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Write down 2 or more questions you have regarding how to use the EYDF when you work with the children in your centre.

Define the principles for quality care and learning practices.

Foster strong partnership and community collaborations.

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1) I felt the guides enable me to gain different insights and perspective as an educarer for care and development of the infants and toddlers in their early years.
2) The guide also supported me with comprehensive information of how to form a better engagement with the infants and toddlers at their early years.
3))As well as the importance of upholding the ethical and professional image and the needs for the professional development as educarers.

Questions of EYDF
1)How to put them into appropriately written lesson plans?
2)How to plan out with appropriate portfolio for the development of the infants and toddlers, as they required more substantial routine care then older kids.

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List down 3 thing you find most useful to you after reading through the EYDF?

Staff- child interaction are respectful, responsive and reciprocal.

Programme are holistic and provide optimal support and experiences for growth, development and learning.

Educarers are professional and engage in reflective practices

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How many different components in eydf helps to build foundation of a child.

It set standard for quality care and learning practices that are specific for developmental needs of I & Ts.

Involving family is important for the developmental of the child.

qs:

How does tones and words affect child development?

As a caregiver what can we do to improve the learning needs and teaching practices at the centre?

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1)The Developing Child
Adverse and fetal can lead to physical and chemical disruptions in the brain that can last a lifetime. The biological changes associated with these experiences can affect multiple organ systems and increase the risk not only for impairments in future learning capacity and behavior, but also for poor physical and mental health outcomes.
The environment in which one develops before and soon after birth provides powerful experiences that in ways that then define how much and when they are expressed. Thus, while genetic factors exert potent influences on human development, environmental factors have the ability to alter family inheritance. For example, children are born with the capacity to learn to control impulses, focus attention, and retain information in memory, but their experiences as early as the first year of life lay a foundation for how well these and other excutive function skills develop.

2)The Involved Family
Many parents and guardians work during the day. Remember that scheduling an open house in the morning or conferences in the afternoon may not be conducive to all schedules. Be open to providing a variety of options to encourage participation from all families. The more flexible you are, the more likely parents will take an interest and attend.

3) Unifying Approach to the Provision of Care, Development and Education
The extent to which individual care and education professionals in these settings can foster greater consistency and continuity for children and families throughout the birth through age 8 continuum depends partly on their knowledge and competencies and how they put these into practice in the settings where they work. However, it also depends largely on whether policies and systems at the local, state, and national levels encourage, require, facilitate, or impede continuity and alignment.

2 Questions...
1)How do we apply EYDF with infants in the Centre?
2)How do we handle children who are aggressive towards other children?

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1) Developing secure attachment and confidence in children with nurturing adults
2) Involving families partners in the care development and education of children.
3) Generating culturally and developmentally appropriate opportunities for children's holistic development and learning in a safe and healthy environment.

2 Questions
1) How to build relationship with child.
2) How to solve for parent requests, questions and complaints.
3) How to calm an anxious child?

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1.   Children develop and learn through interaction with the significant adults in their lives as well as other children. They also learn by carrying out actual tasks. Routines like diaper-changing, and feeding and bath times need not be lost time. These times are daily opportunities where you can interact with babies and toddlers by touching, talking, singing or playing with them. These are also great opportunities to meet children’s individual needs, promote learning, and develop strong relationships with them. Self-control, positive behaviour, social skills, hygiene and specific self-help skills can be reinforced through routines.

2.  Learning to self-feed can be a messy activity. Remain calm and supportive as toddlers’ coordination and motor skills are still developing. Be prepared for the mess as it is part of their learning to be independent. Place a large piece of cloth or old shower curtain on the floor in the feeding area to make cleaning up easy. You can also involve the children in the cleaning up. Self-feeding activity for toddlers can be seen as an opportunity to help them learn and grow.

3.  Infants and toddlers learn through observation, exploration and manipulation of objects and materials in their environment. Children learn about the world by asking questions and making predictions. Materials that are safe and have a variety of uses,  should be made accessible throughout the day. Having a variety of materials can keep children engaged and sustain their interest. These also foster creativity, self-direction, attention and on-task behaviour.

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1. The developing child
I feel that it is important to take note of the childs development as they are growing on whether are they lacking of PIES behind or not.

2. The involved family
It is also important to involve the family by communicating with them on how is the child's growth whether is there anything they need to improve on or not.

3.The professional Educarer
It is also important that the educarer can provide the child with professional caregiving because other than their parents, we are the ones who they look up for the most.

Qns:
1. What is your definition of challenging behaviour and what are the techniques for managing challenging behaviour in the classroom?
2.  How do the parents are able to practice the same method for their child at home that applies from the centre?

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List down 3 things that you find most useful to you after reading EYDF:

1- Definition and clear understanding/ guidelines of 5 pillars in EYDF to the development of child (from 2 months to 36 months old)

a) The developing child

b) The intentional program

c) The professional educarers

d) An involved family

e) An engaged community

2- The desired outcomes and sub-outcomes to determine goals and approaches for child’s development.

