Explain Why It Is Important To Meet Practitioners Needs

It is essential for practitioners to be aware of children’s care and learning needs within a setting, there are numerous reasons for this. Primarily, it is to encourage ‘development’. A few children may develop and learn quicker than others but as practitioners it is somewhat our responsibility to make sure that all children’s needs are cared for despite what stage of development/growth they are at. This can be done, by carrying out observations; these will support us to distinguish the ‘exact’ learning needs of children. Observations show us evidently what stage of development each individual child is at. Practitioners are then able to associate each child against milestones for their age and then they can begin to plan to meet the learning needs of particular children who are not able to meet their milestones and as well as that they can plan to accommodate for those children who are outclassing there milestones.
Having more hands around the setting will benefit the children significantly so it is vital to plan how many staff/adults are present for particular days/activities, this way practitioners will have a better chance of meeting all of the children’s needs. For instance, in my placement I’m working alongside a year one class where there is a teacher and a classroom assistant. For this age range of children the additional support is particularly significant as the children’s care and learning needs are higher than a child in year 6 e.g. toileting; a year 1 child would need more support than a child in the higher year group. Subsequently if a teacher is showing care for a child who has had a ‘toileting accident’ it is vital to have a classroom assistant so that the other children are overseen and not left along, furthermore it will mean their needs are also