{"id":2904,"date":"2021-10-06T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:05:12","slug":"observations-reflecting-on-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/observations-reflecting-on-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations – reflecting on practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Observations<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Playing, learning and developing p28- Quality of interactions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Careful observation allows us to interpret children\u2019s interests and provide opportunities to extend their thinking without directing their play. We use a variety of approaches to respond to children\u2019s cues to support development of self-regulation, empathy, confidence, creativity and curiosity.<\/p>\n

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We use observations of individual children\u2019s patterns of play to plan, support, challenge and extend their learning. This enables children to make progress at their own pace.<\/p>\n

Careful observations and effective assessments recognise and promote children\u2019s progress and achievements. Any additional supports are identified, planned for and implemented.<\/p>\n

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How effective are our processes to evaluate children\u2019s development, progress and achievements? How well does this information gathered about children\u2019s progress inform our planning and reporting to parents\/carers and others?<\/p>\n

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Learning, Teaching and Assessment p41 – Planning and assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with parents\/carers, children, partners and colleagues, we gather a relevant range of information about children and their prior learning. We are highly skilled in observing and documenting children\u2019s significant learning and achievements. Together this robust assessment information provides reliable evidence about children. We use this to form a holistic picture of the child and make accurate judgements about children\u2019s progress and future learning<\/p>\n

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In what ways do we use our assessment information to inform planning for children\u2019s learning? How effective are we at involving parents\/carers?<\/p>\n

How robust are our processes for tracking and monitoring to identify children\u2019s strengths, individual needs, or gaps in their experiences or learning?<\/p>\n

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Wellbeing, inclusion and equality p55 – Identifying and assessing learning needs and targeted support<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s individual learning needs are identified early through careful observation and effective analysis of robust assessment information from a range of sources. This includes working in close partnership with parents\/carers and colleagues to take full account of children\u2019s prior learning and needs.<\/p>\n

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QI 2.2 p35<\/strong><\/p>\n

How well do our approaches to profiling develop children\u2019s and young people\u2019s awareness of themselves as learners and support them to recognise the skills for learning, life and work they are developing to inform the planning of future learning?<\/p>\n

QI 2.3 p36<\/strong><\/p>\n

Level 5 illustration <\/strong><\/p>\n

We use skilled questioning and engagement to promote curiosity, independence and confidence and to regularly enable higher-order thinking skills in all learners.<\/p>\n

We observe learners closely to inform appropriate and well-timed interventions and future learning.<\/p>\n

We use feedback effectively to inform and support progress in learning.<\/p>\n

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Challenge Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

How well do we apply the principles of planning, observation, assessment, recording and reporting as an integral feature of learning and teaching?<\/p>\n

How well do we make use of a range of valid, reliable and relevant assessment tools and approaches to support the improvement of children and young people\u2019s learning?<\/p>\n

How well do we record, analyse and use assessment information to identify development needs for individual learners and specific groups?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Observations \u00a0– Supporting your Self-Evaluation Playing, learning and developing p28- Quality of interactions Careful observation allows us to interpret children\u2019s interests and provide opportunities to extend their thinking without directing their play. We use a variety of approaches to respond to children\u2019s cues to support development of self-regulation, empathy, confidence, creativity and curiosity. p29 We …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7767,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2904","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2904\/revisions\/19909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}