In the developing field of Early Years, it is becoming more and more important for practitioners to have an awareness of the many topics that impact on the provision available to young children. Existing and new initiatives being discussed and reflected upon by the evaluation of article reports and how these topics may impact upon my own practice by using reflection. Module 4FD028. Learning Outcome 1 Key concepts and approaches in Early Years provision and the requirement for quality provision and practice for children. Considering the work of key pioneers and current experts with links to child development theory.
E1 One of the practitioner’s roles in meeting children’s learning needs could be to understand and work with other practitioners and staff. This can help to provide different learning opportunities to individual children because each child is unique as practitioners should take into consideration all diverse learning needs, for example there are many activities that could be changed to suit individual children. The practitioners’ role would therefore be to plan and resource an environment that is challenging and helps children learn in many different areas of their learning. The role of the practitioner in supporting the learning needs of children is they have to complete regular assessments on their development and learning to identify their progress and plan their next steps to help the children achieve further. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), (2012) states that the role of the practitioner is crucial in observing and reflecting on children’s spontaneous play, building on this by planning and providing a challenging environment which supports specific areas of children’s learning and extends and develops children’s language and communication in their play.
• Importance of including parents/guardians in planning. Planning • Current influences on the planning and provision of learning opportunities. • Importance of planning and providing learning opportunities to meet children’s diverse needs. • Plans of curriculum activities • How planned curriculum can promote learning Role of practitioner • The role of the practitioner in meeting children’s learning needs • Reflective account how a practitioner can support the learning needs of the children. After the practitioner know the information and understands it, there next role is too use it to meet the children’s learning needs.
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. Once observations have been made, key persons should then plan for each individual child with the view of building on skills and knowledge the child already has. There are lots of ways to assess a child, these include watching a child and taking notes, taking photos of what a child is playing or something they have made, keeping pieces of work and listening to the children. Following assessments made on the children, staff should then follow the settings planning guidelines, this can be done in a variety of ways depending on what suit’s the setting and the children. For example after doing our observations we then have a planning sheet for each day of the week.
Understand how to communicate with children, young people and adults 3. Understand legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection Assignment coverage |Task name |Learning outcomes covered | |A – Communication and relationships |1.1 explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships | | |with children, young people and adults | | |1.2 explain the principles of relationship building with children, young people and adults | | |1.3 explain how different social, professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships| | |and the way people communicate. | |B - Communication |2.1 explain the skills needed to communicate with children and young people | | |2.2 explain how to adapt communication
2. Cite examples of how language awareness fosters school-age children’s language progress Verbal communication and language awareness is important and it plays a major role in developing their brains, connections and is crucial to development in young children. Daily reading, writing as well as language based plays improve their listening, speaking and language skills and also to help cope with issues such as social or emotional problems. 3. List some teaching practices that foster children’s achievement and some that undermine it.
Unit 136 Support children’s learning and development in the early years 3.1 – Analyse the role of responsive communication in promoting children’s care, leaning and development. Active listening Reciprocal communication Non verbal communication Augmentative communication Gestures, rhymes, songs, finger plays, drawings and representation Appropriate and accurate use of language It is important to know and understand the role of representative communication in order to promote the children’s development. Active listening is not just listening but thinking about what you hear, the use of body language and other signals that are sent out through play. It is important to give time to be able to think about how to respond. Your full attention should be given.
The areas that I have assessed as “good” and therefore need improving are: Enable learners to access resources appropriately – I feel that I need to make more time to be able to show the children how they can get the best from the resources that they have available to them. Whether it be increasing their construction ability with the junk modelling or how they can use the malleable play, I feel
Being aware of the needs of pupils and the level of support they require, whether learning or personality needs. There are many learning activities which require collaboration between pairs or groups of children. It is important that we encourage groups to work together in groups and pairs. Managing behaviour can be a crucial contribution when it comes to learning activities. It is up to the teaching assistants to monitor the behaviour and make sure that boundaries and expectations do not slip.
We would also like to observe the children doing a variety of language and literacy activities and also observe them communicating with other children. We would obviously like your permission to do this. By observing the child we will be able to see if they are at the correct stage of development for their age and if they are not we can work together to help improve their