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Understand professional practice in relation to the observation of children

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‘Careful observations' by Kevin Harcombe, published by Teach Early Years magazine

Click to read about good practice in observation.

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The Early Years Foundation stage requires every child to have a Key Person who must ‘help the child become familiar with the setting, offer a settled relationship for the child, and build a relationship with their parents’. What are the advantages and disadvantages of someone other than the Key Person doing some of the observations on a child?
Look at how your setting involves parents in the observation of children. How useful do you think parental observations are? How relevant is objectivity and subjectivity when dealing with parental observations?
This article from the Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center looks at ‘Writing objective and accurate observation notes’.

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