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Our facilitators and associates love to write about what they are passionate about! Please browse through our articles below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the category options above the images below.
Learning Stories: Are these powerfully reflecting the learning culture of your setting? Author: Lorraine Sands
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...
Learning Stories: Tracking learning progress, making a difference in children’s learning lives….. Author: Lorraine Sands
Stories have been told ever since we could scratch marks onto cave walls. They have been powerful forever, across all cultures, all time. The ones we remember are the funny,...
Learner Identity: The ways we contribute to shaping this through the messages we share. Growing an awareness of the impact of our everyday ways of being and doing. Author: Marianne MacPherson
This quote was put up on our website a little while ago - I am not sure who wrote it. But it struck a chord with me immediately in the...
UNPACKING MY KETE: Ko Te Kore – the child has potential Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
In 2009, the Ministry of Education launched its resource Te Whatu Pōkeka, Kaupapa Māori assessment and learning exemplars. It was a resource that focused on assessment of Māori children in Māori early...
Building Resilience and the Important Place of Empathy. Author: Marianne MacPherson
Over the last several years of teaching at Pigeon Mountain Kindergarten we gave much consideration as a teaching team to the importance of Resilience in supporting children’s learning. As we...
