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Report RE: planning and assessment in childcare settings-can anyone help
Original Post
RE: planning and assessment in childcare settings-can anyone help - 03-04-08 20:34
by: joshuajones
You are absolutely right, planning, observation, assessment and evaluation is essential to plan for developing and supporting a child's learning. And as a student I am sure you had plenty of time to do it.
But Hey, join the real world, Nursery Nurses unlike Teachers very rarely if ever get time out to plan, evaluate etc etc, most will take work home. Most will do as much as they can to ensure childrens needs are met, and planned for effectively, and they will have to prove to Ofsted that they do it.
That said, one planned/focus activity a week does seem a little sparse, we do at least one a day irrespective of whether the child is part time or full time. We plan for B23 and Foundation stage at the moment, and evaluation of activities is usually done on the hoof as we go along.
In an ideal world all you say would be done, unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world.