Laser Lessons - Lesson

Be able to practice as a reflective Early Years Practitioner

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Complete the following sentence. To benefit from your reflections on practice you need to be…

Kind

Well trained

Thick skinned

Honest

Drag and drop the items into the correct order.

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Plan
Identify
Act
Measure

What are some of the ways you can act on your skills gap? Choose 3 answers.

Do an online short course on ‘Autism awareness’

Ask a junior colleague to shadow you

Attend a workshop on leadership in the early years

Subscribe to an early year’s magazine

Apply for a different job

What are two SEND funds in the UK?

Disability access fund (DAF)

Special educational needs (SEN) inclusion fund

Care to Learn

Financial support for further education

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Think And Challenge

Think about a time when you have been asked to prepare and carry out an outdoor art activity with a group of young children of mixed abilities. Two children in the group have English as an Additional Language, one child has a moderate visual impairment, and one child has a club foot (talipes). 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.

Maybe you had too many children at a time
Maybe you didn’t make the activity as inclusion as you could have
Maybe some of the children enjoyed it more than others
Maybe you had not thought about how to calmly and appropriately end the session
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 place?

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.