3- The suggested practices for all involved stakeholders to follow up.

For early years educarers, we can use the Framework as a tool to make informed decisions and plan developmentally appropriate experiences and environments for infants, toddlers and nursery children. Strategies outlined in the Framework will guide educarers to focus on developing warm and nurturing relationships with the children in their care by responding appropriately to their physical, linguistics, cognitive, social and emotional needs.

Write down 2 or more questions you have regarding how to use the EYDF when you work with the children in the centre:

-Question 1: How to get parents/ families to co-operate in using EYDF to develop a holistic child?

-Question 2: As every child is unique, how we the teachers to understand EYDF and foster a child to his/ her best development’s capacity?

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3 learning points from EYDF.

- Focus on the Child's Development and provide programmes that helps the child's holistic  development.

= If we didnt provide this approaches towards individual child, they will feel lack of self confidence, emotional disorders. It will affect their studies, family and peers.

Maintain & raise professional conduct of services as caregivers

= Improving on care & teaching practices. Deliver high level services to cater the best interest of a child & their family's context. This will determine how much the young children learn from the caregivers.

- Building trust by engagement activities between the stakeholders and the young children.

= Engagement activities with the stakeholders will help the young children to form friendships and good relationships , good communication & helps them to deal with daily challenges. Also, become better in resolving conflicts with their peers.

Qs:

1. Does tone and words impact their emotional development?

2. How to gain trust between the infants and the caregivers?

3. Is planning activity help or encourage individual child to discover new things?

4. Why do we need to support their emotional needs?

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The three things which I find most useful from the EYDF.

1) DESIRED OUTCOME

Explanation: Educarers are encouraged to make good use of the guide to reflect and improve on our own practices

2) PILLARS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Example: To understand how to involve family as partners to care for the children development and education

3) QUAILTY FOR EARLY YEARS

Example : To understand how to develop children's security, confidence and help the children to be safe and healthy

How can educarers guide parents to develop a conducive learning environment for the infants and toddlers at home?

How to help toddlers who cant express themselves well in class or shy to express to their educarers their needs?

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1. The developing child - Focusing on each child’s developmental such as physical, emotions and milestones.

The intentional programme - To bond with each child with fun activities and let them overcome the obstacle and challenges of the programme so that they learn and explore.

The involved family - The involvement of family is important so the educarer and the family have a great relationship in order to help the child’s development at school or at home.

1. How do we create programme to get infants participate and involve?

2.  Does tones and words impact their emotional development?

3. How do we approach a child who is shy to seek for our help and insist of doing something by his/her own even the method of tools that they use is wrong?

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1. EYDF serves as the standard of care for a holistic education from 2 months to 3 years of age.

2. Respect for self and others start from when they are still babies. During arrival/dismissal time, educarer greets every child warmly by using a pleasant tone. This is so that they feel welcomed and will be ready to start the day on a right note.

3. Getting family involved is a good way to help them understand what are the centre’s curriculum by providing them with monthly newsletters and portfolios. These newsletters and portfolios contain summarised concepts of the curriculum and it also shows the development of the child. Parents will be able to have a better understanding of the curriculum and adopt them as strategies for learning at home.

How to manage and soothe a child with separation anxiety?

How do educarer help the child slowly wean off from using a pacifier?

If the child refuse to drink milk, what should the educarer do?

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1. Children are secure and emotionally connected to their educarers
2. Programme are holistic and provide optimal support and experiences.
3. Educarers are professional.

- Define the principles of quality care and learning practices.
- How to foster a good relationship with parents.

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1)      As an educarer, we need to be respectful towards the child’s decision.

2)      We as educarer need to know that our role is to engage activities for the children irregardless of their age.

3)      Family involvement is very important as so to let them know how important they are as a role model to the children.

1) How to get the child get along with all educarers instead only certain ones?
2) Ways to approach a child with separation anxiety?

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1. Care-giving Routines
e.g. while stimulations is intended to foster development , educarers need to be mindful of over- stimulating the children.
2. Indoor and Outdoor experiences
e.g. well designed environment has a purposeful intent, allows children to engage in range of behaviours and experiences. explore, question, discover, think, reflect, problem solve, make decisions, communicate, imagine, create.
3. Observation, Reflection and Documentation
e.g. Good documentation reveals patterns in individual developmental pathways. It helps educarers to support and extend learning, and identify particular issues that may require the family attention or referrals to specialists.
Questions:
Are children expected to attain all the learning goals at the end of K2. If they dont will they be able to proceed to primary school?
Is it possible for a special need child to remain in usual childcare centers or better for them to go special needs school?

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The first thing that is most useful to me are the example of activities in the “Intentional Programme” that the educarer can do with the children to develop them holistically and have a great impact on the foundations of learning in children. It allows me to be able to plan the curriculum according to their needs to maximise their potential in all their developmental domains. It transforms my understanding that the role of an educarer is not to babysit.

