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About Holly Cihla
Expertise
I have been teaching junior high special education for several years but am also familiar with high school and elementary special education. I can accept questions on IEP's, accomodations, testing, goals, behavior plans, learning disorders, placement, parental rights, student rights and am mildly familiar with special education students with addictions. I am NOT able to answer questions on hearing or vision impaired, early childhood, or EMH/TMH/CBI cases.

Experience
I am currently teaching junior high level self-contained learning disabled students and have been for six and a half years. I recently worked with teens dealing with addiction. I have worked with children for over 17 years in various capacities and age levels.

Organizations
PBIS- Positive Behavior Interventions and Strategies and Kappa Delta Pi. BR>
Education/Credentials
I carry an LBS-1 lmited certificate for K-12.

Awards and Honors
Honors Student

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Special Education - play and routine experiences

Expert: Holly Cihla - 10/27/2009

Question
Hi Holly,
Please when a 5 years old is engaged in both play and routine experiences.
Do you know one anecdotal record example?
Do you know one running record example?
Do you know one checklist with dated evidence, focusing on at least two areas of development?
what people can learnt about this child in these three observations?

Thank you for your help Holly

Regard Emma

Answer
Emma-

thank you for the question. I am not real clear on what you are asking. I can define those two types of recording for you and tell you what you learn from them, if that will work.

An anecdotal record is a written record kept in a positive tone of a child's progress based on milestones particular to that child's social, emotional, physical, aesthetic, and cognitive development. For example, if the child is working on stacking four blocks at a time, you would sit with a record sheet and watch him with the block and jot down notes on his performance during that play time. You could do this with any milestone found on developmental charts. If you were looking at verbal requests for items, you would keep anecdotal records on the child's verbal progress through the day.

A running record I was only familiar with when dealing with reading. I had to look it up. A running record for behavior follows the following points:

• The observer writes these detailed
descriptions of a child’s behavior as
it occurs.
• The observer writes down
everything that happens while
observing a particular child.
• The language in these records
is brief and abbreviated so that
the observer can record behavior
quickly while it is happening.
• The observer should record only the
facts.
• These records provide a lot of
information about a child because
the observer writes down everything
that is happening, not just specified
behaviors.

I think you would typically use this when dealing with inappropriate behaviors in a classroom setting. At least, this is what I would use it for when dealing with my students. I think it could be used when looking for certain behavior milestones like social behaviors and emotional behaviors.

The last is simply a check list of expected behaviors and abilities that a child would evidence at certain age levels. You can find these online if you search for them. The daycare that my daughter's went to had one of these. They would list certain physical milestones, verbal milestones, and emotional/social milestones and then you had three options: mastered, almost mastered, still learning and not introduced yet.

All three of these can be found online and samples can also be gotten online.

I hope this helps. If not or if you've further questions, please feel free to either write back or contact another volunteer on this site.

Holly

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