lorettacritchet
10-12-2013, 02:32 PM
Hi,
I currently make quite a lot of work for myself when noting observations etc and am looking for substantial decrease in what I do without lacking the quality! so to speak.
My current process is:
- Get observations from children's diaries, note in private notepad and eventually get around to typing them up on each child's electronic monthly observations sheet (this will include all activities and observations through free and planned play), next to this column will be the learning aspect covered and the next column will have planning/next step and next to that will be date completed of next step.
- For some reason I also copy all the observations onto an excel tracker which again has the same information but with the actual evidence of what happened i.e. Child A took well to activity and participated (would be my evidence)
- Mark EYFS trackers with dates certain points have been completed.
I have seen so many ideas and not sure how to file observations anymore nor note them down, Some people are using stickers and putting them on sheets of A4 with or without photos, their children files are sub divided into learning aspects but I find this highly confusing because things like cooking to me is MAT more than PD or a certain activity could reflect a lot of several aspects....at the moment I file observations under that section, LJ's etc under their own section and not under the specific learning aspect.
I am looking at using stickers, noting down the big WOW moments, sticking them on paper and writing the next steps underneath? It's just how I will file it because I can only imagine one month could fill my files in minutes! I do quite a lot of observations, sometimes 20 in a month, depending on the time the children are with me. Some observations are also little like "Child A used spoon! in which case I can't bear to waste the white space on an A4 sheet.
Any advice on shortening my workload would be greatly appreciated. thanks
I currently make quite a lot of work for myself when noting observations etc and am looking for substantial decrease in what I do without lacking the quality! so to speak.
My current process is:
- Get observations from children's diaries, note in private notepad and eventually get around to typing them up on each child's electronic monthly observations sheet (this will include all activities and observations through free and planned play), next to this column will be the learning aspect covered and the next column will have planning/next step and next to that will be date completed of next step.
- For some reason I also copy all the observations onto an excel tracker which again has the same information but with the actual evidence of what happened i.e. Child A took well to activity and participated (would be my evidence)
- Mark EYFS trackers with dates certain points have been completed.
I have seen so many ideas and not sure how to file observations anymore nor note them down, Some people are using stickers and putting them on sheets of A4 with or without photos, their children files are sub divided into learning aspects but I find this highly confusing because things like cooking to me is MAT more than PD or a certain activity could reflect a lot of several aspects....at the moment I file observations under that section, LJ's etc under their own section and not under the specific learning aspect.
I am looking at using stickers, noting down the big WOW moments, sticking them on paper and writing the next steps underneath? It's just how I will file it because I can only imagine one month could fill my files in minutes! I do quite a lot of observations, sometimes 20 in a month, depending on the time the children are with me. Some observations are also little like "Child A used spoon! in which case I can't bear to waste the white space on an A4 sheet.
Any advice on shortening my workload would be greatly appreciated. thanks