Reflective Practice in Early Childhood Education - CHCPRP003

CHCPRP003
Reflect on and improve own professional practice
Theory Assessment Task
Unit Purpose
The assessment tasks within this unit provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate
evidence of the knowledge and skills required to evaluate and enhance your own practice
through a process of refection and ongoing professional development.
Elements
The following elements define the essential outcomes of this unit: Element 1 Reflect on own practice Element 2 Enhance own practice Element 3 Facilitate ongoning professional development
Assessment Requirements
 001: What is reflective practice?
 002: Professional learning.
 003: Lifelong learning.
Required Readings
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In order to complete this unit of competency you are required to access the following key
resources.
Textbook
 Kearns, K. (2014). The Big Picture: Working in Early Childhood Education and
Care Series (3rd ed.). Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia.
Core Documents
 Code of Ethics. (2014). Early Childhood Australia. Retrieved from:
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/
code_of_ethics_brochure_print_2010.pdf
 Guide to the National Quality Standard. (2013). Australian Children’s Education
and Care Quality Authority. ACT: Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved from:
http://files.acecqa.gov.au/files/National-Quality-Framework-Resources-Kit/
NQF03-Guide-to-NQS-130902.pdf
Additional Readings for this Unit
 Giving and Receiving Feedback. (n.d). Rich, P. Retrieved from:
http://www.google.com.au/url?
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 Learning Styles. (2003). Gateway High School, San Francisco, CA. Retrieved
from: http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/gw_learning_styles.pdf
 Receiving Feedback. (n.d). DECD Performance and Development Factsheet Four.
Department for Education and Child Development. Government of South
Australia. Retrieved from:
http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/hrdevelopment/files/links/4_Receiving_feedback_v
2.pdf
 Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework: Practice Principle
Guide 8 Reflective Practice. (2012). Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development. Victoria: State Government Victoria.
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 What is Supervision? (2010). Resilient Individuals, Communities and
Organisations. Retrieved from:
http://www.rico.com.au/training/life_skills/supervision.htm
Recommended Websites
 Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority:
http://acecqa.gov.au/educators-and-providers1
 Department of Education and Training website: https://education.gov.au/early-
learning
 Early Childhood Australia: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
Assessment Instructions
Students are required to provide appropriate responses to the indicated questions.
Assessment Outcomes
The Early Childhood Education and Care training packages are vocational qualifications
that are competency based. For each assessment undertaken you will be assessed as
Satisfactory, Not Yet Satisfactory or Incomplete. Where students are assessed as ‘Not Yet
Satisfactory’ or ‘Incomplete’ the trainer/assessor will provide the student with feedback and
guidance regarding what needs to be completed for resubmission.
Student Appeals
Students have the right to appeal an unfavourable decision or finding during assessment.
All students appeals must be made in writing using the Appeals Form and specify the
particulars of the decision or finding in dispute. Appeals must be lodged within 28 days of
the decision or finding.
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001 What is reflective practice?
CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice
Element 1 Reflect on own practice
Element 2 Enhance own practice
Element 3 Facilitate ongoning professional development
Knowledge Evidence
Question 1
To complete this task refer to (pp. 3 – 4 & 12 – 14) of your reading:
 Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework: Practice Principle
Guide 8 Reflective Practice.
a) How is reflective practice defined in the reading?
Reflective practice is one of the key elements that is essential in the development and
improvement of family and child outcomes. Reflective practice is known to underpin
standards for professional pratice and registration across all the professions of early
childhood. According to MacNaughton (2003), Reflective pratice is an activity of
intellectual engagement that is geared towards the change of the practices through
knowledge transformation. According to the works of Gruska, McLeod and Reynolds
(2005), reflective practice is a continuous process that involves repeated cycles of
examination of practice, adjustement, practice, and reflection of it before making other
attempts or trials. According to Pollard (2002), reflective practice has a wide range of
charateristics that are useful in its definition for proper understanding and applicability.
