Monitoring and Evaluation in the Early Years : Assessing the Effectiveness of What We Do.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akehurst, Pennie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Luton, Bedfordshire : Mark Allen Group, 2019.

Summary:

With Ofsted's inspectors raising the bar for quality of teaching and learning in the early years, and the additional level of scrutiny on leadership and management, every practitioner must ensure they have in place a systematic monitoring and evaluation process to regularly assess the effectiveness of their provision. Managers need to be able to demonstrate that staff know why they do what they do, and that the services they provide makes a demonstrable difference to the children. This book shows how to construct a robust monitoring and evaluation framework and provides leaders and managers with an invaluable tool to observe, record and maintain the quality of their provision.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Front Matter

Introduction

Monitoring and Evaluation in the Early Years

Chapter 1: The basis of effective monitoring systems and processes

Why we need a business strategy

Finding your WHY

What might your WHY look like?

Making your WHY happen

Your WHAT (defining your outcomes for success)

Turning outcomes for success into actions

Chapter 2: Developing an effective monitoring framework

Understanding Governance

Setting your monitoring criteria

Creating leadership opportunities

Organising yourself and others

The EYFS and the Early Years Inspection Handbook

Chapter 3: Monitoring and managing performance

Clarity of roles and responsibilities

Understanding performance management

Managing your workload

Formal discussions

Managing underperformance

Chapter 4: Accurate self-evaluation and action planning

Analysing monitoring data

What to record

Recording your findings

Action planning

Back Matter

Annex A: Forming your WHY, HOW, WHAT

Annex B: Mapping actions against levels of responsibility

Annex C: Mapping inspections actions and recommendations against the National Professional Qualification Content and Assessment Framework

Annex D: Risk Mapping

Annex E: How to create a rigorous and manageable monitoring framework

Annex F: Performance review template

Annex G: A self-evaluation template

Annex H: An action planning template

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781912611461

1912611465

9781912611454

1912611457