Objective Documentation Methods
This method requires an ECE to sit aside without interruptions, to write down everything that happens to a specific child within a predetermined time frame.
Running Record
This type of documentation is like a running record but without planning. Short little notes about stories of children's play and learning
Anecdotal Records
This is what ECEs see, hear, and feel throughout the day. These can later be written down to become documentation
Observations
This is needed to share information about a child with anyone outside the regular classroom staff.
Consent
How many infants per ECE meet Nova Scotia's regulations for student-teacher ratios
4:1
This method can help you discover how often a child exhibits a particular behaviour or skill.
Frequency chart
This type of documentation includes examples of children artwork, pictures of their buildings and structures or their play.
Work samples
This is documentation that includes the ECE's thinking about what is happening.
Subjective documentation
We protect this when not sharing personal or identifying information with others.
Confidentiality
What credential do you need to get a Level 2 certification in ECE in Nova Scotia
Two-year College diploma
This method can help you figure out which milestones a child has met from a list of expected milestones. It is an assessment of their development.
Checklist
This is a comprehensive explanation of an exploration that happened. it usually includes Images, Child's voice and ECE's thinking.
Learning story
This is the recorded observations that are used in planning and sharing information.
Documentation
This is the 6 letter acronym for the organization that explains our code of ethics.
AECENS
Can you name 4 ECE faculty
Matthew, Justin, Jackie, Mansure, Trina.
Do objective methods help us record what the child is thinking or what the child is doing.
What the child is doing
This piece of documentation contains many examples of documentation over a period of a semester or year. It charts the overall development of a single child and explains who they are and what they spend their time doing and thinking about.
Portfolio
This is the long word that means "about children and childhood". It is usually used to describe the general type of documentation that we create as an ECE.
Pedagogical or Pedagogy
What type of responsibility is providing the best possible care and support for children and families.
Ethical
We need to get a vulnerable sector check at the police station with what form before going to an early childhood classroom.
Criminal reference check
Before a child transitions from one classroom to another (infants to toddlers) the ECEs will complete this documentation method to chart the child's progress.
Checklist
This is the term for using the child's actual words in script or quotation format within a piece of pedagogical documentation.
Child's voice
This type of documentation includes just the facts.
Objective
What type of responsibility is ensuring that you do not leave children unattended or in dangerous situations.
Legal responsibilities
February 20th to March 10th