The new framework has been here for more than two years. In that time, many educators have rethought how they use observations, which had become inextricably linked with assessment, and lots have decided to stop undertaking them.
Before the new framework, it’s true that observations had got out of hand. As a Reception teacher, I spent many hours creating observations for all of the 17 areas of the EYFS for each of the 30 children in my class. It was a huge undertaking, spreadsheets abounded and it was really motivated by fear. I'd heard countless stories of colleagues who had been through moderation where they had been asked to provide lots of evidence to back up their data, or risk having their data changed.
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