CYRIL POTTER COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

TURKEYEN CAMPUS, TURKEYEN, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Final Assessment Project

An Assignment
of the Requirements for the Course
Behaviour Analysis and Classroom Management

INSTRUCTOR: Nick Edwards

By

Basmattie Singh 21-ade-pri-d-gt-265

14, December 2022.

Approval……………………
 Abstract

A child is the most helpless mammal in the world when it is born from the womb of a mother. As the
child grows it acquire the abilities and capacities to acquire the social skills to cope with the existing
demands of the family, community and society. And likewise, the child has to pass through different
stages in his or her life. . Such type of one of the period is adolescence and it is the period of life with
specific needs and rights. It is the time they search for identity. It is the time when they get more
knowledge about worldly things and worldly pleasures and more specifically they come to understand
about morality of the human person.
After an extended period watching and observing Joshua Singh, the bystander is able to see where
Joshua, is developmentally. He is growing physically, mentally, and emotionally as a child his age. While
he has not mastered all the required steps for his age group he is achieving more and more of them each
day and will be able to enter school in good standing. The following case study will discuss where Joshua
is excelling and where he still needs a little work.
 Section A
Joshua Singh is a child that is almost 6 years old and lives with his father and grandparents and
occasionally spends time with his mother at her residence. His father is a fisher man and his mother stays
at home as a housewife. Joshua is presently the only child for his father but the eldest for his mother
because she has another child. He loves to play with his baby sister, watch cartoons and build things using
blocks. He doesn’t like the word “NO” and is having a hard time adjusting to his mom’s attempt to add
structure into their unstructured life due to his mother and father being separated. Throughout this study,
the observation of Joshua was taken at his house and at school.

Physical Development
Joshua developed normally through the prenatal, infancy, and toddler stages. He was born on March
eighth in 2016 by cesarean section after a full term, normal pregnancy. At birth, he weighed eight pounds
twelve ounces and measured twenty-one inches long, which according to the Center for Disease Control
(2000), put him in the seventy-fifth percentile for weight and ninetieth percentile for length. As an infant
Indira, Joshua’s mother, chose not to breast feed and instead gave him formula. As a toddler, Joshua hit
all the important milestones, according to his mother, included learning to walk which occurred around
fifteen months. As Joshua progressed from a toddler to pre-schooler, he continued to progress as he
should with only one minor lapse. When Joshua was three, he broke his first bone. He broke his right arm
while playing behind his house with his dog. Having a cast on his arm only slowed him down and kept
him out of the water, but other than that nothing changed. At four years, he is forty-two inches tall and
weighs around forty-six pounds, keeping him in the same percentiles as birth, again according to the CDC
(2000). Most of this growth occurred, as it should, during the toddler years. Even though Joshua just
turned 6 he has hit many of the required gross and fine motor skills according Gober (2002), he can run,
hop, jump, walk up and down stairs alone, dress and undress, use the bathroom on his own. I have
witnessed Joshua running or jumping many times whether it be running to tackle someone when rough
housing, jumping on the trampoline. Going up and down the stairs also do not cause a problem because
Joshua gets plenty of practice with his room being on the second floor. Using the bathroom is a big
accomplishment for him because it took him a long time to matter and has only mastered it within the last
few months. However, he still needs practice skipping and being comfortable using scissors. Joshua is
right where he should be with his physical development.

Cognitive Development
Similarly to Joshua’s physical development his cognitive develop is also maturing at what theorist would
say is a normal rate. Feldman (2007) writes that upon reaching the age of six a child should be rapidly
expanding his vocabulary, beginning to think intuitively but still thinking almost entirely on himself. He
progressed through the building blocks of language beginning with babbling and moving through his first
word around fifteen months and first sentence a little while later. While his mother does not know the
exact time when he started babbling and spoke his first sentence, she does recall however never being
concerned about the development. Yes, his first word may have came little past the time which many
development list call normal, Feldman, (2007) for example, explains that the first word tends to occur
between ten and fourteen months, the extra month did not cause any long term affects. Currently, he is
speaking in full sentences that vary in lengths and purposes. He enjoys watching television shows about
super heroes and if given the chance, he will spend large amounts of time, sometimes up to twenty
minutes, telling his listener all about them. Joshua’s cognitive development in the area of language has a
lot to do with the fact he is inquisitive and seems to enjoy learning. According to Gober (2002) and his
developmental checklist a 6 year old should be able to count and should be drawn to letters and sounds.
Joshua demonstrates an inclination to want to read and will often ask someone around him to listen as he
read to them him his favorite book or play with the building blocks his mom bought him. Additionally, by
playing games like Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders where he can count the required spaces indicating
a beginning understanding of numbers. Another example of a time when I noticed Joshua genuinely
wanting to learn and wanting things to be perfect, another of Gober (2002) characteristics, occurred as he
was picking up game pieces after we finished playing. He spent a few seconds growing more and more
frustrated as he angrily smashed the top and bottom boxes together. Eventually, he got the two pieces
together but not before tearing the corners of them. However, when his mom stepped in and showed him
how to correctly put the two pieces together he welcomed the advice and was then able to properly close
the box. After getting the 6 box together, he started to think of ways to fix the box. He suggested taping it,
and was excited when that idea was welcomed and put to use. This not only demonstrated intuitive
thought but helped him to feel intelligent and begin to learn that it is perfectly okay and acceptable to ask
for help when needed. He is developing cognitively a little more everyday and seems to be on his way to
accomplishing all the key milestones. His language skills are growing each day and he is learning to try
new things on his own with the idea that he can always ask for help

