Early Learning and Care Quality Assessment Requirements
School Age
| 9. Extending Children's Learning | |||||
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| 1 or 2 | 3 | 4 or 5 | |||
| Does Not Meet Expectations | Meets Expectations | Exceeds Expectations | |||
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Staff repeatedly miss opportunities to enhance children's knowledge Staff are not engaged with children Staff are not modeling active listening skills | Staff are engaged as co-learners with children Staff respond to spontaneous and/or emerging learning opportunities Staff encourage conversation between children | Staff recall past experiences to extend current learning opportunities Staff provide spontaneous resources to allow children to follow their own learning path Staff ask open-ended questions to promote inquiry | ||