Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

Tamag, Vigan City
2700 Ilocos Sur

College of Teacher Education

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BECED II

Observation

Presented to

Dr. Leilanie Raquepo

Collage of Teacher Education

University of Northern Philippines

Tamag, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

In Partial Fulfilment

of the Requirements for the Subject

Guiding Children’s Behavior and Moral Development

By:

Fregy Anne Balanza

(BECEd-II)
Observe a child at home or in your neighbourhood. Based on the 9 characteristics of
temperament, describe the child’s temperament.

Temperament has been defined as constitutionally based individual differences in emotional,

motor, and attention reactivity, and self-regulation. Reactivity refers to the excitability, responsiveness,
and arousability of behavioral and physiological systems. It can be measured in the latency, intensity, and
duration of children's emotional, motor, and attention reactions to arousing events (Berk, 2008).

Temperament is a person’s basic nature or natural way of being. Learning about temperament can
help you understand and explain a child’s behavior, which in turn can lead to more responsive,
individualized care for infants and toddlers. It takes time to learn about an individual’s temperament.
Observing during daily care routines and play, and communicating with families, can help teachers learn
about each child’s unique temperament and find ways to support the child. Each person is born with a
certain temperament that is expressed through the way he or she feels about, approaches, and reacts to
interactions and experiences in the world (Thomas & Chess, 1977). 

Early in the morning, when I am going to fetch water, I saw my second cousin, a 3-year old boy,
playing alone inside the basin with his toys in front of their house. I tapped his shoulder to tell him that it
was so hot in his place but he was just angry. So I just let him be. He is easily distracted from something
that he is doing, that’s why when he started playing alone, they don’t mind it anymore as long as nothing
bad happens to him. When I go back, he is carrying the basin and moved under the mango tree. He just
continued playing alone with his toys. Minutes ago, he was no longer with his place and when he returns,
he was already holding a banana, he was just hungry. He was not satisfied with 1 banana so he go back to
get another banana, but he did not go back under the mango tree, rather, he is now with my sister in front
of our house. So I went with them, he offered me one banana and told me to open the other one for him.
After eating I told him to put the banana peel on the trashcan and he did it.

In the afternoon, he went again with me in our house. I requested him to sing and dance. So he
did the “baby shark”. I also ask questions like what’s his name, when he no longer know the answer, I just
tell him because my cousin knows already for example, my name is, I live in, I am 4 years old something
like that. So I can see in him that he is an active child because he knows how to interact with anyone. He
just easily distracted but he always respond when someone is talking to him and for short he is a friendly
boy.

Early socialization of caregivers, family, teachers and their children and especially the use of the
affective tone in these relationships have a very profound effect on the child’s developmental process. A
caregiver influences a child’s developmental process by helping the child learn how to take charge of
their behaviours and talk about their emotions. A child will develop more functional social and emotional
interactions with his or her peers if a caregiver appropriately responds to a child’s emotional needs.