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CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency Student Name: XXXXXX Student Number: XXXXXX Assessment number: 31879/02 All terms mentioned in this text that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalised. Use of a term in this text should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. © Open Colleges Pty Ltd, 2014 All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. File naming Once you feel confident that you have covered the learning materials for this unit, you are ready to attempt this assessment. To help Open Colleges manage your assessment, please use the following file-naming convention: [student number]_[assessment]_[assessment number].doc for example 12345678_21850a_01.doc. Assessment submission When you are ready to submit your assessment, upload the file in OpenSpace using the Assessment Upload links in the relevant Module of your course. If you need further assistance, the Student Lounge provides a ‘Quick Guide to Uploading Assessments’. Uploading assessments in OpenSpace will enable Open Colleges to provide you with the fastest feedback and grading for your assessment. It is important that you keep a copy of all electronic assessments submitted to Open Colleges. Open Colleges CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency Page 1 of 6 Getting started The assessment tasks for this unit have been designed to allow you to provide evidence that demonstrates your competence in the unit CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency. Your trainer will: · answer any questions that you might have about the assessment · assess your competence as required by the unit of competency, by making judgments about the evidence you have presented in line with the rules of evidence: validity, authenticity, currency and sufficiency · provide feedback on the outcomes of the assessment process. Introduction You are required to complete an online quiz and a project for CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency. In completing the final assessments, you will show evidence of your ability to: · establish a learning environment that reflects children’s interests · provide opportunities that stimulate learning and development · design, implement and evaluate learning experiences for children · support children to participate. Assessment number Assessment deliverables 31879/01 Online quiz 31879/02 Project 31879/02 Project Student instructions To complete this assessment task, you need to create a portfolio that provides information to guide improvements to an early childhood education and care service to promote children’s agency. To guide the development of your portfolio, consider this scenario: You are working for a service in your local community that is staffed by caring, responsible educators committed to providing the best possible opportunities for the children in their care. However, the service’s physical environment is old, outdated and in need of improvements. A common topic in staff meetings is the lack of resources and the inflexibility of the environment. Recently you have received the good news that the service has received a community grant. After a lively staff meeting that involved community members, family representatives, and feedback from the children at the service, it is decided to put the grant towards upgrading the learning environment for children. The service director wants the learning environments to reflect best practice standards and requirements and to focus on expressing the service philosophy. You have been asked by the service director to put together a portfolio of information to contribute to planning for improvements. You are interested in and have done a lot of research online about current trends and ideas about designing learning environments and promoting children’s agency. With this in mind, you excitedly get to work. Your portfolio will be presented for discussion at a stakeholder meeting, so it needs to be clear, easy to read and professionally presented. Steps for completing this Project For this project, use the scenario above as the basis for your fictional portfolio. Put together a portfolio of documents that guides the service, outlined in the scenario above, to encourage children’s agency through improvements to the learning environment. You can make this portfolio as creative as you wish, but keep in mind that the intended audience is a wide range of stakeholders - including community members, families, colleagues and children. Your portfolio can be a combination of written documents and images. Your portfolio must address the following elements: a) describes your approach to promoting children’s agency including short quotations from: · the National Quality Standards · the National Quality Framework · two relevant secondary sources (e.g. early childhood expert articles). b) provides a short description of intentional teaching and how this promotes children’s agency c) describes two indoor learning environments that are vibrant, flexible and support children’s learning and sense of agency d) describes two outdoor learning environments that are vibrant, flexible and support children’s learning and sense of agency e) provides a list of resources and materials to stock each learning environment, specifically focusing on materials that are natural and familiar f) provides a description of how these environments are flexible enough to respond to the interests and abilities of a wide range of children g) provides a description of how your portfolio could be presented so that it is appropriate for all stakeholders including children. For some inspiration on learning environments that promote children’s agency, take a look at the following design proposal: Ponti, G 2008, A flexible school for early childhood education in Italy, PEB Exchange, http://www.oecd.org/italy/40802232.pdf Open Colleges CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency Page 6 of 6