Answer to Question #92823 in English for Thato

Question

What can one learn from infant and toddler teaching practice experience, mention both positive and negative aspects.

Answer 1

From teaching practice experience with toddlers everyone can learn how to become a role model for a child, how to develop toddler’s communication skills and also how to pay attention to individual well being. The negative experience with toddlers appears in their aggressive behavior, constant complaints and apparent unhappiness.

Among positive teaching practice with infants are the ability to communicate with infants using their « baby language », possibility to follow the child’s lead and tracking the infant’s development. The negative aspects are increased anxiety, loss of control and distress.