up with their peers. I just found this to be very interesting because I have known that this can happen later on in life, but did not think that it could start as young as two years old.