It’s 9am on a Tuesday – you’re knee-deep in an ocean of playdough infused carpet, paint-covered aprons, and a table…
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16 Ways Educators can help young children self-reflect & why it’s important!
How can we, as early childhood educators, help children of all ages regularly self-reflect and therefore contribute to their ongoing…
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How You Can Document Child Observations (Using methods you might not have thought of!)
When working as an educator in the early childhood profession, documenting child observations is simply a means of gathering information…
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10 Tips to Manage Daycare Paperwork!
I’m pretty sure most early years educators would agree with me if I said the administration, planning and documentation requirements of…
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Summative Assessments for Early Learning
Early childhood educators are very familiar with the requirement to observe and understand a child’s learning and development but it…
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Creating Paperless Child Portfolios (Includes Video!)
There are a lot of early childhood educators and early years teachers that use child portfolios as part of their…
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Early Childhood Programming Made Simple – Part 2 Using Observations Effectively
Welcome to Part 2 in my programming series for educators and early childhood teachers! If you missed Part 1 you…
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Early Childhood Programming Made Simple but Effective – Part 1
Programming and planning is stressing a lot of early year’s educators out at the moment and that is unfortunate because…
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Analysis, Reflection and Evaluation in Early Childhood Programming.
Australian early childhood educators are expected to develop and follow a planning cycle as well as meet EYLF (Early Years…
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Child Portfolios in Early Childhood Settings – Are they Necessary?
One of the questions I am most often asked by other educators working in the early childhood profession with the…
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