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Shining a New Lightonline series
Learning Outcome 4Children are confident and involved learners
2011with Sue Inglis
Growing Early Childhood
What would we notice about a child who was confident and involved in their learning?
BabyToddler
PreschoolerSchool age
Reflection time…Consider your
setting…
Children develop
Dispositions for learning
Curiosity
Cooperation
confidence
creativity
commitment
enthusiasm
Persistence
imagination
Reflexivity (reflect on their own learning)
Children develop skills and processes
for learning
Problem solving
Problem solving
Danielle poured sand into thefunnel but nothing came out.Last time she did this the sandpoured out the bottom of the funnel.
"Why won't the sand come out?"
"It's stuck"
Poking down the funnel didn't work so Danielle tried poking upthe funnel.
Success !
Learning Outcomes
1. be open to new challenges anddiscoveries
4. use play to investigate, imagine and explore ideas
4. persevere and experience the satisfaction of achievement
4. use reflective thinking to consider why things happen and what can be learnt from these experiences
Shared inquiry
Experimenting
Hypothesising
The Diary of Laura1983
(Edwards and Rinaldi 2009)
Reggio Emilia
Researching
investigating
investigating
Exploring their environment
• Part 2 of Shining a New Light no 4
Sometimes it is easier to appreciate the importance of reaching the learning outcomes when we consider
what happens to children who are not demonstrating the outcomes we have for them.
Healthy growth requires the right conditions
The seed has a lot of potential
A child is born with a lot of potential as a learner
Play is nature’s way of ensuring children learn.
What are the ideal conditions for a child to flourish into a confident and involved learner?
How can we help children to be confident and involved learners?
• Reflect on our practices• Plan learning environments• Interact to support and extend learning• Document children’s learning(Arthur 2010)
Reflect on our practices
Following the child’s interestResponsiveness to children and
CollaborationAgency
Strengths based approachFlexibility
Intentional teachingAuthentic learning
TransitionsCulture and family
Ongoing learning and reflection
ORANGE DAY!
Confident and involved learners?
Plan learning environments
Plan learning environments
Interact to support and extend learning
Document children’s learning12 August 2011- Sam , Logan and Jules have been engrossed in the car game that emerged from Logan having a new car at home. For a week or two now they have been using outdoor play time to move materials around in the playground and have asked daily for the toy cars to build on their thinking. I have noticed that they are talking about having a garage for their cars.
19th August 2011- The addition of the boxes has really enhanced the play for the boys. They are now adding to the play by using the boxes to represent garages and the outdoor planks to representthe roads.
21st August 2011- Moving the blocks into the outdoor space has encouraged lots of involved learning that builds on the earlier ideas of owning cars and garages and driving on roads. The boys have been joinedby Will and together they have been engrossed in creating homes and roads with the blocks and exploring theirunderstandings of their worlds.This exploration has been accompaniedby lots of discussion and decision making.
The children are using creativity and imagination to recreate their
family experiences.
They are resourcing their
own learning and transferring and adapting what
they have learned from one context
to another.
Educators provided boxes to extend
children’s play
Educators moved
blocks to theOutdoor
space and
provided lino square
Focus on children’s interests and strengths
• as a way of respecting children• of engaging them• of extending their learning• To build their confidence• As a way to support their areas of need.
Play Based Learning…. What are children learning?
• As educators it is our role to be aware of the value of play and to be able to reflect on the development and learning that is taking place as children engage in experiences.
• What are the learning outcomes for them?• How can we plan to extend on it?