He Māpuna te Tamaiti - Social Emotional Competencies

 He Māpuna te Tamaiti - Social Emotional Competencies Zoom Hui workshop with Lorrraine Sands

My learning stories are written as past tense stories, I am not always writing directly to the child when I retell the event. I do try to inclued lots of learners voice, writing their dialogue in story form. Wrting shorter stories directly to the tamaiti will help strengthen the connection our tamariki have to their learning stories. Example learning stories the kaiako writes "You are.....

Using lots of verbs to describe their learning and dispositions.

Effective Internal Evaluation Document:

Empathy books to show/demonstrate to our tamariki a specific scenario, they can include different parties perspectivies. Topics: tidy up time, too much TV, want to try this with Ch-R to help her see her behaviour and how it affects others as well as her own happiness and wellbeing during the day. It's like how Pania uses a story with her when she is in the "redzone", and it helps get her attention and reset her away from negative emotions.

Ruth Beaglehole

"Creating The Thinker" Nathan Mikaere Wallis. The strength of ako. Our learning stories should reflect that, by encouraging creativity, thinking.

 

Ureia - Tīkapa Moana o Hauraki

 

He Māpuna te Tamaiti PD 2021

 

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Some questions:

Do parents believe their child "behaves" better for us teachers at our learning centre than at home?

Do we let parents know we have challenging moments with their children and share our strategies with them?

In trying to keep a positive learning environment are we hiding some of our frustrations or challenging moments from whānau. Would they be offended or relate to this?

Reflections / feedback from session 2.

Use: I wonder what happened ? vs What's wrong ?

Whanaungatanga - An early childhood perspective

Whanaungatanga - An early childhood perspective

I wanted to learn which strands of Te Whāriki does whanaunga relate to, or how it sits within Te Whāriki - for example as a value. This reading helped give the term more context within ECE setting.

Whanaungatanga approach is consistent with the early childhood curriculum strand of Belonging|Mana whenua. To achieve a high quality learning environment, a sense of belonging and identity is not only important for Mäori learners, but all learners in early childhood settings. "In the learning context, whanaungatanga demands a focus on the quality of teaching-learning relationships and interactions, and the agency of the teacher in establishing a whanau-like context that supports engagement and learning.” (Bishop, Ladwig & Berryman, 2014, p. 28)."

My CNY learning story educa   PDF learning story link