Early Years Documentation

I certainly don't mean to. I visit different centres, and sometimes this means entering the spaces of infants and young toddlers. When I walk into a nursery, I sense a shift in the atmosphere. There is a stranger in the room. A 5 ft 11" giant.

Welcome to reading one of my assignments from my Masters in Early Childhood. Its a longer read than usual - but I have added some photos along the way... Introduction In this assignment I am going to discuss Loris Malaguzzi (1921-1994), an educator from Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.

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Primary school teachers and other educators can use this free tool to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. If you find this tool useful, please bookmark it for later use, and recommend it to your friends and teaching colleagues. Further primary school and teaching resources coming soon.

I recently went to Rochester, NY to attend a conference at the Strong National Museum of Play entitled, Playful Encounters with the Reggio Emilia Approach. Keynote speakers included Lella Gandini (United States Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education and coauthor of Hundred Languages of Children) and Ben Mardell (Project Director of the Pedagogy of Play, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education).

Artful Thinking helps teachers use works of visual art and music in ways that strengthen student thinking and learning in the arts and beyond. The goals of this program are to help teachers create connections between works of art and the curriculum, and to help teachers use art as a force for developing students' thinking dispositions.

In a world where technology surrounds us more and more, the temptation to text and type has never been greater. Just think about the number of devices you have lying around your home; tablets, smartphones and computers have quickly become everyday gadgets.

We want our students to acquire the skills necessary to make good choices in their future. In order to develop those skills, a trusted colleague told me that we must create safe places where students can make mistakes.

Well, the never-ending planning battle continues! How do we go from the year plan, to planning a week or day?? I was talking to a friend of mine who is currently on the education journey that we have all been on to get us to this point.

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Melanie Lynchuk I've been racking my brain for the past few weeks, trying to figure out how to create a template for a week plan that reflects the year plan I created. I think I've come up with something that I will be putting into motion when I return to work in January following my maternity leave (tear).

Planning is a never ending battle all teachers face. I always feel the biggest hit at the beginning of the year, when you have to submit your year plan to administration. I find it somewhat difficu...

Children who spend more time in less structured activities-from playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo-are better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

I was surprised by the number of slides tweeted from a recent literacy conference that lacked a sense of visual literacy. Even the most seasoned presenters sometimes seem unaware of the negative impact their slides have on the delivery of their messages and ideas. Visual literacy has been described as 'the ability to interpret, negotiate, and...

It has a been a very long and very busy week of classroom preparations, but it has been so worth it. On Monday we gained access to the building to start creating our physical environment and meet our teams! When we arrived the room was a beautiful blank slate.

Its been interesting to have been away from the preschool for a couple of weeks and to return to it again with eyes that have been exposed to settings in Canada. I can very much see our "Swedishness" in the rooms. Which is a good thing. We should reflect our own context.