Over the threshold
Treating a student like any respected new worker in the nursery is the key to a productive placement all round, as Mary Evans explains
Placements for childcare students are meant to be a golden learning opportunity. But sometimes the dream turns to a nightmare, as when the students claim to have been treated as skivvies or the nursery managers protest that they have been skiving.
The commonest pitfall seems to be poor communication. Students are ignorant of how they are expected to behave and childcare settings are unclear about the extent of the work which has to be undertaken and how it should be supervised.
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