by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Learning Stories
My teaching career began in the 1970s in a New Zealand kindergarten. There were 120 children on a roll, plus a group of five profoundly deaf children. by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
The journey needs a vehicle, a way of taking this thoughtful gaze and giving it a focussed context. Inquiry Research helps us do this. When teams set a reflective question and methodically go about the task of answering it, they explore together aspects of their... by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
What busy lives we lead. Always rushing from here to there, structuring our days, and time, to fit as much in as possible. Where does all of this over-scheduling leave us in terms of connecting? Connecting with the children we work with? And why is connecting so... by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Pedagogy
Connection, with each other and with our environments, is crucial to the act of learning, and thus as teachers we must strive to improve the connections for children in our care with the people, places and things in their world. by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Learning Stories
Just as the word ‘curriculum’ became so much part of early childhood discourse ten years ago, so ‘Learning Stories’ is slipping easily off the tongue in early childhood circles these days. In New Zealand, at least, most of us now know what... by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Learning Stories
Learning Stories are teachers individualised planning for children. Teachers write the narrative (story) followed by an analysis and then think how to grow this learning further (planning). These three parts are what Margaret Carr considers narrative assessment and...