Early Childhood Assessment and Recommendations

Running head: EARLY CHILD HOOD
EARLY CHILD HOOD
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Child’s profile
Educator: Please insert you own name
Name of the parent: Mr. Smith
Name of the child: Martha
Age: 3 years
Location : day care center
Interview script
Educator: Hello, Mr. Smith, it was wonderful, that you have found some time from your busy
schedule and have come here to share your feedback.
Mr. Smith: I am always concerned about, Martha, about how she might be doing at school, or
how you, teachers might be managing her, she is always hyperactive at home and her grand mom
really finds it difficult to run after her.
Educator: Yes, we are always here and you could have approached us at any time between the
school timings. However, we had been monitoring and assessing each child, to understand their
grievances or presence of any unmet needs. It is necessary for our end to inform the parents, so
that things gets sorted out easily and it becomes difficult for us to understand how your children
are behaving at home or if there are any setbacks for our end.
Mr. Smith: Yes, will definitely keep it in mind. However, you had mentioned that you have
conducted an assessment on Martha. Is there a matter of concern? What kind of an assessment
you have performed.

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Educator: Well. Mr. Smith, it was just a regular assessment, which we randomly conduct on each
child.
Mr. Smith: What kind of screenings you have performed?
Educator: We have used a number of screening tests to assess both the physical and the cognitive
development of a child. I should you that, in order to make a curriculum suitable to the needs of
ever children, we generally follow an ELYF (Early Years Learning Framework), or the learning
outcomes before setting up a curriculum or conducting nay sorts of assessment methods
(Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2017).
ELYF is a learning framework that the government had decided to help the educators to provide
the young children with the opportunities to maximize the potential and develop a foundation for
the future success in the learning. We believe that each and every children has right to have a
better start in life for creating a better future for themselves and the nation.
Talking about the assessment methods, there are a lot of assessment methods like
observing a child, which can be made with minimal or almost no intrusion into the activities of
the child. Again portfolios are often used, which is a record of the data that is collected through
the work that children have produced over a period of time. Generally we use the portfolios to
observe the development of the child for a long period of time (Merrell & Gimpel, 2014).
We had conducted a 6 hours observation on your child for two days. We had recorded
each and activities, while your child was engaged in activities as our school encourages the
children to learn through experiences and plays. We had specifically used play assessment, due
to the fact that the assessment focuses on the child’s strength and the areas of need for the
intervention and can be used to assess the skills in some of the major areas of development