Reflective Review of Personal Professional Practice
Reflective Review of my personal and professional practice
Learning outcome: Demonstrating inclusive practice (PP1)
My name is and I am the manager of a day care setting based in the north of London; in a rich culturally mixed community. I manage a 41 place centre offering full day care services for children aged 6 months to 5 years. I am responsible for the overall running of the setting including the writing of policies and recruitment of staff. I am also the settings SENCO, nominated safeguarding officer and Room leader of the pre-school room. I am the first point of contact for all parents that require a nursery place at the setting.
In this essay I will be looking at the development of my personal and professional practice in relation to inclusive practice as a result of studying E105.
Since embarking on my foundation degree and particularly studying the module E105 I have become more confident in my role as a manager. I have developed my knowledge and understanding of the different elements of the early years, which has made more confident and assertive in leading change. I also feel more confident in my role as a manager and liaising with external agencies, attending multi-agency team (MAT) meetings and Team around the family (TAF) meetings.
As a result of studying Block 2, I have improvised many of the strategies devised by Jeff and Smith 1999, ‘core values underpinning teamwork’, within my day-to-day conduct with staff and other professionals. I feel more confident leading staff meetings, developing changes and making referrals to external agencies such as; child psychologist, speech therapist, support worker etc.
A key learning moment for me relation to Inclusion was when I read the section on ‘Children with additional or complex needs’ and watched the DVD clip ‘Inclusion (Abdullah)’ for activity 4.9 in Block 4. I was taken aback at the extent the setting went to include Abdullah and facilitated his participation in all aspects
Learning outcome: Demonstrating inclusive practice (PP1)
My name is and I am the manager of a day care setting based in the north of London; in a rich culturally mixed community. I manage a 41 place centre offering full day care services for children aged 6 months to 5 years. I am responsible for the overall running of the setting including the writing of policies and recruitment of staff. I am also the settings SENCO, nominated safeguarding officer and Room leader of the pre-school room. I am the first point of contact for all parents that require a nursery place at the setting.
In this essay I will be looking at the development of my personal and professional practice in relation to inclusive practice as a result of studying E105.
Since embarking on my foundation degree and particularly studying the module E105 I have become more confident in my role as a manager. I have developed my knowledge and understanding of the different elements of the early years, which has made more confident and assertive in leading change. I also feel more confident in my role as a manager and liaising with external agencies, attending multi-agency team (MAT) meetings and Team around the family (TAF) meetings.
As a result of studying Block 2, I have improvised many of the strategies devised by Jeff and Smith 1999, ‘core values underpinning teamwork’, within my day-to-day conduct with staff and other professionals. I feel more confident leading staff meetings, developing changes and making referrals to external agencies such as; child psychologist, speech therapist, support worker etc.
A key learning moment for me relation to Inclusion was when I read the section on ‘Children with additional or complex needs’ and watched the DVD clip ‘Inclusion (Abdullah)’ for activity 4.9 in Block 4. I was taken aback at the extent the setting went to include Abdullah and facilitated his participation in all aspects
References: See reference list in Essay 1