Observing, assessing and planning across the early years: keeping the child at the heart of effective practice

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Venue: NCVO, 8 All Saints St, London N1 9RL

Contact: Sarah Blacker member@early-education.org.uk, 0207 539 5400

Trainer: Vicky Hutchin, Early Education

Cost: Members £125, or with early bird discount (until 23 August) £95

Non-members £170, or with early bird discount (until 23 August) £140

Aims

To ensure that your assessments value children’s all round learning, your observations feed your planning and support children’s progress.
To ensure the child’s achievements, learning and developmental needs are at the heart of assessment processes and pedagogy

Course Objectives

This course will help you:

develop practical skills in observing, analysing observations and planning from what you have found out
examine why observation is so crucial in supporting children’s learning
keep the children and their learning needs at the centre of your practice
find the most effective and practical way to make assessment processes manageable, across the EYFS age range
decide how best to document children’s learning to ensure it is fully used to support future learning
involve parents and the children themselves in all your assessment processes
make regular summaries of children’s achievements and create data
make use of data to improve teaching