A colleague suggested looking at Educa Webinars. So I signed up for a series on Learning Stories which is a current focus of my professional learning - as I have recently started working as an ECE teacher and am wanting to get started writing meaningful learning stories.
Notes:
Webinar Series by Wendy Lee based on book Learning Stories in Practise1990s Margarete Carr - came up with new form of assessment 'Learning Stories' as world first socio-cultural curriculum was developed here in Aotearoa NZ.
- Learning Stories - personalized learning, progress over time, formative assessment.
NOTICE - RECOGNISE - RESPOND
- Notice - the story, the photos
- Recognise - teacher analysis what learning is happening
- Respond - future learning, next steps
- The story should make sense to teacher/whānau/learner
- Capturing the brilliance of a child
- Write with heart and wonder
- These stories last a lifetime
- What learning is happening? Connections to wider world, Maths, empathy, social/emotional development, creative expression.
What Makes A Powerful Story:
- Context, set the scene
- Focus on what is significant
- Audience in mind - directly to child or both family and child
- Variety - differing views of the world
- Over time - one day or several occasions observed
We must be careful to be in our learning best when we are around young learners. Especially those that admire us. Their heroes are the habits they will find most contagious.
LEARNING DISPOSITIONS
- Essential for life-long learner outcome of our ed system
- Attitudes
- Ways we respond
- acquired early
- motivation to explore world
- nurturing critical
- can be fostered, learned, taught
- Can be positive of negative
- Recognised in OECD countries
- Turns skills into action!
STRANDS: Mana whenua/Belonging, Mana Atua/Well-Being, Mana Aoturoa/Exploration, Mana Reo/ Communication, Mana Tangata/ Participation Communication
DISPOSITIONS:
What are my 5 dispositions?
Curiosity towards world around us - engage in nature
Empathy towards self others
CREATIVITY - Wonder / magic / joy in trying/learning something new/using body/playing
Helpfulness participation in real world context
Patience/focus/engagement
NOTICE - RECOGNISE - RESPOND - RECORD - REVISIT - REVIEW
- You should be able to respond instantly vs long term planning
- Teachers more intuitive/responsive/spontaneous 'in the moment'
- Close the gap between notice - respond
- Portfolios help children recognise the learning journey they are on - Learning to learn!
- Write to the children and write from the heart!
- Use Educa forms to record, revisit, review etc
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