Table of Contents

1. Tutorial Video
2. Reading Materials
• Laser Learning reading text ‘Be able to identify your development needs’
• Reflective practice: Part 2’ by Melanie Pilcher on the Teach Early Years website
• ‘Personal SWOT analysis: Making the most of your talents and opportunities’ webpage on the MindTools website
• ‘Eight common goal setting mistakes’ webpage on the MindTools website
3. Presentation
• Click to launch this lesson's first presentation on ‘Self-evaluation'.
• Click to launch this lesson's second presentation on ‘Personal performance and development’.
4. Good Practice Example
5. Good Practice Example
6. Interactive Quiz
7. Evidence Opportunities
8. Extended Learning
• Laser Learning reading text ‘Why undertake Continuous Professional Development?’
• ‘8 Ways to Prioritize Your Professional Development’ from the Mind Tools website. Click on the icon to open the article and read about how learning should be a lifelong activity.
• ‘The importance of training and development in the workplace’ from the Small business Chronicle. Click the icon to read this article.
• ‘The 12 best ways to do on the job training’ from the About Money website. Click to read this article which looks at some of the different ways organisations can offer on the job training.
9. Think And Challenge
• Think about a time when you have been asked to prepare and carry out an art activity with young children. Either in a discussion or in writing, explain the process from start to finish.
  1. How did you plan?
  2. What did you do?
  3. Did it go according to your plan?
  4. Did the children enjoy it?
  5. How did you end the session?
Once have explained this, think about (often we use the term ‘reflect on’) how the activity or planning for it could have been improved.
1. Maybe you had too many children at a time
2. Maybe you had not thought about how to calmly and appropriately end the session
3. Maybe you had not thought about how to clean up the space in the time you had available ready for the next activity to take pace?
• It is rare that there is just one way to respond to a scenario or situation, so do not consider that the responses you have to the above scenario will be judged as right or wrong. Share your scenario with a work colleague or friend and ask them to tell you whether they think you have responded appropriately. Ask them to challenge your response if necessary. You do not need to submit this task for assessment unless asked to do so by your assessor.