Unit 3 the provision of effective, high quality childcare environments

[staceybaby]

Hii, im doing unit 3- the provision of effective, high quality childcare environments and im stuck on this question!
Describe briefly how each aspect of care or activity/experience meets the developmental needs of the children.
And im also stuck on,
Describe how currently valid research and theories inform the planning and organisation of positive childcare environments.
Any help would be really helpful! Thankyou so much! :).xxxx

[Heidi]

Originally Posted by staceybaby

Hii, im doing unit 3- the provision of effective, high quality childcare environments and im stuck on this question!
Describe briefly how each aspect of care or activity/experience meets the developmental needs of the children.
And im also stuck on,
Describe how currently valid research and theories inform the planning and organisation of positive childcare environments.
Any help would be really helpful! Thankyou so much! :).xxxx

Such a broad subject, if I write a sugestion or two and others do the same, you'll be able to choose.


How each aspect of care or activity/experience meets the developmetal needs of the children.

You could look at health and hygiene for this one - encouraging and helping a young child with their toileting and washing their hands needs.

As they develop, from you helping them undress and lifting them onto the toilet, help make sure they wash their hands etc, as they develop, they are able to take their clothes down to go (but not up), wash their own hands, but need help with turning the tap off and drying their hands.

As they further develop, they can now undress, get on/off the toilet, pull their clothes back up, may be able to turn the tap on and off and get a paper towel from the dispenser. They are now totally independent and go off to the toilet independently. So a two year old child who is 'dry' may well needs lots of help and a 4 year old child needs no help - or a child may be behind or advanced - for whatever reason - illness if behind or forward - from a large family and have to look after themselves.

How is current thinking changing practice?
You could look at brain development and transitions in a child's life. How every child is given a key person to settle them in (and get to know their family etc). You could then write of how your setting settles in a new child or helps a child in the transitional period on first arriving if they have have gone from home to childminder to setting etc