In the March sparkDEBATE we talk about why oracy and agency is important in assessment during the early years.
I am joined by Ali McClure who always has a technique to support our learning as childminders or as nursery or preschool practitioners.
As we explore oracy, agency and assessment we discover that all of these concepts go beyond the considerations of the child and how this falls into what spark endeavours to support – to get it right for everyone so it can be right for each child.
Ali introduces the concepts of INSIGHT to Ofsted’s, Intent, Implementation and Impact and follows this through with IMPLICATIONS. We discuss also how the Enable, Evaluate and Enhance mantra of sparkearlyyears sits with her concepts of assessing and broadening practice further.
This is the recording of the March sparkDEBATE and the next for April is with Dr Kathryn Murray – the details and sign up information can be found sparkearlyyears.co.uk/sparkDEBATEs … or the link to the recording will be added below.
Key Moments
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02.20 – Terminology used for empowerment
03.55 – Having a voice
04.47 – Agency and children’s agendas
04.49 – Assessment discussions
05 -48 Intent, Implementation and Impact AND Insight
07.09 – spark learning journey linking to Insight ……. “Context of the Child”
09.47 – Agency – choices and autonomy
13.30 – Serving their own lunch/snack times
16.00 – Oracy and agency for practitioners
16.28 – Assessment – not observations, questions and suggestions – Intent & Insight
17.36 – ‘Fingertips – Reflective Learners Talking Tool’
18.30 – “What are you particularly proud of?”
21.43 – “I feel a shine inside”/”I feel a smile inside”
22.58 – Negativity in early years – encourage pride
23.40 – Observation ask also – “What’s most difficult for the child?”
26.16 – Observational discussions
26.34 – Spotting difficulties early and facilitating
28.20 – Dialogue with parents (oracy)
28.30 – Oracy and agency links with sparkearlyyears – ‘get it right’ for all participants
29.04 – ‘Language for learning for life’ – Ali’s research
33.29 – Different ways to assess
35.09 – Children’s strategies – bad habit forming
36.12 – Consequences of developmentally inappropriate expectations – DIE
37.25 – Curating practice – practice and early years provision
38.45 – Can children be over confident?
39.32 – Facilitate for everybody involved – parents, practitioner on equal par
40.33 – Helps all see the tricky scenarios – empowerment for children
42.45 – ‘Roots of Learning’
44.40 – Strategies …. Schemes and Schemas
45.46 – Continual assessment and evaluation for a purpose
47.02 – Two Year Progress Check
47.40 – Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
48.06 – What to do with your assessment – Ali’s Articulated Lorry analogy – Implications
50.18 – spark = Enable – Evaluate – Enhance
50.48 – Ofsted v Good practice
51.18 – Ofsted Learning Walk – deep think about what we do
52.23 – Questions to reflect upon
53.18 – Introducing ‘Bitskit’ teaching tools
54.09 – Ali’s ‘sticks’
1.02.05 – Open ended play
1.04.45 – Ali’s play resources in her childhood …. examples continue with the ‘sticks’
1.07.00 – Importance of positivity in early years
Other ‘talking’ videos in the PlayList
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What value do we put on education https://youtu.be/8MeDSbVpw40
1 sparkDEBATE – What might Ofsted Ask – How well do you know your WHY https://youtu.be/B60Ahltzfrg
2 sparkDEBATE Do we do too much for our early years children – https://youtu.be/22BwFKE3iVo
3 – Is it time to change from a Behaviour Policy to a Regulation Policy-sparkDEBATE – https://youtu.be/fEMdRR1MWHw
4 – How significant can yoga be for EYFS provision? – https://youtu.be/8hsKyD_wOyw
5 – How important is creativity and imagination in the early years – sparkDEBATE – https://youtu.be/x84bnLryjN8
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