Understanding Teaching Inquiry

When you think of learning for young children, what comes to mind? What does learning REALLY look like? The challenge for teachers is to notice what is meaningful learning for children, not ourselves and capture this. Looking and thinking more deeply takes time, dedication and intelligent observation. It is the key to uncovering what is truly important to a child. During any day we can notice hundreds of things that children are doing. Through professional expertise and judgement we can recognise many of these things as meaningful learning. We must then respond to the learning we have recognised in order to support and extend it for children.

Where is assessment moving to in ECE? What are Learning Notes? Do you show threads of learning, interconnected and linked in your assessment? Do you want to work smarter and not harder?