Learning Story Exemplars
He tauira Kōrero Ako
On this page you will find Learning Stories from Aotearoa/New Zealand, and from all over the world. Some of these stories come from previous Celebrating Learning Stories conferences, others have been written and shared with ELP as part of teachers’s learning journeys. We hope that you can enjoy these stories, and find inspiration in writing your own!
Please also take a look at our ELP Learning Story Assessment Facebook Group. This group has been created by ELP as a place for teachers to share Learning Stories. Important: please remember to seek parental permission if the learning story has a photo or alternatively take out or blur the photo before uploading.
Browse through the stories below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the options below on the right.
The Puzzling Photo. By Michelle Johnson
Visiting an art gallery and being challenged, using that superpower brain of yours and seeing the world in a different way.
...The more you look, the more you see. By Michelle Johnson
The more we look, the more we see and move past the assumptions we make about our world.
Learning Story for Harrison – Real Work. By Lynn Rupe
Working collaboratively as a team to get an important job done.
...Jack’s Learning to show more complexity. By Carol Marks
Here you are Jack learning through one of your favourite interests, trains and train tracks. I have noticed that as time has passed, your tracks are longer, higher, they are...
Giraffes can’t dance. By Jo Colbert
Since you were born you have had books read to you, so it comes as no surprise to see you are now beginning to ‘read’ the books yourself.
Photographic Learning Story. By Marianne MacPherson
This morning as you arrived at Kindergarten your good friend Emma was busy taking photos. After she took your photo I asked if you would like to take some photos...
Engineering the perfect goal. By Catalina Thompson
Ordinary objects have the potential to come to life in the hands of extraordinary minds. I witnessed this in action today as James and Mason teamed up to engineer the...
My Mum and I. By Kellie Warren and Lisa Watkins
Summer, I could see you having a kōrero with Autumn and just had to video the lovely interaction between you both.
The Atua with MY Dad! By Kellie Warren and Lisa Watkins
At the beginning of the week Moko, I watched you quietly sitting on your Dad's lap, fascinated as he told you the karakia of the Atua. A father passing his knowledge down...