In the real society, we need strong classroom teaching ability, reflect on ourselves, and we must let ourselves go out to see events or scenes and see ourselves for a while. So what kind of reflection is good? The following is my observation and reflection on the complaining behavior of small class children in kindergarten. Welcome everyone to learn from it, I hope it will help you.

According to survey data, among the nine kinds of teacher-child interaction initiated by children, complaining is the most common behavior, accounting for 26.4%. About 60% children complain to teachers every day in kindergartens, and some complain as many as five times a day, which makes teachers overwhelmed. The following will observe and record the complaints of small class children.

Venue: Kindergarten Class of Hangzhou Normal University

Sample size: 6 people (according to the understanding of two semesters, complaining children and the most representative complaining children). A: Beibei, B: Jiajia; C: Yifan, D: Lele; E: Tingting, F: Canon.

Total time for observation and recording: Tuesday morning and part of Friday afternoon for two months.

Observation types: participation observation, qualitative observation, direct observation and unstructured observation.

Observing Target Behavior: Children's Complaining Behavior

In this observation, children's complaining behavior refers to an interactive behavior initiated by children to teachers when they are violated by their peers in their daily lives or find that some behaviors of their peers do not meet the collective rules of kindergartens and some requirements of teachers.

Observe the nature of the event:

In this observation, children's complaining behaviors will be divided into six types, which will be defined separately below.

1. Follow-up complaint: This is a very typical complaint found in the target class, which slightly overlaps with the other five, but because of its typicality, it is taken out as a class alone. This kind of complaint is usually due to children's playful nature, and they find it funny to complain one after another.

Definition of operation: children blindly follow other children and make persistent accusations against a defendant child (defendant children usually don't violate the behavior of blind children).

2. Complaining for help: In group activities, children may have differences, compete for toys, collide with each other and bully the weak. When these events develop to a certain extent. One or both parties will complain to the teacher. It accounts for a large proportion in children's complaining behavior.

This kind of complaint is because things that are difficult for children can be solved by asking the teacher for help, by the teacher's intervention, or even by a word, a smile and a nod. Therefore, children often use the authority of teachers to exercise some privileges that they cannot exercise. This is one of the reasons why children complain to their teachers whenever they encounter difficulties.

Operation definition: children's complaint behavior in order to let teachers solve disputes fairly or ask teachers to protect themselves,

3. Complaining about seeking rewards: This is a common complaint behavior of children, based on the psychology that teachers should pay attention to. This kind of complaint is not to stop the behavior of peers, nor to punish each other, but to show the advantages of teachers and gain their appreciation. On the surface, she is defending the rules, but in fact, she is driven by rewards.

Definition of operation: other children, especially peers, complain in order to attract the teacher's attention when they have "illegal behavior"

4. Seek punishment complaints: Some children's complaints are neither seeking protection, nor expressing themselves, nor caring for others, but "reporting". The motive is revenge or jealousy, and the purpose of complaining is to achieve the purpose of revenge with the help of the teacher. This kind of complaint is out of revenge. The children are worried about some previous festivals, so they complain to the teacher and vent their dissatisfaction.

Operation definition: children complain out of revenge or jealousy, hoping to achieve the purpose of revenge through teachers.

5. Exploratory complaints: Sometimes children will tell someone about their behavior without conflict, in order to test the teacher's attitude towards this behavior. If the teacher has a positive attitude towards this, the complaining child will immediately do similar behavior. This kind of complaint is because children are not sure whether some practices violate the rules or not, and whether they are allowed by the teacher, so they use strategies such as asking and prompting to complain to the teacher for verification.

Operation definition: children's complaining behavior to test the teacher's attitude.

6. Declarative complaint: This is the most common complaint behavior in our class. The purpose of complaining is not to attract teachers' attention to themselves, to make teachers appreciate themselves, to make teachers punish each other, and to create conflicts of interest. I just hope that teachers can realize or understand each other's behavior, that is, the purpose of their complaints is only to distinguish right from wrong or to state a situation.

Definition of operation: children are in a certain situation, judge the situation according to the teacher's words or actions, state a fact to the teacher in time or evaluate the behavior of their peers (mostly negative comments).

Reflection:

In this observation, I made a satisfactory part:

First of all, since the end of April, I have determined the target behavior events and considered the contents required for observation records in advance. So although the teacher's lectures and observation are relatively backward, I have prepared for observation in advance. After two months' observation, based on the observation results and related theories, I got a classification of complaining behavior suitable for my class.

What I think is missing is:

First of all, I'm still a little confused about the requirements of the whole observation record operation. For example, I have observed dozens of children's incidents, but after finishing my homework, I chose six most representative children, 1-2 most representative incidents. Is this a good practice?

In addition, I think the theme of this observation should not be just such an event sampling, which is the most failed place of my observation. If there is a next time, I will make some improvements.

Improvement:

First of all, like this time, through long-term understanding and observation, the classification of target behavior is formulated according to the situation of the class.