Essay about E105 - Tma02

* Ensuring the environment is clean – Although the nursery has daily cleaners who clean the nursery at the end of play and who twice a week carry out a deep clean, it is the collected responsibility of all staff to ensure the environment is kept clean throughout the day. This means cleaning up any mess or spillages using the appropriate cleaning tools and products. The practitioners, along with the help from the children, are also required to tidy away the toys and playing equipment, and wipe down tables before each meal time so the area is clear for the arrival of plates, cutlery and food and drinks. This is to ensure a healthy and safe environment when eating.

My responsibilities as a trainee nursery practioner include: providing physical and emotion support and care for the

This essay highlights and discusses models of disability reflected in two separate articles (Appendices A and B). I will identify the models of disability they represent. Both have been recently featured in the Guardian newspaper and are stories on disabled people.

i) a ‘Performance Assessment’ ii) an ‘Other Evidence Assessment’ (evidence identified from the list below – outputs of work performance)

We believe that in order for children to receive quality care and early learning that suits their individual needs, parents and staff need to work together in a close partnership. The two-way sharing of information is key to this. The nursery team welcomes parents as partners and this relationship needs to be built on trust and understanding. It is important that we, as practitioners, are able to support parents in an open and sensitive manner. The nursery wishes to ensure parents are an integral part of the care and early learning team within the nursery.

In this case study I will describe the observation of a child while applying psychodynamic thinking and theory. The whole observation took place in a secondary school within a 9 week period, one hour every week. However, I was able to observe this particular child 6 times as at the beginning I was given a different child. Due to the fact that the first child was not attending the lessons they had to change him and find me a different one. For confidentiality reasons all the names that will be referred in this case study are going to be pseudonymous. The second child will be referred as Marissa, the Learning Support Assistant (LSA) as Anna, the Inclusion Manager as Alison and the school as Roots. In this observation the main purpose was to attempt to understand the unconscious inner world of the child, the verbal and non-verbal

D2- List two physical and two health needs of children from birth to 5 years

Feels accomplished and valued to work at the early childhood field. Parent’s perspective: The parent is suspicious about the male caregiver and worries about a strange male changing his daughter’s diaper. Child’s perspective: To have her needs met. What are the needs of each individual who is involved in the scenario? Director needs to find methods to help

The teacher was most likely disappointed, saddened and distressed with the children’s behaviour, this is shown when the teacher describes the children as “noisy, crabby, offensive, skulking, smoking, drugging and whingeing” this suggests that the teacher wasn’t prepared for this sort of “behaviour” which is significant as teenagers are normally

5. What are some alternate assessment approaches in professional practice that are discussed in the text? Which of these would you find the most useful?

While observing a child practitioners need to take into consideration the different relationships the child has with adults and children within the setting and in their home environment to gain a full picture. All practitioners within the setting should be involved In observing behavioural issues even if it is not always written down. Practitioners should record significant information throughout the day so that a more accurate picture of a child's behavioural issue is gathered from different areas of a child's day.

| Support children, young people and colleagues to identify the situations and circumstances which trigger inappropriate behavioural responses and ways of avoiding these from happening

This assignment will discuss the main theories of child development and discuss the main principles across all area of development. The assignment will also evaluate an observation conducted on a child and link their behaviour to relevant child development theories. The assignment will firstly highlight some child development theories from behaviourists such as Bandura, humanists such as Maslow and constructivists such as Piaget. Secondly the child’s observation will be discussed and evaluated here relevant link to development theories will be made. Lastly the assignment will finish off with a reflection. Jennie Lindon defines development as” the sequence of physical and psychological changes experienced by human beings, which start with conception and continue throughout life.”(Jennie Lindon 2012:5) the early year’s foundation stage (EYTS) framework states that there are seven areas of learning and development however they view some are more important these are called the prime areas of development. There are three prime areas of development these are: communication and language, physical development, personal social and emotional development. The EYFS also states that “children develop in different ways at different times” (Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage 2014) which is why the development matters promote the message that every child is unique and has their own way of learning. (Development matters in the Early years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 2012)

There were many stories from school practitioners who supported this partnership approach to working with children’s services. One deputy head teacher, cited in the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for practitioners, illustrates this point. She cites the case of a boy whose behaviour gave no cause for concern at her school, though suddenly his academic achievement began to decline.

School introduces many challenges to children which can include, a requirement for more independence, demands on their compliance, forming new relationships, adjustment to a new environment and formal learning. This discussion will consider an article by Liz Bayram (2014), based on research about parent’s anxiety about their children starting school. The article discusses how well prepared children are for school, including how independent they are and their communication and social abilities at this stage. Bayram argues that more needs to be done by schools to help parents and children prepare for school, with 1 in 4 parents saying there is little information. Additionally, the article argues the importance of children’s social, emotional and communication skills, and that regular early communication between schools and parents could help families prepare for these skills which are vital to children’s development in school. In addition, it emphasises the importance of early year childcare providers and states that the reception year is important for helping children to prepare for and adjust to formal schooling. The essay will build upon these claims by investigating the challenges children face at school and whether some are equipped to cope better than others, based on their previous experiences. The main themes of discussion will focus on children’s social, emotional and communication development in middle childhood and school, and how these may affect their capacity to