You're Telling The Story

Name: You're Telling The Story
SKU: TS0112
Price: 39.95 NZD
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Author: Janet Moles
ISBN: 9781925145120

How to develop useful assessments for learning in early childhood

By
Janet Moles

You're Telling the Story provides early childhood educators with practical, user-friendly strategies for making documentation work for them, enabling them to work smarter, not harder, while improving teaching practice and outcomes for children. The documentation created for children needs to tell a story. To have authenticity, it needs to show a sense of place, time and continuity - the practice of making links to previous learning behaviours or actions. Learning stories provide the ingredients of the history of a child as a learner and enable us to see what is actually occurring. The learning stories in this book are all written to the child, not about them, leading to a powerful way of rethinking about assessment.

Ages: 2-5 | Pages: 54 | Code: TS0112 | ISBN: 9781925145120

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Janet Moles

Janet Moles was a senior lecturer of education (early childhood) and course director in the School of Education at Deakin University. She has had extensive experience teaching in early childhood education settings in New Zealand, and has taught in the polytechnic and university sectors, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as supervising higher degree research students.

Her research work has focused on multicultural perspectives in curriculum development to create learning environments that incorporate the funds of knowledge of children, families and communities. This drew on her PhD research, which sought to increase the voice of ethnic minority preservice teachers.
Janet has taken leadership roles in many early childhood service types including education and care, special education and kindergarten. This led to her forming her own company to provide centre-based professional development for in-service teachers, specialising in curriculum development, learning stories, leadership and program evaluation.

Contents
Acknowledgments	4
Chapter 1: It’s all about the way you see it ...	5
Dealing with dilemmas in early childhood education	5
It’s planning, but not as you know it.	6
Chapter review and reflection	7
Chapter 2: It’s all about the way you tell it ...	8
Spinning a good yarn	8
Unravelling the learning story	8
Chapter review and reflection	14
Chapter 3: It’s all about the way you think about it ...	15
Sociocultural perspectives	15
Making connections – making meaning	17
A framework for assessment	18
Constructing evidence	19
Chapter review and reflection	23
Chapter 4: It’s all about the way we listen ...	25
Hearing voices	25
Developing competent learners	27
Chapter review and reflection	29
Chapter 5: It’s all about the way we look for it ...	30
Evidence of play-based pedagogies	32
Critical reflection for educators	34
Chapter review and reflection	35
Chapter 6: It’s all about looking into the magic mirror ...	36
Undoing the puzzle –or deconstructing documentation	38
Chapter review and reflection	40
Chapter 7: It’s all about the way we pull it together ...	41
Philosophy	41
Program planning	45
Chapter review and reflection	49
Chapter 8: The story continues ...	50
References	52