The educator observed two children, Paul and Alexandra, playing with toys on the alphabet carpet. Paul tried to crawl over to Alexandra and grabbed her hair, then Alexandra did the same to Paul. The educator used direct guidance by telling them "gentle touching" but then physically removed Paul from Alexandra and redirected him with his toy. Paul crawled back to Alexandra and pulled her hair again. In the future, the educator will try to redirect the children with similar toys in the same space instead of physically removing one of them.

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REFLECTIVE PRACTICE GUIDANCE LOGS
DATE:Monday April2nd2012Guidance Strategy Used: Direct Guidance,
redirect guidance.
OBSERVATION
(Observe, identify the problem, examine the context of the problem)
On Monday April 2nd
2012 there was a boy named Paul who was and girl named Alexandra who was
were playing on the alphabet carpet. Alexandra was playing with a shaker and Paul was chewing on a
string from a musical toy caterpillar. Paul heard the sound of Alexandra toy so he turned around and
tried to crawl over, he then looked at Alexandra and babbled with her. Alexandra reached over to Paul
face and grabbed his cheeks then tried grabbing his hair. Paul then did the same he reached to over
to Alexandra hair and grabbed it. I was sitting there with the two children so I had to make a decision
to resolve this conflict.
DECISION
(Choose a guidance strategy from this course that fits with the problem. Clearly state why the
chosen strategy is appropriate for this child/situation)
The guidance strategy I used was direct guidance by saying to the children “gentle touching” and that
did not work so I physically removed Paul from beside me where he could reach Alexandra and I
placed him in front of me by my lower legs. The reason I used this guidance strategy is because of the
age of the infants if I say “gentle touching to them they will stop and look at me but then after they
will continue to pull on one another.
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ACTIONS
(Clearly discuss your actions, the child’s response and the results of the guidance strategy)
The direct guidance strategy that I used was I had to physically reach over to my left and move Paul
to the bottom in between my legs where he could sit so he could not reach Alexandra. I gave Paul
back the musical toy he was playing with before and that was used as a redirecting strategy. After
Alexandra wanted the toy as well because she heard the toy so I got a rattle and shook it then sung a
song to Alexandra and moved my legs up and down with Alexandra on it, that again was used as
redirecting and Alexandra seemed to enjoy this play.

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Reflect
(Specify what went well. Are there some things that you need to change? Why?
STRENGTHS
The strategies that I used which was direct and redirect guidance had worked but when I had
redirected Paul with the same musical toy he had before. He then crawled over and tried to pull on
Alexandra hair but the redirecting it had worked for Paul as he was interested in his toy again but then
Alexandra had gotten interested in the same toy and had stopped playing with the shaker she had.
NEEDS
Next time I would pay more attention to what Paul wanted for example Paul wanted the same shaker
that Alexandra had and because he couldn’t get it they both started to grab each other and pull each
other hair. I would substitute and give Paul a shaker like Alexandra and try that first rather than
physically removing him.

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Changes
A change I would make to my guidance strategies would be instead of physically removing
Paul I would have tried to redirect him where he was sitting and not move him. The way I
would go about doing that would be singing to both him and Alexandra in the same place and
involve them with a book or shaking rattles.
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