Elements and Performance Criteria
- Monitor children's developmental progress
- Gather and record information about children's developmental progress
- Follow up with appropriate persons/services, any concerns regarding a child's development
- Communicate information to parents clearly and sensitively
- Use identified strengths to guide program strategies to foster development
- Identify degree of inclusiveness in children's interactions and language and develop strategies as required
- Observe level of problem solving and conflict resolution skills and develop strategies as needed
- Gather information about the child's views and perspectives
- Demonstrate quality observation practices to other workers
- Ensure own observations of children are significant, valid and concise
- Demonstrate clear links between evidence from observations and interpretation of behaviour, needs and interests
- Ensure intensity/detail of observations is appropriate to purpose and context
- Ensure interpretations of observations demonstrate inclusive principles and understanding
- Use information from observations to guide others
- Provide information to broaden the other's understanding of the child
- Communicate information to others to improve their interaction with a child
- Provide information to others to improve program planning and evaluation
- Discuss programs and children's needs based on the information gained
- Work with others to design and develop systematic ways of observing children that ensure inclusion of all children