Early Childhood Education Assesment Report

Early Childhood Education 1
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
by [NAME]
Course
Professor’s Name
Institution
Location of Institution
Date

Early Childhood Education 2
Knowledge Assessment
Question 1
a) Objectives of NQF (Guide to NQF, 2020)
1. Ensure that children attending care and educational services are safe and healthy.
2. Enhancing developmental and educational outcomes of children who benefit from care
and educational services.
3. Continually improve the quality of care and educational services provided.
4. Creating a system that ensures that participating jurisdictions and the commonwealth
share responsibilities through national integration in the administration of NQF.
5. Improve the knowledge of the public and information access regarding the quality of care
and educational services provided.
6. Reducing the burden of administration and regulation for care and educational services
by ensuring that participating jurisdictions and the Commonwealth share information.
b) Quality Areas
1. Educational Program and practice
2. Health and safety of children
3. Physical environment
4. Relationship with children
5. Staffing arrangements
6. Leadership and governance
7. Collaborative partnerships with communities and families

Early Childhood Education 3
Question 2
a) Aim of EYLF
Extending and enriching children’s learning from when they are born to when they are 5 years
old and through their transition to school.
b) EYLF outcome (EYLF, 2020)
Children have a strong sense of well being
c) Principles
1. All children have a right to culturally respectful education that maximizes their abilities
and establishes a foundation for the rest of their lives.
2. Children have the right to play and actively participate in activities that are impactful to
their lives.
Question 3
Protecting the wellbeing of children taking action or speaking out in the presence of unethical
practices.
Question 4
Age Sleep pattern/s Needed Hours of Sleep
Newborn  Don’t have regular
sleep patterns
 May sleep between 12
and 20 hours a day
16 to 20 hours per day
3 months  Begin sleeping
through the night
 Others may still wake
up once or twice in
the night
12 to 14 hours of sleep
required per day

Early Childhood Education 4
6 months  Predictable and
regular sleep pattern
12 to 16 hours of sleep
12 months  Regular sleep pattern
 One nap during the
day for 1 to 3 hours
12 to 14 hours of sleep
12-24 months  Regular sleep pattern
 One nap during the
day for 1 to 2 hours
12-13 hours of sleep
Question 5
Sign/cue Possible meaning Appropriate response
8-month Noah has woken
from his nap and is crying.
He has woken up between
his sleep cycles and needs
more sleep.
Recreate his sleep association
to get him back to sleep.
12-month Briony is sitting at
the lunch table, rubbing her
eyes and yawning.
This could be an indication
that she is sleepy.
Prepare her for sleep and lay
her down.
India, a 6-week infant,
suddenly arches her back,
throws her head back and
spread her arms out and,
started crying loudly.
A sign of physical stress.
Hold her in in your arms and
perform the rocky movement
to comfort her.