Observations support practitioners to decide where children are in their learning and development and to plan what to do. This is an important part of daily practice in any setting, regardless of the age of the baby or child. Looking, listening and noting are important because it helps the practitioner to get to know a child better and develop positive relationships with children and their parent. It also ensures the practitioner to make informed decision about the child’s progress and plan future steps to meet their development and learning needs. Good planning is the key to making children’s learning successful. It helps practitioners to build up knowledge about how individual children learn and make progress. There will be at a point when practitioner may need to share information with other practitioner because they the key practitioner is going away for some time so the practitioner will need to share information to maintain development of the key child. It is important that practitioner remain confident that the child’s personal information is kept safe and secure and the practitioners maintain the privacy rights of the individual whilst sharing information to deliver better
Observations support practitioners to decide where children are in their learning and development and to plan what to do. This is an important part of daily practice in any setting, regardless of the age of the baby or child. Looking, listening and noting are important because it helps the practitioner to get to know a child better and develop positive relationships with children and their parent. It also ensures the practitioner to make informed decision about the child’s progress and plan future steps to meet their development and learning needs. Good planning is the key to making children’s learning successful. It helps practitioners to build up knowledge about how individual children learn and make progress. There will be at a point when practitioner may need to share information with other practitioner because they the key practitioner is going away for some time so the practitioner will need to share information to maintain development of the key child. It is important that practitioner remain confident that the child’s personal information is kept safe and secure and the practitioners maintain the privacy rights of the individual whilst sharing information to deliver better