Thinking outside the square

When a teacher responds to professional learning with the comment….
As a result of today, I have changed my thinking on my teaching practice. Think outside the square!!
it is powerful stuff! This teacher, alongside 20 of her peers, has been participating in an early learning project because she wanted to change her teaching practice. She was [...]

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What a difference a week makes……

A “shop corner” in a kindergarten classroom has been transformed from an unattractive, unworkable space to a highly functioning, inviting learning space. All because the teacher handed over the problem to the students who designed (see drawings in previous post) , constructed and formulated a new layout with workable routines for the shop corner.

The [...]

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A kindergarten conversation

I had a great discussion today with Linda, the Kindergarten teacher at Haberfield. She had many questions about the possibilities of changing her current pedagogy to align it more closely with the principles of early learning.
We discussed what was currently working well. This is important as often the very structure or organisation of successful learning [...]

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So what is the best way to teach early learners?

Are we asking the right questions? At the end of Day 1 of the Early Learning course with twenty-one K-2 teachers from Sydney’s Inner West, the predominant question seemed to be
So what is the best way to teach students in K-2?
Fair enough. Often as teachers, we search for the holy grail, or the right answer, [...]

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