Made up information on daily documentation??
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:59 pm
Hi all
I have recently moved into the permanent assistant position in my room, working with a room leader, 2:8 ratio. My room leader has shown me how to do the daily documentation for our room (the 'day sheet' so to speak), and I have become a little concerned with the information she puts on it. Every day she will put a few things there that we have done (that have photos to go with them), but then tends to make up the rest of what we did, I presume to make it sound more exciting to the parents. I'm not talking occasionally, I'm saying she does this on every day sheet she writes.
Is this a common practice that others do/have noticed? Or just laziness? Am I worrying about it for nothing? I was previously float staff so wasn't involved in any documentation other than providing information to the room leader and taking photos. It just doesn't sit right with me, because I feel like if you have to make stuff up to put on the day sheet you're either saying you didn't focus enough on the children's learning and development that day so you have to add in fake things, or you don't think what you did do would be seen as enough by the parents, so you jazz up the day sheet with made up information. Either way there are issues to be addressed if information is being made up.
Any thoughts???
I have recently moved into the permanent assistant position in my room, working with a room leader, 2:8 ratio. My room leader has shown me how to do the daily documentation for our room (the 'day sheet' so to speak), and I have become a little concerned with the information she puts on it. Every day she will put a few things there that we have done (that have photos to go with them), but then tends to make up the rest of what we did, I presume to make it sound more exciting to the parents. I'm not talking occasionally, I'm saying she does this on every day sheet she writes.
Is this a common practice that others do/have noticed? Or just laziness? Am I worrying about it for nothing? I was previously float staff so wasn't involved in any documentation other than providing information to the room leader and taking photos. It just doesn't sit right with me, because I feel like if you have to make stuff up to put on the day sheet you're either saying you didn't focus enough on the children's learning and development that day so you have to add in fake things, or you don't think what you did do would be seen as enough by the parents, so you jazz up the day sheet with made up information. Either way there are issues to be addressed if information is being made up.
Any thoughts???
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