Role of Early Years Practitioner in Child Development

Childcare and Education

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................1
4.1 Discus the role of the early years practitioner when promoting child development in
relation to:....................................................................................................................................1
4.2 Evaluate the role of early years practitioner in supporting children’s holistic development.3
4.3 Analyse how working in partnership: Enhances children’s learning and development,
Values parents or careers’ contribution.......................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Childcare is considered as wider topic which undertakes a board spectrum of professional,
contexts, practices and many more. Moreover, this is an action or competency of looking after
children (Anderson, 2020). Childhood education and care is defined as any regulated
arrangement which facilitates education as well as care for children from birth to compulsory
primary school age that can vary all over the EU. Also, it incorporates centre and family, day
care, publicly and privately funded provision and others. The topics which are going to be
covered in this report are role of the early years practitioner when promoting child development.
Moreover, evaluation of early years practitioner role in supporting children’s holistic
development are describe. Apart from this, analysis related to how working into partnership
maximises children’s learning and development as well as values parent or careers contribution
are also discussed in this report.
TASK 4
4.1 Discus the role of the early years practitioner when promoting child development in relation
to:
Early years practitioners are also called as nursery nurses. They are the specialists who
seek after the social as well as educational development for babies and also young children up to
age of five years old. It plays crucial role and some role of early years practitioner would involve
following responsibilities such as assisting children to learn various competencies, monitor
children’s progress and keep record for sharing with parents, assuring that children are safe as
well as reporting any other concerns and many more. So, the role of early years practitioner
when promoting child development related to some topics are discussed below:
Cognitive development
Cognitive development is considered as development of mind. Among birth as well as the
age of five, babies’ and children’s brain will undergo the essential rapid modifications. Along
with this, children will be initiating to think in a more abstract manner because of development
of its language competencies (Cheng and Hsu, 2020). Accordingly, they will become capable to
know about the topics likes’ norms as well as discuses viewpoint. Moreover, they will also
become capable to focus for enhancing periods as well as be begins to characterised as well as
sort objects as per multiple characteristics. So, in this, the role of early year’s practitioner is to
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