Authentic Assessment through Emergent Practice (ICQAW Accredited)

Programme Introduction

Welcome to the training programme ‘Seeing Every Child’ child-led documentation for early learning!

This is Module 1- Authentic Assessment through Emergent Practice

The Learning Objective of the full programme (4 modules) is to introduce child-centred documentation as an instrument to recognise, support and enhance children’s wellbeing, learning and development. This is Module 1.

COST: The cost of each individual module includes:

  • The cost of your accredited certificate from ICQAW 
  • 5 components of learning and reflective tasks
  • Anytime access - access to the programme on multiple occasions until complete
  • Educator's Handbook with summaries, graphics, planning templates, blogs
  • Engaging slides with audio for ease of participation.  

 

Module 1- Authentic Assessment through Emergent Practice

This module will explore the importance of seeing each child as a unique individual, with their own strengths, needs and lived experience. The programme seamlessly moves through 5 key areas and how these relate to and support strength-based, emergent practice in the areas of child and educator agency, assessment and documentation. 

Components are as follows:

Component 1: Emergent Practice: Placing the Child at the Centre 

Component 2: Agency: Agentic Educators enable Agentic Children  

Component 3: Assessment for Early Education 

Component 4: Seeing the Unique Child through Documentation 

Component 5: MOSAIC as a Child-centred Documentation System.

 

This programme is created by MOSAIC Digital Solutions for Early Education and is accredited by International Certification in Quality Assessment (ICQAWUK).

An  accredited certificate is awarded on completion of each of the 4 individual modules.

*PLEASE READ NOTES FOR THIS COURSE

 

 

Programme Content

  • What is emergent practice and seeing it in action
  • The emergent environment
  • Nurturing children's emerging interests
  • What is Child and Educator Agency?
  • Seeing child agency in practice
  • How can educators nurture child agency
  • Pedagogical strategies to support agency
  • The four main types of assessment in early education and their purpose
  • Creating a culture for authentic assessment in early education
  • What is Documentation?
  • Modes of Documentation
  • Seeing the strengths of the individual child through documentation
  • MOSAIC as a child-centred documentation system for professional educators
Key Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, learning outcomes include the ability to:

  • Explain the principles of the Emergent approach and evaluate its key characteristics.

  • Analyse the concept of Agency as it relates to both children and educators.

  • Identify and compare the various forms of Assessment and their purposes.

  • Interpret child-centred approaches and the concept of the unique child in Documentation and pedagogical practice.

  • Evaluate the role of the MOSAIC platform as a pedagogical framework for bridging theory and practice through children's participation, reflection, and documentation.

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