Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify activity and/or program needs of children in outside school hours care
- Collect information about children in outside school hours care through a variety of methods including asking the children
- Observe children to identify strengths and issues
- Use information collected to determine activity and/or program needs of children in outside school hours care
- Identify and review a range of possible age appropriate activities and programs that are suitable to the outside school hours care context
- Select activity or program based on children's expressed needs, organisation requirements and resource availability
- Ensure knowledge of individual children's support and guidance needs is clarified with parents/carers, supervisor and child prior to working with child
- Prepare activity and/or program plan
- Undertake appropriate planning for activities and programs to ensure children's needs and organisation requirements are met
- Plan activities and programs in consultation with children, parents and other stakeholders
- Determine operational arrangements for conducting activities and programs and assess feasibility with budgets and timeframes
- Include appropriate implementation and evaluation strategies in the activity and program plan
- Ensure planning activities reflect accepted good practice and industry standards for working with children in outside school hours care
- Implement outside school hours care activity and/or program
- Implement activity or program according to plan, organisation guidelines and relevant industry standards
- Provide children with access to a range of activities suited to their developmental needs and interests
- Develop flexible implementation plans to suit a variety of contexts and to respond to contingencies
- Adapt activities and programs to changing needs of the group and dynamics as required
- Respond to and manage implementation problems promptly and seek support where necessary from the supervisor
- Evaluate activities and programs in outside school hours care