CHC50113 Early Childhood Education |Preparation for School

Identify assessment strategies in relation to the current framework

One of the most important aspects of the early childhood education and care framework is the assessment strategy.

• 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.

The strategies that are taken by the practitioners by following the framework support the needs of the children for their future years. It is a known fact that the development of the children starts from a very early age. The strategies of the framework are mainly designed for the purpose of creating proper ways of grooming the children. This framework has a very important element that of assessment strategies. This method mainly carries on a process of assessment of the children in a way that would help to gather the information about the needs of children.

It can happen that there are some areas where the children are very sharp and some other areas where they are weak. This will also vary for different children. It can happen that a child is good in swimming, dancing and other co-curricular activities that are played outdoor but he or she becomes very restless when they are asked to do some academics related work within the classroom. This might not be known to the parents otherwise and they might force their children to concentrate on academics. However if the practitioners give them this report, then the parents will know about this special need of their children and will deal with the entire matter with patience and care.

The practitioners usually develop a deep interaction with the children at a very early age and they get to know all the special needs and demands of the children. They also make sure that they are sharing detailed information with the parents so that they have all the details and can cater to the needs of the children throughout all the phases of their lives. They will be creating profiles for each respective child and will create a record for them. This report is very important for the child’s future grooming and development as it will contain detailed information about all their special needs and demands. The practitioners will include a detailed one paragraph summary about the child and will also prepare a targeted action plan to support the needs and developments of children (Alasuutari et al. 2014).

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].

Elango, S., García, J.L., Heckman, J.J. and Hojman, A., 2015. Early childhood education (No. w21766). National Bureau of Economic Research.

McLachlan, C., Fleer, M. and Edwards, S., 2018. Early childhood curriculum: Planning, assessment and implementation. Cambridge University Press.

Pianta, R.C. and Sheridan, S.M. eds., 2015. Handbook of early childhood education. Guilford Publications.

Spodek, B. and Saracho, O.N., 2014. Handbook of research on the education of young children. Routledge.