Emotional/Social Development
While his mother was pregnant with him, she stayed away from drugs, alcohol, and other items that
appear to increase the chances or cause social or personality problems developmentally. By doing this, the
result was as expected; he hit all the important points through in infancy and toddlerhood. For example,
he was always able to show a wide range of emotions, classified as a key achievement by Feldman
(2007). He was quick to show observers his happiness, sadness, confusion, or frightfulness. He also
quickly established a secure attachment to his mother, another one of Feldman’s milestones (2007).
Joshua is child who needed and wanted to be with his mother and would cry or search for her as soon as
she left his sight. By achieving both of these Joshua was able to understand that he could trust people,
which allowed him to make the transition from toddlerhood to the pre-school period successfully. As an
energetic and, for the most part, easy going six year old, he is accomplishing many of the expected
landmarks yet needs more time to complete other. Using Gober’s Developmental Checklist (2002).
Similarly, however, he can/will lose complete control of his temper and lash out violently to those around
him. For instance, at a wedding Joshua quickly acclimated to the reception hall and wandered around
making new friends who danced just as wildly as he did, and not caring where his family was or who was
around him. Additionally, making friends with people his age and leaving his parents side happily shows
Joshua is also accomplishing two other benchmarks written by Feldman. Other times, it is difficult for
observers to understand why he is so angry. He will yell mean things at his mother, hit, or throw things at
her saying he hopes she falls and gets hurt. The fact that he loses his temper and becomes mean may have
to do with Lucas becoming frustrated and feeling he has no options but because he is acting violently this
could develop into a big problem when he goes to school. However, it is likely that he will continue to
improve upon this skill as he ages and adds more words to his vocabulary so he can better explain what is
bothering him, before it causes massive problems for him in school. Other noticeable developments,
according to Feldman, are his ability to play with others, cooperatively and the idea that he is beginning
to get a sense of gender. He enjoys playing games with his cousin who is just a few months older and they
will play with cars or whatever suits their mood that day. He will also play board games, such as Candy
Land or Chutes and Ladders, with the understanding that it is not always possible to win. Presently, he is
fascinated with Wonder Woman and when asked why he likes her so much his response was because she
is a girl and has boobs, as reported by his mother . He is getting to the point also, where he understands
that there are boys clothes and girls clothes, last year for example he enjoyed trying on the clothes his
cousin received for Christmas. Yet this year, when his family went shopping and glanced through the area
with all the children’s clothes he had no problem telling everyone which ones were for boys and which
ones where not. Over all, Joshua is where he needs to be and he will continue to improve and grow
socially and emotionally developmental wise.
 Section B
I. Identify and briefly describe four (4) negative qualities and four (4) positive qualities
displayed by the child under study.

Four negative qualities that was displayed were:

 Anger management
 Likes to his way all the time
 Unacceptable behaviour towards his mother
 Can be greedy and doesn’t like to share at times.

Four positive qualities that was displayed were:

 He always welcome and takes advices
 He has a good sense of humour
 He likes to help people around him
 He is very friendly

ii. From the deeper conversations you have had with the child’s parents and teachers and your
Personal observations, describe one contributing factor for each:

Positive Quality:
One reason why Joshua is so welcoming and takes advice is because although he lives sometimes with his
mother and sometime with his father and grandparents he was brought up in a loving and caring home
and was taught at early age why it’s important to listen to his elders.

Negative Quality:
Joshua has a difficult time sharing his toys and can be greedy at times because he was always used to
being an only child and his family gave him a lot of privileges, and he's having difficulty adjusting to
having a sibling now.
(iii). Describe the possible need of the child that is connected to each negative behaviour of the
Child as listed at Section B (i)
 Needs to be thought how to control his anger or visit a therapist
 Needs to be given advise and talk to understand that he can’t always get his way
 Learn and be reprimanded when he express an unacceptable behaviour towards his mother
 Given moral talks to explain why we must share our toys and not be greedy

(iv) Discuss two positive measures can be used to meet two of the needs identified at Section
B(i).
Two possible measures that can be used is having the child visit a therapist where he will be
counselled on how to handle his anger and learn other ways we can express our emotion and how
we are feeling, another way is for both mother and father to come together and work to improve
their child’s negative quality and share how he behaves.

(vii) Suggest two ways to continue reinforcing the positive qualities displayed by the child.

Two ways in which we can continue to reinforce the positive qualities displayed are by:
 Rewarding him with either something tangible or praises
 Continue to small talks with him and encourage him to always be the best person.

(viii) Briefly describe two methods of teaching that you can employ to get all students (with
different abilities and learning styles) to grasp the concepts during

Two methods that a teacher can use are:

 Verbal support- teachers can identify different learning abilities and adapt their vocal
explanations and support to different academic levels. Using targeted questioning can produce
different responses in pupils of different learning profile.
 Digital resources- by using interactive tools and digital applications, mixed ability classes get the
opportunity to approach a topic or subject from different angles.