Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Gather and document information about children
- Undertake observations and gather detailed information about children’s learning, using a wide range of approaches
- Ensure the assessment methods and tools used to gather information consider assessment principles
- Gather information and observations over time and in a variety of spaces
- Include the voices of educators, children, peers, families and other professionals where appropriate
- Demonstrate inclusive assessment practices
- Monitor children’s learning and development
- Use information and observations to analyse and monitor children’s strengths, interests, relationships and learning in conjunction with the approved framework’s learning outcomes
- Identify children who may need additional support in order to achieve particular learning outcomes
- Use summative assessment to reflect on children’s learning over a period of time
- Collaborate with families and colleagues to support children’s learning
- Develop a process to ensure that information and observations are gathered and used to inform planning for all children
- Use evidence to inform practice
- Share information appropriately
- Monitor children’s learning and development
- Use information and observations to analyse and monitor children’s strengths, interests, relationships and learning in conjunction with the approved framework’s learning outcomes
- Identify children who may need additional support in order to achieve particular learning outcomes
- Use summative assessment to reflect on children’s learning over a period of time
- Collaborate with families and colleagues to support children’s learning
- Develop a process to ensure that information and observations are gathered and used to inform planning for all children