How Teachers Can Observe Children at School: from Naïve Approaches to Expert Competencies

In training students of Infant and Primary Education programs at the University of Macerata, we designed a Workshop for Observing Children at School. The participants to the Workshop were asked to look at different videos in which children doing things at school were taped, then writing down observational written reports. From the beginning to the end of the Workshop, differences were identified in the observational texts, moving from deterministic approaches of explanation to probabilistic attitudes to comprehend children’s behaviours. Prob-abilistic approaches are as well stated as the most suitable in the current century, within the field of Developmental and Educational Psychology.