Running head: Portfolio Plan

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Running head: Portfolio Plan

PORTFOLIO PLAN 2

Portfolio Plan

Sheree Mays

Walden University

June 26, 2016

Portfolio Plan

Child’s First Name: Logan Hinton

Goals of this Plan:

Area of Development and Learning	Types of Items	Plan for Item Selection
Personal Development	Self-assessment, parent’s discussion
	Likes and Dislikes	So as to identify what they prefer and what reasons they prefer that thing or not. This also aims at finding out if the child can learn on their own(Grotewell P. G & Burton Y. R, 2008)
Societal Development	Observing
	Relationship and interaction with new friends	This helps to understand how the child can cope up with different people or friends and respect them
Emotional Development	Conversation, parental discussions
	Ability to cope up with hard situations and stress	This is aimed at weighing the child’s temperament and find out if he can contain himself.
Physical development	Setting tasks
	Issue toys and other items for playing but in a disorganized manner	Here the child is assessed if he can relate previous situations and current situations. Should be able to check, organize, keep in line and move using their skills when interacting(Grotewell P. G & Burton Y. R, 2008).
Communication and Language	Reading, teacher assessments
	Conversations,	These items looks at helping the children learn how to effectively express themselves. Equips them with the confidence to listen and understand instructions.
Literacy	Teacher tests
	Reading and Writing, work samples	Here the skills to read and write would be tested. Helps a child to learn how to read and write.
Understanding the World	Questions, videos and audios
	Observations, conversations.	Helps the child understand their environment, learn how to stay in it and make good use of the available resources(McAffee O & Leong D, 2011).
Expressive Arts and Design	Work samples
	Self-assessment,	This area enables the children showcase and put to paper their skills of creativity (McAffee O & Leong D, 2011). They are given resources that would enable them put down what best they can see and imagine.

References

Grotewell, P. G., & Burton, Y. R. (2008). Early childhood education: Issues and developments. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

McAfee, O., & Leong, D. (2011). Assessing and guiding young children’s development and learning. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson.