Description
Let’s here from Jacqui Ward our founder and Managing Director to tell us a bit more about the course.
What you will learn
Learners will explore:
• knowledge, skills and understandings required to effectively assess and plan for individuals
• how authentic assessment supports individual children’s progress
• what is required in relation to legislative, quality and professional standards
• different approaches to gathering meaningful information about children’s learning, development and wellbeing
• practical examples of what this looks like in practice.
What is included
This course contains 1 module and takes a little over 1 hour to complete. It is self-paced so you can pause and resume in your own time.
This course also includes the following:
– 1 recorded power points facilitated by an early childhood expert
– Handout 1 – Individual planning cycle template
– Handout 2 – Assessment and planning tool
– Handout 3 – Annotated example
– Handout 4 – Individual planning cycle example 1
– Handout 5 – Individual planning cycle example 2
– Handout 6 – Resources
– Critical reflection provocations to scaffold reflection on learning and support applying learning in practice.
This course maps to the following:
Approved learning frameworks:
Assessment and planning cycle
Assessment and evaluation for learning, development and wellbeing
Critical reflection and ongoing learning
Play-based learning and intentionality
National Quality Standard:
QA 1, Standard 1.3 Assessment and planning, Element 1.3.1 Assessment and planning cycle: Each child’s learning and development is assessed or evaluated as part of an ongoing cycle of observation, analysing learning, documentation, planning, implementation and reflection.Element 1.3.2 Critical reflection on children’s learning and development, both as individuals and in groups, drives the program.
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
APST Standard/s descriptors:
1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
1.2 Understand how students learn
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.2 Content selection and organisation
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
3 Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning (all components)
5.4 Interpret student data
7.2 Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
Download Instructions:
The Early Years Learning Hub courses are best downloaded and viewed on a desktop computer. Once your purchase is complete you will receive an email with a link to a single download, so please only click on the link to access the file on the device you plan to watch the course.
