You have just begun working in the 0-2s room at an early childhood education and care service. One of the other educators in the room is reluctant to allow the children to feed themselves and still insists on having all of the children sitting in high chairs for every meal. From your studies and professional readings, you know that children should be encouraged to develop self-help skills and be given the opportunity to experience relaxed, enjoyable mealtimes.
b) What steps would you take to change the culture in the 0-2s room around meal times without causing conflict amongst the educators?
I would make sure the children eat according to their age and how capable they are to eating and what they need to help them, a couple things would be:
• Putting the older toddlers on chairs and sitting at the tables while keeping the younger ones in high chairs
• Offering spoons to children while still helping them to eat
• Getting staff to sit with a few children to assist them with their eating.
In your answer, state how the Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard can be used to facilitate change and guide practice within the service.
Belonging, being and Becoming – I think that every section of this book is relevant to this question. The book is all about making children confident in their surroundings and a lot able to take care of them where they can.
Those are my answers to the question but this is the feed back I got:
"Useful strategies, however you need to specifically explain how you would use EYLF and NQS'
PLEASE HELP!!!
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