Certificate in Child Care: Assessment Task 1 & 2 Solution

This document is a solution to a child care assignment, addressing key aspects of the field. It covers essential policies and procedures for education centers, including health and safety, nutrition, and staffing arrangements. The assignment explores the National Quality Framework, outlining its quality ...Read More

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CERTIFICATE IN CHILD CARE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Assessment task 1
1. The policies and the procedures that should be kept at an education centre are as follows:
 Health and safety
 Nutrition, food, beverage and the dietary requirements
 Sun protection
 Staffing arrangements
 Relationship with the children
 Service management
(Acecqa.gov.au, 2019).
2. Quality areas of the National Quality Framework
Quality Area 1 – Educational program and practice.
Quality Area 2 – Children's health and safety.
Quality Area 3 – Physical environment.
Quality Area 4 – Staffing arrangements.
Quality Area 5 – Relationships with children.
Quality Area 6 – Collaborative partnerships with families and communities.
Quality Area 7 – Governance and leadership (Acecqa.gov.au, 2019).

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3. The principles of EYLF are:
Secure, respectful and reciprocal relations: This principle is states to have positive
interactions with children by being empathetic and understanding their feelings, thoughts and
promoting the sense of well-being of each child.
Partnership: This is an important element in early childhood learning success. It accepts that
children cannot learn in void and says that they must work with families, caregivers and people
in their communities to guarantee that the learning experience of each kid is beneficial and
positive.
High Expectations and Equity: Considering that all kids have the capacity to understand and
develop any social diversity or skills and offer all kids a variety of opportunities for learning.
Respect For Diversity: Show respect and reflect family value and cultural values.
Respecting every lifestyle, every culture and languages, histories and traditions are important.
Ongoing learning: Continue to enhance skills, knowledge and training to improve local family
and community understanding and collect data to support child development.
4 . Pedagogical practices
 Constructivism
 Student centred learning
 Dialogic learning
 Holistic learning
 Enquiry based
 Reflective
 Collaborative

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 Integrative
5.
 The pupil's speech is seriously considered by effective pedagogies.
 Effective pedagogies rely on behaviour, knowledge and comprehension (what educators
understand) and convictions (why educators do).
 Clear thoughts on longer term teaching results as well as short-term objectives are part of
effective pedagogy.
 Effective pedagogies are built on the knowledge and practice of students.
 Effective pedagogy includes teaching to scaffold pupils. A variety of methods, such as
classroom and organized group work, directed teaching and personal practice, include
efficient pedagogy.
 Effective pedagogy focuses on the development and use of conversation and
interrogation in attempt to achieve greater class learning and meta-cognition.
 Effective teaching is comprehensive and takes into consideration the various
requirements of a spectrum of students and issues related to school equity
(earlychildhood.qld.gov.au, 2019).
6.
Age Maximum Child: Staff Ratio Maximum Group Size
≤ 12 months 2:1 6

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13-23 months 2:1 8
24-35 months 3:1 12
3-year-olds 7:1 12
4- to 5-year-olds 8:1 12
6- to 8-year-olds 10:1 12
9- to 12-year-olds 12:1 12
“Staff to child ratio for all type of child care services including Preschool, long day care
and family day care”.
Source: (Acecqa.gov.au, 2019)

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7. Assessment and rating process:
The National Quality Framework (NQF), through its national assessments and ranking method,
aims mainly at promoting continuous quality improvement in early childhood education and care
facilities. The Steps to this phase are:
 Self-assessment and quality improvement
 Notice of start of process (week 1)
 Quality Improvement Plan (week 3-4)
 Visit (week 5 to 8)
 Feedback on draft report (3-5 weeks after the visit)
 Final report and notice of final ratings issued to provider
 Ratings published (Acecqa.gov.au, 2019).

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Assessment task 2
 The main purpose of a children education and care service is to impart knowledge to
children with a view of children’s lives characterized by Belonging, Being and
Becoming. Children are connected to their family, culture, community and place. Their
learning process and development takes place through the relationship, especially with
the families. Family is the children’s most influential learning educators. Children learn
from their family members and adopt their culture and construct identity of their own.
Therefore, the elements being, belonging and becoming gives a framework of children’s
learning process by incorporating the principles and policies as proposed by the National
Regulations (Education.gov.au, 2019).
 Children will experience belonging by knowing and understanding from where they
belong. Children belong to the family first, then, they belong to the community, culture
and place. Therefore their primary development and learning process takes place from
these relationship. Belonging acknowledges the basis of relationships in defining their
identities and understand children’s feeling of interdependency with others.
 The children’s learning process is insisted by several play based learning, through
interactive communication and by social and emotional development. The services are
designed with the aim to provide education to children by facilitating an interactive and
fast learning process (Education.gov.au, 2019).
 Educators when are inclined towards understanding children’s feelings and thoughts and
supports children development by forming a strong relationship through communicating
and developing a strong sense of wellbeing in them. Childhood educators should work in
partnership with their families in order to achieve an improved learning outcome.

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 The children care service will promote continuous development of the children by
incorporating the principles of National standards (Education.gov.au, 2019).
Scenario 4
The learning outcome 1 states, that children have a strong sense of identity. The childhood
educators and care services can meet the outcome by creating and developing a strong sense of
identity among children, make children feel safe, supported and secured and develop their
autonomy, self-dependence and resilience (Education.gov.au, 2019. This can be done by
encouraging them with tasks, to do on their own and providing with a motivating ambience .

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Acecqa.gov.au. (2019). Educator to child ratios. Acecqa.gov.au. . [Online] Retrieved from
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Acecqa.gov.au. (2019). National Quality Standard. Acecqa.gov.au. [Online] Retrieved from
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earlychildhood.qld.gov.au. (2019). Early Childhood Education and Care. Early Childhood
Education and Care.
Education.gov.au. (2019). Early Years Learning Framework | Department of Education.
Retrieved 4 August 2019, from https://www.education.gov.au/early-years-learning-
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