Online Learning Video: Portfolios: Progress with Purpose

Presented by Wendy Lee and Michelle Flower

1hr 45 min duration. $30.00 for 7 days rental.

Originally presented as part of the 2022 Learning Stories Conference.

Portfolios are an ideal opportunity to make learning progress visible not only to mokopuna, but to the wider whānau and kaiako. Porfolios of children’s learning in ECE document the ways in which kaiako and whānau co-construct unique tracks through the very complex, interesting and interwoven learning environments of people, places and tasks over time. They illuminate learning for all, and strengthen connections between the setting and the wider ECE community. In this way, the ECE setting can use Learning Stories to provide mokopuna and whānau with documented evidence of lifelong learners, who willingly engage with new contexts, opportunities and challenges with both optimism and resourcefulness, as stated inside Te Whāriki.

The portfolio demonstrates the opportunities for mokopuna to set their own goals and illustrates both the development of children’s desire to learn and their joy of learning. It is from this that they become lifelong learners. We hope this workshop will be an opportunity to explore and interrogate the richness and depth of a variety of documentation that a tamariki portfolio might contain to enrich this journey of learning.