Continuing Childcare: Assessing Needs and Developing Plans

This is part of a series of non-accredited continuing professional development courses for childcare workers looking to fulfil the CPD requirements of their position. The workbook starts by looking at observing children using a range of methods, each suited to a different purpose.
It then goes on to discuss how these observations, together with information gathered from other sources, can be used to assess children’s development. It looks at both formative and summative assessments.
It then looks at how these assessments can be used to draw up individual learning plans to meet the needs of each child and how all these feed into a setting’s long, medium and short-term plans.
It finishes by focusing on evaluating the effectiveness of the planning cycle.

Content of the course

Topic 1: Observing children’s development
Topic 2: Assessing children’s development
Topic 3: Planning, implementing and evaluating provision

Benefits

Offers a flexible alternative to face-to-face training courses.

Assessment through computer-marked multiple choice tests with feedback provided as a record of completion.

Includes a learning log to be completed with a supervisor to assist building skills and knowledge.

Provides the opportunity to record evidence that could be used to contribute towards an NVQ.