Unit of competency details
CHCECE047 - Analyse information to inform children's learning (Release 1)
Summary
Usage recommendation:
Current
Releases:
| 1 1 (this release) |
20/Jul/2021 |
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Unit of competency
Assessment requirements
Training packages that include this unit
Qualifications that include this unit
Classifications
Classification history
| ASCED Module/Unit of Competency Field of Education Identifier | 070101 | Teacher Education: Early Childhood | 15/Sep/2021 | |
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Unit of competency
Modification History
Release 1. CHCECE047 Analyse information to inform children’s learning supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCECE023 Analyse information to inform learning.
Application
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to gather and analyse information about children’s learning to inform practice.
This unit applies to educators who develop and implement curriculum in the context of an approved learning framework in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia. Work is undertaken independently, but according to the philosophy of the service.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Pre-requisite Unit
Nil
Competency Field
Early Childhood Education and Care
Unit Sector
Children’s Education and Care
Elements and Performance Criteria
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ELEMENTS
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PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
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Elements describe the essential outcomes
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Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
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1. Gather information about children.
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1.1. Gather and document detailed information about children’s learning and development using methods and tools suited to the individual child.
1.2. Include the perspectives of children, families and other stakeholders in information gathered.
1.3. Demonstrate respect for children through inclusive information gathering practices.
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2. Interpret information on children’s development and learning.
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2.1. Analyse gathered information about children’s development and learning in the context of the learning framework.
2.2. Analyse gathered information with reference to developmental domains and theory.
2.3. Use summative assessment processes that support evaluation of children’s learning over a period of time.
2.4. Develop a process that ensures information and observations are gathered, documented and used to inform the planning cycle for all children.
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3. Use information to inform practice.
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3.1. Use the analysis to inform planning for children’s development and learning.
3.2. Collaborate with families to support children’s learning through exchange of information.
3.3. Provide information in ways that support sharing of children’s documentation with families.
3.4. Share information appropriately according to service confidentiality procedures.
3.5. Critically reflect on own practices of information gathering and analysis.
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Foundation Skills
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Foundation skills essential to performance in this unit, but not explicit in the performance criteria are listed here, along with a brief context statement.
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SKILLS
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DESCRIPTION
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Reading skills to:
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- interpret information gathered from diverse sources.
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Writing skills to:
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- write clearly and fluently when preparing documents.
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Oral communication skills to:
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- ask open and closed questions and actively listen to seek information and confirm understanding
- interact and engage with children and families to build rapport.
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Technology skills to:
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- record information using digital media.
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Unit Mapping Information
Release 1. CHCECE047 Analyse information to inform children’s learning supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCECE023 Analyse information to inform learning.
Links
Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53
Assessment requirements
Modification History
Release 1. CHCECE047 Analyse information to inform children’s learning supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCECE023 Analyse information to inform learning.
Performance Evidence
Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:
- gather, document and analyse information about an individual child on six different occasions using a minimum of three different tools or methods
- develop and document a perspective about the child’s:
- overall development
- knowledge
- ideas
- strengths
- interests
- social interactions
- reactions to play environment
- report on two different critical reflection activities used to review own practice.
Knowledge Evidence
Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:
- requirements of the following National Quality Standard and related regulations and laws applicable to this unit including:
- collaborative partnerships with families and communities
- educational program and practice
- relationships with children
- stages of the curriculum planning cycle and how to manage that cycle:
- collecting information
- questioning and analysing information
- planning
- implementation
- review and reflection
- stages of child development and how they are considered in each phase of curriculum planning
- confidentiality and ethical requirements for the collection, sharing, storage and disposal of information
- strategies for the collection of information:
- collaborative approaches to gathering and using information
- prioritising the voice of the child
- observations:
- current and emerging thinking about contemporary practice in use of observations
- what makes for meaningful observations
- summative assessment methods and tools
- other ways of gathering different types of information and their application in different contexts:
- anecdotal records
- asking questions of children
- child records
- discussion with families
- narratives
- learning stories
- sociograms
- running records
- jottings
- time or event samples
- digital images
- cultural maps
- samples of children’s work
- ways of interrogating and analysing information to determine:
- individual children’s strengths, interests and needs
- when additional support may be needed
- current and future development and learning opportunities
- the link between the collection and analysis of information and the planning and implementation of curriculum
- the need for multiple perspectives and how educators can encourage and support collaborative critical reflection in the service
- critical reflection:
- what is critical reflection
- why and how educators use critical reflection
- what makes for meaningful critical reflection
- types of reflection activities used in analysing information and their key features:
- individual and group
- formal and informal
- journals and diaries including written or visual.
Assessment Conditions
Skills must be demonstrated in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia:
- interactions with children must be supervised by an approved early childhood educator.
Skills related to analysis, documentation and reflection may be demonstrated outside of the service but must be based on work in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia.
Assessment must ensure access to:
- observation-recording tools
- children’s records (real or simulated)
- information technology for documentation
- National Quality Framework:
- National Quality Standard
- the relevant approved learning framework
- service standards, policies and procedures for:
- collaborative partnerships with families and communities
- educational program and practice
- relationships with children
- educators and families for collaboration
- children in a regulated education and care service in Australia.
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.
Links
Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53
