1. Effectively plan for children by developing and critically evaluating diverse practices, activities, and environments to meet their needs.

2. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of indicators and principles of high-quality practice.

3. Interpret and reflect upon professional standards, curricula guidance and theory.

Multi-Modal Visual/multi-modal showcase of practice. Showcase will provide a visual representation showcasing professional practice such as planning, learning activities, resources and/or environments that the student has developed. It is the student’s choice as to how this is presented (could include but not limited to):

- Video
- Sway Presentation
- PowerPoint Poster
- Digital Portfolio

The quality of this showcase of professional practice will be assessed against (LO1 and 2) therefore students will need to convey evidence of how they know it is high quality and effectively meets children's needs.

The Written Evaluative and Reflective Commentary. Commentary is to accompany the showcased practice, critically reflecting upon and evaluating their own example of practice. Students are expected to draw from theory, research and professional standards/curricula to give their reflections credence. (LO2)

Formative assessment opportunities include;

Tutorials for draft feedback

Collaborative opportunities to discuss practice

Discussion and critical evaluation of key texts and documents.

In this module students will continue their high-quality professional development of practice which promotes holistic care and education responding to unique and diverse needs of children. Topics include but are not limited to; principles of effective curriculum implementation, methods of helping children to learn and checking this learning. This module will explore approaches to supporting physical, mental, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing, whilst promoting positive dispositions and environments for learning.

Developing Professional Practice is a showcase of your high-quality practice, rigorous evaluation and commitment to continual improvement for children's outcomes.

This is the step to conveying your leading, innovative and forefront of quality practice to be an asset to any early childhood team or service.



You will consider the unique child and how environments, social and emotional climates, activities, and methods of care and teaching can positively progress holistic development.

The teaching, learning and assessment strategy has been carefully developed for this module. It recognises you may bring with¿you¿practical experience and knowledge of specific contexts to share with others. This pool of practical experience will be used to promote discussion and debate, which will build upon existing knowledge to encourage reflection and critical thought. You will be an active participant in your learning and engage with online learning, some¿face to face¿content, group activities and individual tasks set.¿ You will be encouraged to be a critical thinker and apply your learning in an academic and professional context.¿ Some sessions require prior reading and independent research to inform the sessions.¿

A digitally enabled approach will be used to support both virtual and face to face opportunities.¿¿

University workshops will draw upon your experience and help you to interpret that experience in the light of current thinking on teaching, learning, assessment and schooling in relation to literacy and numeracy. You will also be asked to use the ideas explored in the sessions in planning your future work. You will also be asked to collaborate with others in preparing and presenting your work.¿¿

The methods are designed to provide practical contexts for the analysis of contemporary issues and problems of a practical nature. The following strategies will be adopted to ensure that you have a supportive teaching and learning environment, providing a range of learning opportunities¿¿

Work Related Learning – You will be required to reflect on values, practices, assumptions and work-place policies in your taught sessions. Work-based activities either as class based simulated tasks or in the workplace help students to establish connections between the workplace and issues raised by the programme.¿

Lectures - You will be given lectures which will provide theoretical underpinning on key educational concepts. These may take the form of face-to-face, digital or virtual sessions¿

Tutorials – You will be given the opportunity to discuss work-related and academic concerns in small group tutorials and/or individual tutorials. This will support the development of theoretical understanding.¿

Guided reading and supported self-study – You will be provided with booklists and reading tasks in order to enable you to engage with relevant and appropriate debates.¿

This module will also provide opportunities for you to:¿

Work¿with others¿

develop interpersonal skills¿

demonstrate the capacity to plan, share goals, and work as a member of a team¿

communicate and present oral and written arguments¿

Current UK curricula guidance

Latest professional standards

Alcock, S. and Stobbs, N. (eds.) Rethinking Play as Pedagogy. London. Routledge

Grenier, J. (2019) Working with the revised Early Years Foundation Stage: Principles into practice, [Online] Available at: Development Matters 2020 (development-matters.org.uk)

Early Years Coalition (2021) Birth to Five Matters, Available at: Birthto5Matters-download.pdf

Unless otherwise stated, all books are available online through Staffordshire University library website when logged in using your university username and password. If you have difficulty accessing these, please contact the University library. There is also an online reading list for each module on this course. To access this, go to http://staffs.rebuslist.com/ and then type in the module code in the search box. Do not worry if this list seems excessively long. You may wish to focus on texts which are most relevant to your education sector. This module covers a wide range of texts and you may find that you only need to read short sections of the texts listed (or from other texts that you may find in libraries or journals). Your tutor will also advise you on the relevant texts and sections of texts to read. Remember that it is important to show you have considered views from a wide range of sources. When referring to texts in your assignment, always use https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/refzone for guidance. There are many versions of Harvard referencing systems in use around the world, but for Staffordshire University, Refzone Harvard system is the only correct method to use.

Study skills:

For guidance on academic writing, remember that the Staffordshire University library holds a wealth of resources to support study skills at https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/study-skills. The study skills team can also provide 1 to 1 support

VLE Resources¿¿¿

Your University VLE will enable you to have access to course materials, lecture notes, PowerPoint presentations and reading lists.¿ Your VLE offers opportunities to engage in group work and independent learning¿by the use of¿such things as synchronous/asynchronous discussion boards, video links, blogs and wikis.¿¿¿