Saturday, October 12, 2013

Introduction to the Teaching Practicum Report

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My Case of Study: Nicole

Age: 8 years old.
Introduction


I would like to start this blog by saying that human beings are different, cognitively, physically, even socio-emotionally. My case of study, Nicole, is not an exception. According to what psychologists say, all of us respond differently one of others. People have different capacity and ability to retain information and memorizing. It is curious how people deal with intelligence. In fact, people almost have significant differences on emotional system. When we look at the sensory and the motor systems in our body, this helps us to deal with our environment and to interact not only inside the environment but also with others as well. In this way, children learn how adapt their thinking and acting with the social and physical environment. When we talk about mind and body, it is important to talk about emotions and reasoning. Therefore, when we deal with emotional disorders or emotional problems, we also deal with cognition. That is why we wonder, when does the generic interfere? At this point we can say that the closer to people are generically; the closer they are in terms of appearance, in terms of behavior, and emotions. What genetics are actually doing is that genetics go through our brain to get some tracks and those tracks become systems and the systems deal with our environment. Thinking about systems, such as the sensory systems, vision, hearing, and tactile systems, we think about motor skills and movements in order to get food and move from one place to the other. They are different systems that help us to interact with the environment and be part of the environment.

I jump it out in here because taking this background as a previous knowledge; I can say that my case of study is probably affected by environment, poor connectedness between feeling of security and safety, poor freedom of expression.

Socio Emotional Development

Heredity or Environment?

Researchers have argued that hormones account the behavior in boys and girls; boys are more physically aggressive because of the increased level of testosterone, otherwise, girls are less physically aggressive. In addition, they argue that hormones affect the visual spatial and verbal abilities among children. Research has shown that boys are slightly higher visual spatial abilities while girls have slightly higher verbal abilities.
Typically there are many environmental influences that force children to respond. For instance, parents, media, teachers, friend, even themselves influence in a positively or negatively way in children.
In this specific case, Nicole lives with her family, mother, father, and one brother. I could say that Nicole has adapted the influence of her parents, her mother and father tend to be shy when they are trying to be part of a social environment, and thereby she has not reached the higher verbal ability; one factor has affected the other one. Environment has affected the heredity, according to research.

Poor connectedness between feeling of security and safety

Because of the influence of her parents’ behavior, Nicole has not found her connection between the feeling of security and safety. At the age of eight, children try to do things individually, but her mother still tends to be overprotective. Nicole always shows this insecurity at the time she is facing with an unknown environment, otherwise, she feels safe if she is with someone familiar to her. The connection between her feelings has not been encouraged by the influences of her family. This factor has not permitted that Nicole feels secure and protected in the world.

Poor freedom of expression

Children must be able to think at this age, they openly express their feelings and ask for what they want and need. But this has not achieved because of her poor contact with the world. The insecurity is shown in a way she does not express her feelings, for instance, the way she moves, speaks, even receives a command that has been asked.


In sum, Nicole has acquired what has been learned by her partners. She imitates what she sees. On the other hand, this is what psychologists say, “Children are social beings. Most of what our kids do is to find a place in the family and their world”. The healthy connection between her and her world is possible if the connectedness between feelings of security and safety increases, otherwise, she tends to feel afraid of the things they has and of the place where is.

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