Maintain and Support Relationships with children and Young People Outcome1: Be able to communicate with children and young people. Assessment Criteria The learner can: Communicate with children and young people in a way that is appropriate to the individual, using both conventional language and body language. There are two ways of communicating with children and young people , conventional and body languages , communication may be formal (adult-led activity) or informal (playtime or social situations). In order to communicate appropriately with any child or young people I need to show that I understand them. Using my body language; eye contact to make sure that I am at their level, try not to invade their space, avoid communication barrier, and ensure that children with communication issues can see my face.
Children can take responsibility for their actions, to feel good about their achievements and understand that their feelings and behaviour are linked. Also pupils know that it is acceptable to have certain feelings and emotions. Managing feelings – Children can become more able to manage their feelings, using strategies to think first before using inappropriate actions. Enabling them to understand what feelings affect others and how to use them appropriately so not to hurt others. Children will learn how to calm themselves, managing anger and aggressive feelings.
; This skill involves being able to recognise when a child or young person is not achieving their developmental potential or their health may be impaired and be able to refer to appropriate sources of help. It is important to identify concerns as early as possible in order to move from intervention to prevention. Children and young people go through a number of stages as they grow. These may include school or family changes and are commonly referred to as transitions. It is important to understand a child or young person in the context of their life and the impact of the transitions they may be going through.
The staff should be aware of the children’s needs, interests, what they like to play with, and provide activities which reflect their needs and interests and support children through group times. Very useful is to help children to know each other and encourage them to play together. It it good to encourage children to try new experiences, to make their own choice of activity and to have responsibility to tidy away. This is making them to be independent giving them time and confidence to do things for themselves. The information should be shared between the whole staff team to ensure everybody
Also a child can tells us some news, or a parent asks a question. A colleague might give us instructions or a visiting practitioner might make an observation. The information you give, receive and pass on will help you to carry out your work effectively. To expressing needs and feelings: children and young people should given opportunities to express themselves freely , also adults need to share needs and feeling with each other and in this way build up a sense of trust with the person they confide in and meet their needs. To sharing thoughts and ideas: If we have ideas, questions and opinions about our work, we should sharing them with colleagues helps to clarify, develop and even change the way we think and act.
What is happening in the child’s environment. It also includes whether the child has any additional needs or which children/people are around the child as the child may act differently around different groups of friends and different members of staff. To assess young children in a setting you follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) the EYFS give guidelines as to what a child should achieve at what age or stage. To find out what stage a child is achieving members of staff, especially the key person, perform observations and record these. These observations should cover all areas which are Physical development, Communication and language, Literacy, Personal, social and education, Maths, Art and design and Understanding the world.
After the practitioner know the information and understands it, there next role is too use it to meet the children’s learning needs. The information learnt could be used when the practitioner is planning, or when they are putting it into
D1 A mealtime routine promotes a healthy lifestyle as it effects the child’s development. This effects the child’s social development, as, in this routine, the carer or the practitioners should eat with the child and talk to him/her. This would increase the social development of the child as the child would be talking to the adults and, if the child is eating with their family, possibly talking to other children. As well as this, if the child is talking about the food they are eating to the adults and the adults are telling the child about the food, the child’s intellectual development will be enhanced as children will gain knowledge about food. Also, if a child is eating with an adult and the adult is eating the same food, the child will look up to the adult as a role model as they are eating the same foods.
When they get it right let them know they have got it correct. If some children are still having difficulty you sound out the individual letters or write
We can identify the children’s requirements, interests, current development and learning. Planning: We plan for the next steps in children’s development and learning. Much of this needs to be done on the basis of what we have found out from our own observations and assessments as well as information from parents. Narrative A method of recording child observations; which is a written description of children's actions as they are happening. The observer will record everything seen and are written in the present tense without the use of jargon.