Communication With Families During COVID-19
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Sonya McIntyre
1y ago
Communication With Families During COVID-19 Communication with families during COVID-19 restrictions is challenging to say the least! Preparing for and teaching through restrictions is something that educators all across the world are experiencing. An essential part of the work that you do is having open and trusting relationships with a child’s parents, but when there are barriers to communication (such as a worldwide pandemic) you want to find simple ways to bridge that gap, that doesn’t add to your already massive workload! We caught up with Kathy from Andrew Fleck Children’s Services, and ..read more
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Competitions and Giveaways
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Storypark
1y ago
By participating in any competition or giveaway advertised by Storypark on our LinkedIn or Facebook profiles, you confirm that you accept and agree to these competition terms. The Promoter of the Competition is Storypark Limited. The Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook or LinkedIn. You completely release Facebook/LinkedIn from any and all liability associated with this Competition. If the Competition is limited to a specific customer segment, this will be specified in the competition’s Facebook and LinkedIn posts. Employees of Storypark ..read more
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RIE – Respectful care with infants
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Sonya McIntyre
2y ago
   “The application of Emmi Pikler’s respectful and affectionate image of the baby has helped babies to develop well, and adults to change their internal representations of the baby’s capacities and their role as care providers.”   (Introducing the Piklerian Developmental Approach: History and Principles, The Signal World Association for Infant Mental Health Newsletter 2010). When working with the youngest of children, the importance of respectful care practices cannot be highlighted enough as an indicator of quality. You may have heard of the RIE approach to early chi ..read more
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Researching children’s interests
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Sonya McIntyre
2y ago
Researching children’s interests Researching children’s interests is part and parcel of our work as educators. But do we often rush to make assumptions about what they are truly interested in, without really digging below the surface? If we rush this process, we can make the mistake of veering off course with our programming, and miss the opportunity to deepen children’s learning. Picture this. Think about a child who regularly packs backpacks with plastic food and empty food boxes, then lays out the contents of the bag as if he or she is having a picnic. This child may do this day in and day ..read more
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New! Digital Documentation Learning Modules
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by Sonya McIntyre
3y ago
Storypark and Early Childhood Australia launch a series of digital documentation learning modules that support best teaching practice for educators and maximum impact for young children In 2019, Storypark embarked on a new project with Early Childhood Australia (ECA), to develop a suite of three digital documentation learning modules. The modules are titled “Engaging with digital documentation and technology”. After much hard work and research, the modules have just been launched. They provide a valuable learning opportunity for early childhood educators, supporting them to get the most out of ..read more
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Plan for everything from QIPs to appraisals with Storypark’s planning tools
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Guest Contributor
3y ago
Shirley Fyfe from East Sale Kindergarten shares her experiences with using the new Storypark planning tool, and the outcomes the service has seen since using planning across all aspects of their service. East Sale Kindergarten is located at the RAAF base in Victoria, Australia, and is a non-profit cluster-managed service providing sessional 3 and 4-year-old Kindergarten to children in the local community. *Names in example plans have been changed for anonymity Planning for children’s learning before Storypark’s tool Several years ago, the overall children’s planning was documented on pape ..read more
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Art explorations for early learners
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Storypark
3y ago
Art is often about the process, rather than the product – which is particularly important to remember when doing art activities with young children. As early childhood educators, we’re all familiar with the idea that if the end products all look identical, there probably hasn’t been much learning, creativity or imagination taking place. Pre K + K Sharing put it nicely as process art being open-ended, exploratory, unique and individual, and product art being close-ended, instruction-heavy, structured and modelled. We can encourage and provoke process driven art by providing open-ended resources ..read more
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Resources to support children after an earthquake
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Sonya McIntyre
3y ago
A large earthquake is an extremely terrifying and unsettling act of nature that even we as adults, can find impacts on us in the days and weeks afterwards. It is only to be expected then, that children of all ages can also be affected in a range of ways. It is hard to know exactly how each child may process such a frightening experience, and to what degree it may impact on their emotions, fears, and understandings of what happened. Children may seem to be cool, calm and collected, but there may be confused thoughts and feelings bubbling away inside. Here are a few resources that both families ..read more
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Including all children – the criteria is breathing
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Storypark
3y ago
Recently on our new early learning web series “Mat Time” we interviewed Janet Dixon, who is an early learning educator and mentor, as well as a researcher, author and advocate for including all children. We talked to Janet about the skills early childhood teachers already have to be inclusive of all children and to be supportive of the families of these children. She also gave us some tips for resources as well as sharing a touching story about how one person can make a huge difference in the life of someone who has been deemed to be ‘different’. Watch the interview here, and make sure you sub ..read more
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Supporting a child’s transition from kindergarten to school
Storypark | Early childhood education insights
by Storypark
3y ago
Recently on our new early learning web series “Mat Time” we interviewed Carol Hartley, who is the head teacher at Mangere Bridge Kindergarten in Auckland, New Zealand. Carol was part of a 10 year research project about supporting children from early childhood to primary school, and helped author a book on transitions called ‘Crossing The Border – a community negotiates the transition from early childhood to primary school’. Carol shared in our interview some easy and actionable tips for teachers and families to help make the transition process a positive one for children. Watch the interview h ..read more
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