Our October Rally was a great success and we would like to get your feedback and give you the opportunity to continue the discussions.
Here are the 5 topics that we discussed. Please post your comments or any questions that you might have.
1. Creating a Nourishing Classroom:
- Involve children in welcoming families
- Honor each family’s uniqueness
- Invest in relationships with the whole family
-Keep children connected to their families
- Focus on relationships, not rules
- Arrange your space and routines to promote community
- Give children ownership of routines and schedules
- Use children’s ideas to pursue investigations
- Help children see themselves as learners
- Coach children to develop negotiation and collaboration skills
- Develop rituals that create memories
- Celebrate real accomplishments
2. Principles for Examining the Elements and Possibilities in Materials
Select materials using an enhanced view of children
Invent new possibilities for familiar materials
Draw on the aesthetic qualities of materials
Choose materials that can be transformed
Provide real tools and quality materials
Supply materials to extend children’s interests
Layer materials to offer complexity
* Principles for Arranging Materials as Invitations for Focus and Intention
Create orderly, beautiful arrangements
Provide a background for the materials
Store diverse items in matching containers
Group together similar materials with different attributes
Give attention to size, scaled, and levels
Arrange materials to suggest how they might be used
Reposition materials to spark a new interest
Display books and other visual representation with the materials
Offer collections of materials to highlight a learning domain
3.Bringing Yourself to the Teaching and Learning Process
- Claim your power
- Think through your dreams
- Know your teacher scripts
- Know your professional influences
- Know your theoretical influences
- Cultivate a mindset of receptivity
- Seek the child’s point of view
- Notice the details to discover more possibilities
- Share conversations following the children’s lead
- Support children’s connections with each other
- Take action on behalf of children’s strengths
4. Coaching Children to Learn about Learning
o Help children see learning as a process with distinct components they can practice
o Invite children to assess their own learning
o Coach children to use tools and strategies for learning
o Plan coaching sessions separately from playtime
o Help children use reference materials to support their learning
o Teach children to look closely
o Teach children to draw in order to see more clearly
o Offer stories and dramas as tools for coaching
o Support children to learn from their friends
5.Digging Deeper to Learn with Children
o Challenge children to go a step further in their pursuits
o Help children represent their ideas with multiple material
o Tap into children’s love of songs and music
o Harness children’s instinctive drive to use their bodies
o Draw on children’s attention for the natural world
o Explore children’s theories for deeper learning
o Reflect children’s ideas back to them with documentation
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