Assessing School Practices

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Educators should reflect on their own practice regularly to ensure that they are effective. (Arthur,2010, p.1). By critically reflecting on ones own practice enables carers to make good curriculum decisions and support positive outcomes for children. (Arthur,2010; Mac Naughton & Williams, 2009). Educators need to make meaning of the things that are going on around them. Assessing practices will help educators understand their practices better and thereby deciding if these practices are of value or not. Moss (2001a, p.131) says that quality is related to a pedagogy of ‘conformity and normalization, control and management’, to make meaning it looks at choice and the way we interpret and understand things and thereby having a variety of different

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