Tutorial 6

ECA- planning and writing

ECA• Give an account of the

way in which your role as a practitioner has developed over the past year.

• How has you practice changed, what is the impact of the course materials

Which route to address the title?• By TMA• Refer back to key

elements of your four TMAs to support your arguments.

Which route to address the title? By Unit, TMA or Topic• By Topic• children and their

families; child development; safeguarding children and promoting their welfare; transitions; multi-agency working; sharing information

• This might make a good checklist? Some of you may choose this to structure your TMA.

Which route to address the title?By Block, TMA or Topic• Block 1: TMA 01:

Roles, provision and practices:

• Study Topics 1-3: Roles and responsibilities: Provision and policy: Early years practices

• Block 2: TMA 02: Children in focus Study Topics 4-6; Growth, development and learning; Health and wellbeing; Diversity, inclusion and children’s rights

Blocks 3 and 4 (TMA 03?)• Block 3:

Relationships: Study Topics 6-9 Children’s transitions, Working with others, Parents as partners

• Block 4: Environments for learning Study Topics 10-12; Developing positive learning environments; Support in context; Wider environments

5 (TMA04) and 6• Block 5: Learning and

development Study Topics 13-17; Communication and language; Language and literacy; Mathematics; Understanding the world; Personal, social and emotional development

• Block 6: The reflective practitioner: this is addressed at the end of the ECA

Activity: 6 planning and leadership

DVD worms: Activity 6 p. 147

How do you plan in your setting? What do you understand by democratic reflective practice?What do you understand by ‘evidence’

Task: Finding Key points• Our task is to find the

key points form each Block or TMA, some of these will be individual.

• It helps to look at the materials and at you TMA to try and pick out what matters.

Is you work you own: discuss

ECA scanning• See my notes• ECA are scanned to

make sure that work is original

• You writing is compared to that of other students and to published work

Plans and balance• You have to decide on your

balance• You will need to plan carefully• Think about sections, word

counts and paragraphs

Keep checking back for updates• Please get in touch with me if you have questions