Explain Why The Early Years Practitioner Should Listen To Children's Views And Value
Unit 1 Assignment An Introduction to Working with Children
E1 – Describe Three (3) different types of settings which provide care & education for children in your area. This must include One (1) example from the following:
Statutory sector – Primary school, nursery school, secondary school
Voluntary sector – Playgroup, Brownies/ Scouts
Private sector – Private Day Nursery, Private school, Out of School Club
E2 – Describe how EACH of the types of settings identified in E1 aims to support children and their families
You are asked to describe – give detailed and clear knowledge to demonstrate your understanding of the services and the support they provide to both the child and the family.
Ensure information is accurate, use professional …show more content…
terms where you can. Think – have you included any references to support your ideas?
E3 - Describe the main legislation in your country that supports the rights of children
Give 3 examples and provide the full title and date for each one also, provide a description of how each one supports the rights of children.
Examples could be - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children Act, Human Rights Act
E4 – Describe the recognised principles and values that underpin working with children.
Use the CACHE statement of values and select 3 Principles and Values that you can then describe, consider how they support your work with children/why they are important?
E5 – Explain the importance of valuing and respecting all children in the setting
Write a paragraph on why it is important to value and respect all children in the setting. Consider the benefits to the child and the family and recognise that you avoid making assumptions about children and their families. Include – Diversity, Inclusive Practice, Differentiation, Recognise and value differences.
E6 – Describe three (3) professional skills that will support your work with children.
Select 3 professional skills and give a description for each one on how they support you as a professional early years worker .Make sure you focus on professional skills rather than just personal qualities E.G. Time management, creativity, Effective communication skills
E7 – Describe how study skills can support your learning during your training.
Select 3 different study skills that you may develop that could support you in both college and/or placement and describe – give detail about how this will support you in developing your skills to support you in college in completing assignments but also in developing your practical skills in placement. E.g. Learning about child development will help you demonstrate knowledge and understanding in assignments as well as completing child observations and providing appropriate activities to meet children’s age & stage of development in placement.
E8 – Include References and a Bibliography
References – these are the quotes you will include in your work to support your understanding, taken from a text book, magazine article, website etc and put in quotation marks to indicate you have directly quoted it - Remember all other work will need to be put in your own words.
You always have to include a minimum of 2 quotes but it is strongly recommended that you include quotes throughout all criteria as this will support and develop your knowledge and understanding to gain the higher marks.
Bibliography – This will be included at the end of the assignment. It will list all the books, articles, internet sites you have used in your assignment, not just for quoting but also reading to give you extra knowledge to support you writing the assignment.
Set out in alphabetical order:
Bibliography - Author, Date, Full Title, Publisher
E.G. Tassoni P, (2009) Childcare and Education, 4th Edition, Heinemann.
D1- Explain why the practitioner should develop and maintain appropriate relationships with parents and other professionals
Consider why it is important, what are the benefits to both children and staff in developing relationships with parents and other professionals? – think who those other professionals may be, Class Teacher, support staff, when will you get chances to communicate with parents – why is it important to keep in regular contact?
D2 - Discuss the characteristics of working in a multi-agency team.
Think who might be part of that multi-agency team – what professionals might be involved in supporting a child and their family?, how and why might they be involved in supporting a child? How might they need to work in this team to be effective e.g. effective communication, liaising with others.
C – Explain why the early years practitioner should listen to children’s views and value opinionsGive reasons - why it is important that you should listen to children’s views? What are the benefits to the child and the practitioner? Why should we value children’s opinions? What does legislation say to support this? Think about the benefits of finding out children’s interests, knowing about their concerns, consider the child centred approach -Why is it important for children to have a voice?
B – Explain why it is important that practitioners understand the limits and boundaries of their role when working with children.
Consider - What might be a limit and a boundary? What is part of your role and responsibility and what must you pass on. Why is it important that you understand this, what might happen if you don’t. Why do you need to follow legislation, policies and procedures. You could include the following
areas:
Confidentiality
Health & Safety
Behaviour management
Child Protection
A – Reflect on the importance of a child centred approach in the early years settings.
Answers should contain a detailed consideration of the importance of a child centred approach.
The ways in which you as the practitioner can provide a child centred approach and why this is important – consider the environment you provide as well as how you communicate with the child?
How do your ideas benefit the child, what will it encourage them to do/develop etc.?
Consider how a child centred approach will support all areas of the child’s development – Physical, Intellectual, Language, Social & Emotional
You could include links to theory e.g. Piaget – find out about what his ideas were about how children learn and consider how this supports a child centred approach.
Research some current initiatives such as the Reggio Emilia approach – What is this and how does it relate to the practitioner providing a child centred approach?
The A criteria has a value of up to 15 marks. To gain the higher marks you will need to include some quotations to support your answers – use the text books to support this. Think about your detail and understanding, have you given examples to support your ideas? -You could link to experiences you have had in placement. Also think about relating to some theory or initiatives (see above). Can you give points for and against e.g. why are your points good/how do they support the child? Against - what would be a problem if this wasn’t in place/how would it have a negative impact?
