ECE Outdoor Professional Supervision

For the answer key, explore ANSWERS: ECE Outdoor Professional Supervision Tour

For a view of the room without hazards, explore Hazard-Free: ECE Outdoor Professional Supervision Tour

Rationale

This outdoor professional supervision 360 tour was created to provide Early Childhood Education students with an opportunity to practice their sound professional judgment.

Professional supervision can be challenging because it changes and is a multi-faceted process that requires ECEs to stay child-focused and aware of their surroundings. This tour allows students to practice and receive feedback from faculty members by making connections to both the current legislation and the Standards of Practice.

Professional supervision requires the knowledge, skill, and good judgment of an ECE to identify and respond to situations in the moment to reduce the risk of injury to children

Faculty Guide

This outdoor 360 tour is intended as a practice experience of a real-world setting for students pre-practicum. The tour can be used in two ways. It is accompanied by the Outdoor Professional Supervision Assignment and Rubric.

Small groups

Working in small groups, the student can view and move around the 360 tour together, discussing and noting their observations on the activity log. The log will ask them to note a concern or unprofessional detail, write a single statement rationale for their notation, and link to Legislation and/or the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

This small group engagement encourages students to work together to ensure a quality environment and talk about their findings. Once the group has completed their tour of the outdoor environment, they submit their activity table for review/grading. Once reviewed/graded, the answer-key environment will open for students to view with explanations about the concerns and unprofessional details in the environment. They can also view the hazard-free environment.

Independently

Much like the small group activity, the student can view and move around the 360 tour, noting their observations on the activity log. The log will ask them to note a concern or unprofessional detail, write a single statement rationale for their notation, and link to Legislation and/or the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

The independent activity ensures each student is accountable for children health and safety in the environment while ensuring professional standards are met. Once the individual student has completed their tour of the outdoor environment, they submit their activity table for review/grading. Once reviewed/graded, the answer-key environment will open for the student to view with explanations about the issues presented in the 360 tour of the environment. They can also view the hazard-free environment.

Acknowledgments

“ECE Outdoor Professional Supervision” by Jennifer Bailey, Krista Ceccolini, and Jeff Tranchemontagne at Cambrian College is licensed with a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.

“This project is made possible with funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario’s support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. To learn more about the Virtual Learning Strategy visit: https://vls.ecampusontario.ca”