This article is based on a workshop given by Julian Grenier and Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs at the Newham Early Years Conference: Celebrating Children's Learning on 8 January 2018, attended by 300 practitioners.
It's difficult to make accurate assessments of young children’s development and learning.
Why? Here are some thoughts.
First of all, young children can be very different day to day. That’s why it’s so fascinating to work in the early years.
So, even as adults we know we have good days and bad days. We can remember the exam that went wrong because everything seemed to go wrong that day. Young children live life with much more emotional intensity than adults. If they didn’t feel like breakfast, or they had a big row about which socks to wear just as it was time to go out the door, or if they have just fallen out with their best friend, that will hugely affect how they learn and play in an EYFS setting that day.
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