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1. So I’m meant to be switching off but this discussion is too important not to be had.
The justification given around of rewriting the goals and DM because of how they are being used as ticklists doesn’t stand up- and is a way to try and put these changes back on the sector...
The justification given around of rewriting the goals and DM because of how they are being used as ticklists doesn’t stand up- and is a way to try and put these changes back on the sector...
2. Look at these documents and decide who is made the ticklists...
Was it the EYs organisation who published a document titled “Development Matters” with broad bands, guidance around principles, CoETLs and obsas well as writing “this is not a ticklist” on every page.... or....
Was it the EYs organisation who published a document titled “Development Matters” with broad bands, guidance around principles, CoETLs and obsas well as writing “this is not a ticklist” on every page.... or....
3. Or was it the Gov dept who reduced this document to the age band with no other guidance and renamed it “Early Years outcomes” .....
4. And now to the goals. Again we are hearing that these reforms will stop the ticking off. And yet we are moving from a statement which are told is about best fit....
5. ...to goals broken into bullet points....and the worst of it is that they misinterpret complex areas such as self regulation, and are focussed on goals not based on anything other than top down pressures (automatic recall and specific pencil grip)
6. Don’t believe that your misinterpretation has led to this point or the pressures apparently you put on yourselves to collect data get children to goals has meant this reforms needed to happen....
7. We know where the pressure comes from. And it isn’t us.
These reforms aren’t coming to help us.... or our children.
They are coming to push us towards working in a certain way, a way where learning is done to children, not with them...
These reforms aren’t coming to help us.... or our children.
They are coming to push us towards working in a certain way, a way where learning is done to children, not with them...
8. And I for one will continue to stand up and challenge this.
We have a rich tapestry of ECE here in England and it’s being pulled apart by outdated, unethical reforms.
International schools around the world won’t touch this with a barge pole- who would?
We have a rich tapestry of ECE here in England and it’s being pulled apart by outdated, unethical reforms.
International schools around the world won’t touch this with a barge pole- who would?
