Originally Posted by dolores:
I NEVER fully understood the separate exercise and purpose of documenting observations as we already do it in so many other ways. We can identify relatively quickly, based on our training and experience, when a child is lagging behind/ontrack developmentally/needs extra support in areas. Why the documented vignettes?
I always had a suspicion they were about staff turnover.
In effect training your replacement. I was taught it was so we could go back and look at long trends and evaluate any regressions, but still....