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

Foundation Skills

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.

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.