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Work matters: Early years professionals - Study diary

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Louise Masterson is fast approaching the assessment part of the Early Years Professional course which she is following through the NDNA and Open University.

Special educational needs is an area of the standards she is currently working hard to meet, as she explains.

The Gateway Review is imminent and the pressure is on. This is our next assessment day which has to be passed in order to move on to the next stage of the course.

The day will consist of an in-tray exercise, a personal interview, a presentation of a change made within our setting, and a discussion to follow the presentation, analysing what constitutes best practice for effective change. The most dreaded item of all will be a role-play interview with an actor over a staffing problem.

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