With Acclaimed Educator, Author and Researcher Susan Stacey

Morning: Emergent Curriculum – Debunking the Myths and Creating a Shared Understanding
This workshop will explore the common myths and misapplications around Emergent Curriculum: what it is, and is not, how it translates into daily practice, and the educator’s role in the process, including the Cyle of Inquiry. We will think through and practice the journey of Emergent Curriculum, from observations and reflective dialogue to thoughtful responses to children’s ideas, questions. and theories. Through investigation of examples from real classrooms, we will create a shared understanding of Emergent Curriculum that can be taken forward into your practice.

Afternoon: A Hands-on Exploration of Pedagogical Documentation
What is the difference between documentation and pedagogical documentation? What are the many ways in which Pedagogical Documentation might be used as a tool for understanding children’s theories and ideas, for creating questions for ourselves that lead to our own professional growth, and for communicating with families and society at large the brilliance of young children’s thinking? We will explore these questions as we move through the process of creating a rough piece of documentation and engaging in dialogue with each other about the thinking involved.

Please note: Event registration fee does not include book. Copies of Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood Education: Sharing Children’s Learning and Teachers’ Thinking may be purchased by May 8 2024 and Susan will happily sign the book during lunch time. Click here to order book (opens in a new webpage).