Early Years Educator Review

Supporting, guiding, and modeling appropriate behaviour and language to the children, providing stimulating activities and provocations for the children to learn, play and develop from. Recording attendance, meals, sleep times, and providing personal care to ensure the safety and positive overall holistic development of the children. Keeping strong relationships with parents and handing over feedback and ways to continue learning at home.

Yes, I have learned to deliver the EYFS curriculum within independent settings that allow for the child as a whole to be developed and not rigidly focused on certain academic outcomes. Creatively utilising children's interests to maximise learning and fun simultaneously. As well as remaining calm under stressful circumstances being mindful that the educator's actions are always being absorbed by the children in our care.

I enjoyed the children I worked with and made some good friends with fellow colleagues within the workplace. Learning and working simultaneously provided lots of opportunities to put theory into practice and trial out ideas with the children in the room I was working in, which in turn enabled faster progression of what worked for the children and age group I was working with. I enjoyed having four months in each aged room to deliver activities and really appreciate the differences in approach needed for the different age groups.

It was a well-structured programme that started with safeguarding and most important caregiving information like signs and symptoms of common illnesses. It provided enough time to fully focus on the learning content, one day out per week really helped, as well as the fact it was a Wednesday because that gave a bit of recovery time from hectic workplace days.

There were other members of staff who provided some information about how the setting ran and daily duties to be completed. I had peer on peer reviews on my relevant skills fairly regularly. The training development team delivered lots of support and information about the pedagogy and high standard education which was brilliant.

Let me play were extremely supportive and readily available to discuss any issues and helped progress my learning. Anita my tutor was brilliantly supportive and made the whole journey positive.

The qualification has given me the way, the theoretical approaches, the reasoning behind why we teach the way we do. It has been invaluable in progressing my career to the next step. It has improved my knowledge, experience, and passion for my role and within a month of completing I have got a new job with great prospects.

Due to the pandemic socialising has not been possible.

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The training and development team is extremely knowledgeable, supportive, and enthusiastic. Their passion shines through and the enrichment sessions have really made the difference in my learning journey in gaining my qualification. They have highlighted what the work culture of excellence is in early years education as well as how important our role is.

Come ready to make the most out of every day. Bring a notebook with you every day to write down ideas or experiences you want to improve on. Make use of the enrichment sessions and make sure you take advantage of every opportunity while you learn because this is the best time to try out ideas and approaches.