PREPARING YOUR EARLY YEARS PLACEMENT 1 FILE Please tick each section when completed and seek your setting based mentor’s signature. All documentation used for assessment and evidence should be anonymised to protect children’s confidentiality. Please use a code or letter to refer to children in planning. Please seek professionals’ permission to include their names in evidence or a suitable code instead. Section Completed Comments In the front of your file: This placement booklet Contents page – and/or carefully labelled dividers Background Information C T E , During first week Curriculum notes Information about the cohort/group Tasks, Reflections and Setting based mentor meetings At the end of each week you should complete a fairly detailed summative 7 formal meetings reflection of your achievements. Record during this placement. these on the ERPD. NB Daily evaluations will generally be on the session plans Assessment records and pupil profiles Identify three profile children (a range of developmental ages and phases). During Identify during first two weeks. weeks 4-10, keep notes on the 7 areas of the EYFS in detail. 6. Sessions observations Completed observations of setting based mentor and other practitioners. Start during first two Session observations of you – again filed as weeks, but ongoing. appropriate and cross referenced between files when relevant. NB This is where mentor feedback & observations of you should be filed. Trainee Profile completed prior to Update at prior to placement. mentor meeting and Professional development tasks planned annotate during using document. discussion. Learning and Teaching Portfolio File Tasks to complete identified. Plan of action on how to develop academic Review at each setting study during placement. mentor meeting. Personal targets (3 actions)
PREPARING YOUR EARLY YEARS PLACEMENT 1 FILE Please tick each section when completed and seek your setting based mentor’s signature. All documentation used for assessment and evidence should be anonymised to protect children’s confidentiality. Please use a code or letter to refer to children in planning. Please seek professionals’ permission to include their names in evidence or a suitable code instead. Section Completed Comments In the front of your file: This placement booklet Contents page – and/or carefully labelled dividers Background Information Curriculum notes Information about the cohort/group During first week Tasks, Reflections and Setting based mentor meetings At the end of each week you should complete a fairly detailed summative reflection of your achievements. Record these on the ERPD. NB Daily evaluations will generally be on the session plans 7 formal meetings during this placement. Assessment records and pupil profiles Identify three profile children (a range of developmental ages and phases). During weeks 4-10, keep notes on the 7 areas of the EYFS in detail. Identify during first two weeks. 6. Sessions observations Completed observations of setting based mentor and other practitioners. Session observations of you – again filed as appropriate and cross referenced between files when relevant. NB This is where mentor feedback & observations of you should be filed. Start during first two weeks, but ongoing. Trainee Profile completed prior to placement. Professional development tasks planned using document. Update at prior to mentor meeting and annotate during discussion. Learning and Teaching Portfolio File Tasks to complete identified. Plan of action on how to develop academic study during placement. Personal targets (3 actions) Review at each setting mentor meeting. T C E ,
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