The Inventory of Practices / Action Plan and Practice Implementation Checklist / Implementation Planning Forms are valuable tools of self-reflection in our practice as Early Childhood Educators.
The more in-depth
Inventory of Practices for Promoting Social Emotional Competence provides four areas of reflection that respond to the framework with detailed statements that aim to delve a little deeper with regard how social emotional competencies in young children are being encouraged and developed. It promotes discussion as well as reflection, and provides for honest recording of perceived levels of skills from the perspective of the educator. Using these responses to determine potential training opportunities is also enabled, and an Action Plan, also reflecting the four tiers of the framework, goes that one further step towards recognising how, who, where, when specific training/support can assist change.
The Practice Implementation Checklists and Implementation Planning Forms do the same thing in a more generalised fashion. They are certainly enough to prompt reflection and can be easily referred to for multiple application - encouraging review and follow up in the easy to complete nature of the forms.
Further to the above individual educator reflection tools, is the
Early Childhood Program-Wide PBS Benchmarks of Quality. Whilst the other tools can of course be used by whole service for all service reflection, this is more specific to policy and procedure with the emphasise still on Pyramid Model practices.
