Early Years Documentation

documentation processes and recordings of children's work

nature education

Claire Warden is the founder of Scotlands first Nature Kindergarten. She leads on the debate of Outdoor Play and Outdoor Learning. She is an inpirational keynote speaker in the field of early years childhood education. Passionate about outdoor learning, forest school and nature kindergarten forms of provision.

Claire Warden is the founder of Scotlands first Nature Kindergarten. She leads on the debate of Outdoor Play and Outdoor Learning. She is an inpirational keynote speaker in the field of early years childhood education. Passionate about outdoor learning, forest school and nature kindergarten forms of provision.

AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, GENUINE DRAWINGS WELCOME! Chances are good this is your first time here. WELCOME! In my travels across the country wearing my author-illustrator hat, I see an entire continuum of children's work. Children's art. Children's crafted projects. Children's "craftivities."

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This article discusses how teachers in child care and elementary schools learn to work with Reggio-inspired pedagogical documentation. While teachers grasp the value of such documentation theoretically, it is most challenging but exciting to use in practical settings. Documentation illuminates teacher theories about children's understanding: watching such theories change through study of documentation and further teacher research profoundly influences professional development.

The Power of The Power of Documentation in the Early Childhood Classroom A parent eyes something on the wall in the hallway near her child's classroom. She stops and looks across the entire wall, as if trying to determine where to start. She moves to the left a bit and scans the bulletin board posted farther down.

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By: Diane Kashin, Ed.D, RECE. I have been an ardent proponent of emergent curriculum in early childhood education well before I became Reggio inspired. In the early nineties I became aware of the work of Elizabeth Jones and John Nimmo and used their textbook, Emergent Curriculum as the foundation for the curriculum courses that I taught to...

If you walk into JJ Purton Jones' room you will see students doing a whole lot of different things at the same time. There are some students working on their reading, others are tackling maths and then a few more writing. In fact each and everyone of them could be working on something different.

By: Diane Kashin, Ed.D, RECE. Perspective is a fascinating word for the many ways that it can be defined. I have been thinking a lot about the impact of perspective on my practice as a Reggio inspired educator after my recent trip to Sweden.

Parents are a vital component to the philosophy in our school. Parents are viewed as partners, collaborators and advocates for their children. One way that we foster this relationship is by hosting four major festivals in our school every year.

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by TeachThought Staff Whole Child Learning is a thing; Whole Teaching should be a thing too, no? Here at TeachThought, Jackie Gerstein's usergeneratededucation is at the top of our reading list, in large part for her thinking about the human side of formal education.