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THEORY TO PRACTICE: EDUCATION AND CARE FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS

Assessment Task: Portfolio of Planning Cycle - ON PLACEMENT

Learning Outcomes

Understand and apply historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives of infant and toddler learning and development including contexts of infant and toddler Early Childhood Education and Care

Critically reflect on the philosophies of learning and teaching for infants and toddlers in early childhood settings to develop your approach to working with infants and toddlers

Demonstrate the ability to engage in the planning cycle that includes to observe, document, develop, implement, evaluate and reflect upon an appropriate early childhood educational program for infants and toddlers to understand children's learning

Critically analyse the role of the environment, teacher attributes and capabilities, and regulations in enhancing quality education and care for infants and toddlers. Get expert-level assignment help in any subject.

Rationale

Early childhood teachers must have the ability to engage in the planning cycle that includes observing, documenting, planning, implementing, evaluating and reflecting as part of curriculum decision making in the infant and toddler context. All curriculum decisions early childhood teachers make affect each child in some way (Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2010). Therefore, your role is to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of infant and toddler learning and development while implementing the planning cycle.

Task Description
This Assessment Task has two parts. Part 1 is where you record an observation of a child on professional
placement and analyse their learning and Part 2 is where you develop and implement a learning experience plan and reflection.
Download the Assessment Task 2 Template Students ON Placement found in the Assessment 2 Folder on the Blackboard unit site to complete assessment task.

Part 1: Record of Observation and Analysis of Learning
Choose your best observation from your professional experience documentation for a child or children aged birth-2 years old. You must include one(1) anecdotal record.
Your observation must include:
Child's first name,
Child's age,
An observation that includes a written description of the child's play. This needs to detail what the child/ren did (gesture, expression, non-verbal communication), said (verbally, include direct quote) and engaged with during their play event and in their surroundings. Ensure the observation is written objectively.
An analysis of learning, referencing:
The set text [Sims & Hutchins, 2020],
Theory, and
The Early Years Learning Framework [V2.0], and
Other relevant early childhood academic or professional sources to support the analysis.
Future planning ideas that are based on your observation and analysis of learning

Task 2: Learning Experience Plan and Reflection
Submit one (1) learning experience that you planned to extend on from Part 1 observation and analysis. Your learning experience should show evidence that you have embedded elements of the Caregiving, Responsive Relationships and Play planning framework used by Sims & Hutchins (2020, pp.125-146) in your Considerations section of your learning experience plan.

Reflect and evaluate on the implementation of your learning experience. You must respond to the prompts as you reflect and evaluate on the scenario:
Briefly record what happened when you implemented the learning experience?
What worked well and what would you do differently?
Evaluate and analyse what the child/ren learnt and developed
Future planning ideas that extend on the implementation of the learning experience in Task 2. Suggest at least two future learning ideas.

Within your reflection, make direct links to:
The set text,
Theory,
The Early Years Learning Framework [V2.0], and
Other relevant early childhood academic or professional sources.

Referencing
APA7th referencing format is required with a minimum of 5 references.