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Originally Posted by sar79
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Hi, a few ideas on monitoring children could be
- The type of observations you undertake in your setting
- The assessments that are made - do you have progress charts or records that map children's development, that you then have planned and unplanned times to evaluate, enabling you to support children's development / be aware of their current stage of development? Assesment frameworks involve methods such as England's EYFS profile, possibly baseline assessments for children entering a new setting, the way a setting assesses development for a possible 2 year progress check, P-scales are another method that may be used to assess the development of children with learning difficulties. Other materials from Early Support might be used.
- Standard measurement - school tests/cognitive aptitude tests that demonstrate a snapshot of children's academic ability or skill at retaining taught information and that might then be used to compare outcomes between a larger population of same-age children. Health programmes that might measure head circumference, weight, height, visual and auditory functioning. Educational psychologists may use reasoning tests to assess an intellectual age in contrast to a cronological age.
- Do you share information with colleagues and parents that enable you to monitor children - maybe a parent pops in to explain they're concerned their child might be feeling a little poorly one morning, a colleague lets you know how they saw a child achieve a milestone in their development.
If you have access to a handbook there are sections in each that support this knowledge.
Activity planner - planning creative physical other area of learning observation
Development plan for observing & assessing individual children
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Level 3 CYPW learner handbook on amazon.co.uk