Delving deeper into documenting and assessing children’s learning

This course expands on the ideas and concepts outlined in the introductory course, ‘Documenting and assessing children’s learning with Dr Anne Kennedy’. It is highly recommended—though not essential—that you complete the introductory course before starting this course, which delves deeper into the topic.

This course will help you learn a variety of strategies and new ways to document and assess children’s learning. You will understand the importance of documentation and how it is essential to driving children’s learning and high-quality educational programs.

You will hear from services about the methods and strategies they use when documenting and assessing children’s learning, and you will be invited to reflect on and consider your own practice moving forward. You will also be encouraged to consider research, theory and practice in your work and how this underpins children’s learning and development. The planning cycle—which is the foundation of the educational program, future planning and each child’s learning and development—will also be explored in depth.

In this course you will:

• uncover some of the many layers of documenting and assessing children’s learning
• unpack the planning cycle
• understand why quality observations matter
• explore critical reflection and documentation on a deeper level
• learn ways to include the perspectives of children and families in documentation and assessment.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

This course also includes digital access to three ECA Box of Provocations cards.