EYE1001 Assignment Overview
Discuss the holistic nature of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
Practice
The Early Years Foundation Stage Principles.
Every child matters.
Themes
Principles
Due Date: 20.12.2020
New due date - 10/01/2021
Part A (50%)
2500 Word Count
A written assignment which explores trainee's understanding of Holistic nature of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum framework.
Teaching Standards
Barriers to learning
How we learn and how we teach.
Suggested Reading - Kathy Brodie
Introduction to Holistic Development
Reference own personal and professional development.
Holistic meaning linking multiple skills and talents in one activity. Not just playing with playdough, using physical skills to squeeze it, communication to talk about what you make, PSED if in group play, etc...
Reference, Kathy Brodie, Teaching Standards, Non-Statutory and Statutory Framework, use the EYEY1001 reading list and try to find a theory or theorist that links to the idea of holistic play.
How these underpin the holistic EYFS curriculum
How and what children learn...?
Continuous provision
Study Skills - Linking your first assignment to this second assignment. Tune in to the dialogue that tutors have given you within feedback. Incorporate feedback in to your current assignment.
Principles and Practices. Underpinning the holistic nature of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Talk about 2 things here: Principles and practices within the EYFS also talk about and explore the holistic approach and what does it mean?
Talk explicitly about the EYFS.
Within your discussion, support your discussion with references to the teaching standards. How is what you are saying being supported and helping you to meet your ability to meet the teaching standards.
Subject Knowledge - demonstrate and initial understanding, within these particular areas, communication and language, PSED, Physical development, understanding the world and maths.
Discuss - The holistic nature of the Early Years Foundation stage. An analysis of your learning undertaken from around this theme and topic of learning.
Look at module road map to see learning over module so far.
Refer to assignment guidance PowerPoint,
Module Map
What is learning? How we learn? Thinking about teaching styles VS your learning styles.
Module Map - Lesson 2
Idea and notion of professional attributes, these being characteristics of effective learning and teaching. Also, considering a charter for play.
What can we do as teachers? What is our role? How can we be affective? Think about the word holistic. When we are teaching something, are we just teaching one skill, or are we teaching many skills?
Child protection and how it is everyone's responsibility.
Know the theory, know the practice and link it together.
Look at study skills in unit 1 - housed in the student ship within EYE1001.
Find different perspectives of holistic. What it means. It is hard to find things that are explicit to holistic learning. DO NOT USE GOOGLE!
Holistic nature of development - Think back to your theories. Piaget saw himself as an alone scientist, whereas Vygotsky talked about a social collaboration.
Themes and Principles - What are they? Try not to make assumptions about your reader, get across your knowledge of the topic and write the assignment as if you are explaining to someone who is not part of the early years team.
Characteristics of effective learning, how and what children learn?
Teaching standards - when we work in certain way how does that help us address the teaching standards.
Continuous provision - what is it? Provide a definition of it.
Use an area of continuous provision and see how it addresses holistic development and think about how it links to outcome 2 within the learning outcomes and reference the statutory and non statutory framework. Link changes from the previous to the new framework.
Analyse the principles. DO NOT fall in to the trap of just discussing these. Cover all 4 briefly.