Pennie Akenhurst

9781912611058

2019 Practical Pre-School Books

With Ofsted's inspectors raising the bar for quality of teaching and learning in the early years, and the additional level of scrutiny on leadership and management, every practitioner must ensure they have in place a systematic monitoring and evaluation process to regularly assess the effectiveness of their provision. Managers need to be able to demonstrate that staff know why they do what they do, and that the services they provide makes a demonstrable difference to the children.

This book shows how to construct a robust monitoring and evaluation framework and provides leaders and managers with an invaluable tool to observe, record and maintain the quality of their provision. It includes: actions tasks to ensure the provision continues to meet high-quality standards; the role that performance management needs to play in monitoring and evaluation; what to look at and for to establish a consistent monitoring schedule; and ways to manage the workload efficiently, and fully utilise the knowledge, skills and talent of each member of the team.