CHC50113 Early Childhood Education |Preparation for School

Questions:

Identify assessment strategies in relation to current framework

Evaluate the current framework’s assessment process in supporting children’s preparation for school.

Answers:

Identify assessment strategies in relation to the current framework

• This is important for giving proper and timely information to the parents, caregivers, career practitioners and other such people regarding the progress of the child (Elango et al. 2015).
• Assessment is also done through the day to day activities performed by the children. The observer as to make sure that he is observing the children and trying to measure the achievements and the performance of the students. This process also helps them to learn about the interests of those children and the difficulties if any that they are facing in the course of their studies. Conducting the assessments is essential for helping the children in their grooming process especially in the early years of their education. The teachers at the play schools must be carrying on some of the other kinds of strategies in relation to the current framework (McLachlan et al. 2018).
• The teachers or the staffs following the early child education framework have to be keeping in mind that they have to start assessing the development of the child right from the early years. Before the child reaches the age of five years, the report about the overall development of the child has to be prepared and handed over to their parents or to their caregivers.
• The practitioners have to observe the children properly who are aged between 2 and 3years. They have to check and find out the areas of weakness and strength of the children. It is very important as it is only this assessment procedure that will help in finding out if the children have any special needs or any problem in learning. They will also be informing the guardians of these children in getting to know about the overall development of the children (Pianta and Sheridan 2015).
• One important part of the strategy is that the backgrounds of the children both the family and the socio-cultural aspects have to be examined by these practitioners. For an instance, if these children have moved places that are changed their setting from one place to another with the age of 2 or 3 years, then it is likely to have some impacts on the growth and development of the children.
• So, the practitioners must develop the summary of each of these children and then make the efforts for their development (Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk 2018).

Evaluate the current framework’s assessment process in supporting children’s preparation for school.

References

Alasuutari, M., Markström, A. M., & Vallberg-Roth, A. C. (2014). Assessment and documentation in early childhood education. Routledge.

Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. (2018). [online] Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/596629/EYFS_STATUTORY_FRAMEWORK_2017.pdf [Accessed 28 Jun. 2018].