E1 – Describe Three (3) different types of settings which provide care & education for children in your area. This must include One (1) example from the following:
Statutory sector – Primary school, nursery school, secondary school
Voluntary sector – Playgroup, Brownies/ Scouts
Private sector – Private Day Nursery, Private school, Out of School Club
E2 – Describe how EACH of the types of settings identified in E1 aims to support children and their families
You are asked to describe – give detailed and clear knowledge to demonstrate your understanding of the services and the support they provide to both the child and the family.
Ensure information is accurate, use professional …show more content…
terms where you can. Think – have you included any references to support your ideas?
E3 - Describe the main legislation in your country that supports the rights of children
Give 3 examples and provide the full title and date for each one also, provide a description of how each one supports the rights of children.
Examples could be - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children Act, Human Rights Act
E4 – Describe the recognised principles and values that underpin working with children.
Use the CACHE statement of values and select 3 Principles and Values that you can then describe, consider how they support your work with children/why they are important?
E5 – Explain the importance of valuing and respecting all children in the setting
Write a paragraph on why it is important to value and respect all children in the setting. Consider the benefits to the child and the family and recognise that you avoid making assumptions about children and their families. Include – Diversity, Inclusive Practice, Differentiation, Recognise and value differences.
E6 – Describe three (3) professional skills that will support your work with children.
Select 3 professional skills and give a description for each one on how they support you as a professional early years worker .Make sure you focus on professional skills rather than just personal qualities E.G. Time management, creativity, Effective communication skills
E7 – Describe how study skills can support your learning during your training.
Select 3 different study skills that you may develop that could support you in both college and/or placement and describe – give detail about how this will support you in developing your skills to support you in college in completing assignments but also in developing your practical skills in placement. E.g. Learning about child development will help you demonstrate knowledge and understanding in assignments as well as completing child observations and providing appropriate activities to meet children’s age & stage of development in placement.
E8 – Include References and a Bibliography
References – these are the quotes you will include in your work to support your understanding, taken from a text book, magazine article, website etc and put in quotation marks to indicate you have directly quoted it - Remember all other work will need to be put in your own words.
You always have to include a minimum of 2 quotes but it is strongly recommended that you include quotes throughout all criteria as this will support and develop your knowledge and understanding to gain the higher marks.
Bibliography – This will be included at the end of the assignment. It will list all the books, articles, internet sites you have used in your assignment, not just for quoting but also reading to give you extra knowledge to support you writing the assignment.
Set out in alphabetical order:
Bibliography - Author, Date, Full Title, Publisher
E.G. Tassoni P, (2009) Childcare and Education, 4th Edition, Heinemann.
D1- Explain why the practitioner should develop and maintain appropriate relationships with parents and other professionals
Consider why it is important, what are the benefits to both children and staff in developing relationships with parents and other professionals? – think who those other professionals may be, Class Teacher, support staff, when will you get chances to communicate with parents – why is it important to keep in regular contact?
D2 - Discuss the characteristics of working in a multi-agency team.
Think who might be part of that multi-agency team – what professionals might be involved in supporting a child and their family?, how and why might they be involved in supporting a child? How might they need to work in this team to be effective e.g. effective communication, liaising with others.
C – Explain why the early years practitioner should listen to children’s views and value opinionsGive reasons - why it is important that you should listen to children’s views? What are the benefits to the child and the practitioner? Why should we value children’s opinions? What does legislation say to support this? Think about the benefits of finding out children’s interests, knowing about their concerns, consider the child centred approach -Why is it important for children to have a voice?
B – Explain why it is important that practitioners understand the limits and boundaries of their role when working with children.
Consider - What might be a limit and a boundary? What is part of your role and responsibility and what must you pass on. Why is it important that you understand this, what might happen if you don’t. Why do you need to follow legislation, policies and procedures. You could include the following
areas:
Confidentiality
Health & Safety
Behaviour management
Child Protection
A – Reflect on the importance of a child centred approach in the early years settings.
Answers should contain a detailed consideration of the importance of a child centred approach.
The ways in which you as the practitioner can provide a child centred approach and why this is important – consider the environment you provide as well as how you communicate with the child?
How do your ideas benefit the child, what will it encourage them to do/develop etc.?
Consider how a child centred approach will support all areas of the child’s development – Physical, Intellectual, Language, Social & Emotional
You could include links to theory e.g. Piaget – find out about what his ideas were about how children learn and consider how this supports a child centred approach.
Research some current initiatives such as the Reggio Emilia approach – What is this and how does it relate to the practitioner providing a child centred approach?
The A criteria has a value of up to 15 marks. To gain the higher marks you will need to include some quotations to support your answers – use the text books to support this. Think about your detail and understanding, have you given examples to support your ideas? -You could link to experiences you have had in placement. Also think about relating to some theory or initiatives (see above). Can you give points for and against e.g. why are your points good/how do they support the child? Against - what would be a problem if this wasn’t in place/how would it have a negative impact?