TMA 03 Part 6

Summarize how you support and extend children’s learning in your setting. You

should ensure that your support relates to learning across the curriculum, through

the areas of learning or through a holistic approach. You can include additional

practice examples as brief illustrations of key points that you wish to make.

So you are writing about the whole of your practice, not just the two learning

experiences you have covered. You need to cover principles which form the

foundation of your practice in all areas of the curriculum, rather than looking at

the details that underpin any one area (you have just done that in the previous

sections and the last TMA). You have 500 words so you are going to be able to

make 3 or maybe 4 main points (each one probably in its own paragraph.) You

can use some very short illustrations to make your point. You might want to

start with a very short (50 word) introduction…’In this short section I shall be

looking at my practice from xxxx different perspective. First I shall look at

xxxx, then move on to xxxxxx etc finishing with xxxxx.

reflect on and evaluate different approaches and highlight areas you would like to

develop

Look at different ways you might approach learning and try to pick out those you

are or would like to develop.

select three or four approaches that allow you to demonstrate the breadth and

depth of your knowledge, understanding and skills

Here is the limit of three of four approaches…what are the different

approaches, well those linked to major theorists or practioners: Study Topic 3

is absolutely vital so go back and look again. So too is reader 1 chapter 7 and

the DVD materials listed at the start of the Study Topic. You need to show

breadth and depth which means referencing and discussion several different

approaches, with a focus on the way that encountering the course materials has

developed, might develop your practice.

Do not worry too much about the Spider diagram although it is interesting to

see and do, it is an option (note tutors may vary in their view on this). If you

like try an alternative approach, identify three of four approaches which

influence you practice (form the ones you have encountered on the course) link

these to a selection of your roles (remember doing roles in E123?) of your

practice that have changed) It is just a way of tyring to identify three or four

key areas.