The second thing that is useful to me is that staff-child interactions are to be respectful, responsive and reciprocal. Being respectful includes greeting the child warmly upon arrival at the centre to reduce the level of separation anxiety of the child. Being responsive allows the child to be able to trust the world around them as their basic needs are met. Being reciprocal acknowledges that the child’s feelings and thoughts are important and this enhances their self-esteem.

The third thing that is useful to me is that the educarer should continue to be open to new ideas for lifelong learning in this field and to keep herself updated with the latest research and practices to continually improve on her approach in the care and development of children. She should be able to work as a team with her colleagues and be open to feedback from her mentors.

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In the first 2 pillars of the EYDF, “the developing child” and “the intentional programme”, there is much emphasis on what educarers can do with the child. At this age group, there is a lot of one-to-one interactions with teacher and child, unlike in older age groups where there is more classroom activities and teacher directed learning. The first question I have regarding how to use the EYDF in the centre is that with the given teacher-child ratios stipulated by ECDA, how can I give the child more one-to-one attention in order to meet their needs? I find it challenging to for the 1:5 ratio at infant care centres to be able to implement the EYDF effectively with this ratio.

The second question I have regarding how to use EYDF at the centre is that the EYDF has much emphasis on caregiving practices for infants. For the older age group (pre-nursery) level, some parents may begin to expect the teachers to conduct less “routine care” and more emphasis on academic domains such as literacy and numeracy. Is the EYDF sufficient to cater to the needs for the older age group (pre-nursery)?

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3 things I find most useful to me after reading through the EYDF

1. The Developing Child - the importance of their early relationship with the Edu carer and also giving them the sense of security.

2. The Intentional Programme - develop learning skills during their routine care such as telling them this is your right hand; these are your fingers etc...

3. The Involved Family - how to maintain good relationships with the parents are important to nurture them in their growth. This relationship will help in exchanging information abt the baby and help us to understand them more.

2 questions regarding how to use the EYDF when you work with the children in your centre.

1.What kind of learning needs we need to improve caregivers and teaching practices?

2.How we as an Edu carer help a child with separation anxiety?

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Write a reflection based on the following:

List down 3 things you find most useful to you after reading through the EYDF.

The Developing Child:

As educarer I believe that we need to give children full attention when caring for them and support their development. Encourage children to learn as they grow. Have eye contact and speak in a soothing tone.

The Professional Educarer:

Maintaining high standards of professional conduct. Allow children to express their ideas and thoughts freely as you interact with them. As educarer I need to learn, grow professionally and deepen learning of new knowledge and skills.

The Family Involved:

Be respectful of and sensitive to families cultural beliefs and practices. Work collaboratively with families to align practices at home and at the centre and to achieve the children’s learning goals. Be attentive when communicating with parents on their expectating and concern on the child's development.

2. Write down 2 or more questions you have regarding how to use the EYDF when you work with the children in your centre.

1. What are the steps that should be taken by the educarer to increase family involvement in the school?

2. How do I plan a schedule to observe children with different activities?

3. In circumstances that the child shows a negative behaviour in school such as starting to be violent or not himself, how do we ask parents nicely if thrs a change in his environment recently?

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1. Developing Child- to nurture the I&T with appropriate tools.
2. Involved Family- To ensure that the communication is 2 way communication betw the Educarer and Stakeholders.
3. The Intentional Programme- Ensure that the programme are suitable for the age group as this is important as it offers holistic experiences for learning.

- What do we have to do if parents are in denial of their Child's Development?
- How do we get the family to be more involved and interested in their childs' progress?

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3 Reflection - List down 3 things you find most useful to you after reading through the EYDF.

1. The Developing Child
Educarer plays an important role in the environment where the child being able
to grow and learn. Knowledge of physical,cognitive, and social emotional
development in a child is also important for us as an educarer to consider when
developing our lesson plans.

2. The Involved Family
Family involvement can free teachers to focus more on the task of teaching
children. By having contact with parents, we can learn more about the child’s
needs and the home environment, which is informative so that we can apply
toward better meeting those needs. I believe parents who are involved tend to
have a more positive view of the educarer, which results in improved educarer
morale.

3. The Professional Educarer
As a professional educarer we need to have the ability to develop our
relationship with the child. Being able to build trusting relationships with them in
order to create a safe, positive, and productive learning environment.
We also need to be patient , kind , caring personality so that we are able to
engage and motivate the child to learn.

Write down 2 or more questions you have regarding how to use the EYDF
when you work with the children in your centre.

1. The family involvement played important part of EYDF how we as an
educarer approach the parents when we observed certain atypical
behaviour in their child appropriately without hurting the parents
feelings ?

2. The social and emotional situate of their developmental. As an
educarer how we should deal a feisty child ? What are the ways or method
we can use to calm him / her ?

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3 Reflections:
- communication between parents and educarers is important
- Care giving and teaching practices.
- strong partnership and community collaborations.

My Question
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What are the approaches that we can apply to help family who has special needs' children rather than
turning the family's request down? (Besides being certified)

What are the learning aids that we can refer to on how to apply attention, affection and needs towards kids in the class. It is not as easy as it look.