Understand how to monitor children and young people's development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern
Find out how observational findings are shared with others in your setting.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- ‘Starting out in assessment’ from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
- ‘The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for practitioners’ from the Children’s Workforce Development Council.
- ‘Who’s who in SEND?’ from the Kids website
- ‘SEN support: a survey of schools and college: Research paper’ from the Department for Education
- Use the internet to research the relevant assessment framework for those aged between birth and 19 in your home nation.
- ‘Children and young people with disabilities’ from the Kent Public Health Observatory.
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to open this lesson's presentation on 'Disability and Development'.
- Click on the icon to the left to open this lesson's presentation on 'Observation methods'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read further leaflets on getting to grips with assessment from the NFER.
- This webpage from Lorraine Petersen Educational Consultancy looks at some of the different interventions being made in schools.
- ‘Getting stated with assessment for learning’ is an article from Cambridge International Examinations.
- Find out how observational findings are shared with others in your setting.
- Undertake, with the relevant permissions, an observation of a child showing personal independence
- Click this icon to visit the website of the KIDS charity which works nationwide with disabled children and their families and carers. It promotes inclusive practice and active participation to enhance the development of children with disabilities.
- Click this icon to visit the website of the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (MENCAP).
- Click to read this online article from Teaching Expertise.com about ‘Observing, recording and planning young children’s learning’, by Stephanie Mathivet
- Think And Challenge
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