This document provides guidance for early childhood centers on conducting self-reviews to evaluate their programs and make improvements. It outlines a process that involves gathering information from various sources, preparing by identifying what will be reviewed, reflecting on what is working well and what can be improved, deciding on actions to take, and documenting progress to make sense of findings and determine future goals.

1. SELF REVIEW AT A GLANCE
Dalene Mactier, NZPF PD [2014]
REFLECT, REVIEW, REWORK
 What’s working well?
 What are the challenges?
 What is changing for our tamariki?
 How are we meeting our desired outcomes?
 How can we tweak it to make our review more
effective?
DECIDE
What actions will we take?
 What changes will we make to the environment?
 What experiences can we offer to our tamariki?
 What can the adults learn to do differently?
 How will we document our progress?
MAKE SENSE
 What did we find out?
 What's possible?
 What would we like to grow?
 What do we want to see happen? What are the
desired outcomes?
GATHER
What do we need to find out before we make decisions?
 Look in: What do we currently do? What do our members say?
What do our tamariki do?
 Look out: What are other centres doing? What does the association
say?
 Look at the experts: Articles, websites, attend a workshop
PREPARE
 What will we review?
 What is working?
 What would we like to improve?
 What do we know about this?

2. SELF REVIEW FOCUS:
Dalene Mactier, NZPF PD [2014]
REFLECT, REVIEW, REWORK
DECIDE
MAKE SENSE
GATHER
PREPARE