The characteristics are also useful in the in assisting the early childhood professionals
to have a collective know-how and understanding of what reflective practice entails and
how it can be used for improvement of child outcomes. The characteristics include (1)
active focus on objectives or goals, how to address them, and their potential outcome
or consequences, (2) focus on informed judgements about evidence-based practice, (3)
commitment to the continuous cycle of the monitoring, evaluation, and the re-visit of
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the cycle, (4) responsive, open-minded, and inclusive attitudes, and (5) in-house and
external network dialogues with other professional colleagues. Other additional
characteristics that define reflective practice are the capacity to adapt and mediate from
frameworks that have been developed externally, ability to defend or challenge existing
practices, and make informed judgements. Lastly, the refletive practice reframes one’s
practice with regards to the evidence-based reflections and research-based insights.
b) List five ways reflective practice can help you as an early childhood
professional?
1) Reflective practice gives an allowance for the development of critical
understanding of practice by the early childhood professionals. This helps them
be more efficient and effective through a strong culture of professional enquiry
and critical reflection.
2) Reflective practice allows continuous development of the necessary and
appropriate skills , approaches, and knowledge for the achievement of the best
and positive outcome for the developing children.
3) The development of the knowledge about reflective practice enhances the
provision of best developemental and learning opportunities to the children by
the early childhood professionals.
4) Reflective practice equips the early childhood professionals with ethical practices
and standards required for an effective child development for example, child
right to development and survival, non-discrimination when dealing with children,
respect for the feelings and views of the child, and devotion to the best child’s
interest.
5) Reflective practice enables the development of deeper awareness of beliefs,
prejudices,a values by the early childhood professionals and advance
identification and learning for all possible children vulnerabilities.
c) Describe each stage of the process that occurs in each of the five stages of
the Reflective Process Cycle.
i. Collect information.
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In this stage, appropriate data and information is collected as a foundation for
development of goals and objectives. The information can include demographics and
economic imformation. The collected information is also used in the formulation of
policies that would be used as the guidelines in the conduction of the various
procedures and activities in the earlychilhood education system.
ii. Question/Analyse.
Questions are framed and used to collect information and to identify gaps which need
to be bridged for proper running of the early childhood systems. The framing of the
questions is based on all the aspects of practice involved. The collected information is
also analysed to come up with a clear findings which are used as the guidelines for the
next stage. Additionally, questions is commonly used to challenge the system
expectations and analyse the current practices.
iii. Plan.
Planning involves establishment and development of the most effective strategies and
approaches that can be used in the achievement of the set goals and objectives of the
system or program. The educators can prioritize the long and short term plans of
action.
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iv. Act/Do.
Actions are taken to reflect, analyse, and question the proble at hand.
An individual should have a list of possible actions that he or she should take to handle
the sitautions and activities involved in early childhood more effectively.
v. Review.
In this stage, an individual evaluates to find out whether the set goals and objectives
have been achieved or not. If not, he or she can implement further strategies or change
the plan for an effective achievement of the set goals onearly childhood education and
development. The educators can change the policies and practices for the development
of their understanding of both the external and internal influences.
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Question 2
Reflect and draw on the knowledge you have acquired from the text and readings in this
unit to answer the following question.
Read each statement and identify two ethical values or processes being applied by
the educator, using the bank of options below and give a reason for your choice.
 Respect  Democracy  Integrity  Inclusivity  Justice
 Courage  Honesty  Education  Cultural responsiveness
 Social Responsiveness
Statement Ethical
values/processes
Reason
The educator in the preschool
room intervenes when she
overhears Ellie and Mia telling
Komali she can’t play with them
because she has black skin.
Social responsiveness
and cultural
responsiveness
The educator is aimed
at discouraging social
and cultural
discrimination.
When a heated debate occurs
in a team meeting, one
educator defends the rights of
the parents to make a decision
not to immunise their child.
Respect and
courage The educator
demonstrates
repects of the
parent’s decision
regarding child
immunization.
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