410.3

[dancingfirefly]

Hi all
I thought i was ploughing well through this unit unit this question got me stumped.
3. support colleagues with the inclusion of children and families in the evaluation, as appropriate to childrens age needs and abilities.

or has it just come to me that we get parents to contribute to childrens progress reoport at our 1/2 termly meetings. Encourage staff to ask parents for input, what the do at home? am i on the right lines here?

[Heidi]

Originally Posted by dancingfirefly

Hi all
I thought i was ploughing well through this unit unit this question got me stumped.
3. support colleagues with the inclusion of children and families in the evaluation, as appropriate to childrens age needs and abilities.

or has it just come to me that we get parents to contribute to childrens progress reoport at our 1/2 termly meetings. Encourage staff to ask parents for input, what the do at home? am i on the right lines here?

It's probably just the way the lay the questions down - break it up and you'll get to what you were beginning to realise.

support colleagues - help or encourage them to include children and their parents/carers in evaluation - what you are planning for their learning remembering to keep the age, stage, needs and abilities of a child in mind.

I know it may seem obvious that you do 'support' colleagues, but what with a fairly new curriculum, new qualification requirements, a setting may have a 'die-hard' who won't or can't change their way of thinking - so how has your setting or you taken everyone on this path? Perhaps you have meetings, planning or otherwise to discuss and pull everything apart; perhaps those on more current courses are sharing their knowledge, perhaps practitoners who have very old qualifications are in the processing of taking refreshers?- perhaps they are needing a little persuasion/support delivering the new curriculum? Some may leave the sector if they feel undervalued or overwhelmed and frightened of change.

You've got the rest - however you want to include parents, it may be a chat at the beginning or end of the session, it may be more formal if they have a child with sen and they are included in a meeting at the setting with the senco, area senco etc.
You may send a child's learning journey home for contributions to be added, go through it with a child for them to talk of their interests, they confirm what you already know or they may tell you of a new interest or subject they have discovered. It's just to confirm that none of us bulldoze through only our ideas or that of an adult - they want everyone in a child's learning to be included.