Week 10 Portfolio Page
4.2 Describes how parents,
peers & communities may see, feel & shape young children’s early
literacy & numeracy experiences
A resource: select
& present a resource you have found or developed, providing justification
for its use when working on literacy or numeracy with very young children
As part of my professional learning, a resource I have found
very useful in illustrations of practice and considering practical applications
of the EYLF and NQS in early childhood settings is the National Quality
Standard Professional Learning Program, the NQS PLP provided by Early Childhood
Australia - http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/.
My reading blog
focused on parental and family involvement in early literacy and numeracy
learning and experiences, therefore the professional learning program is
helpful for my personal learning as it provides me with contextualised examples
of how young children’s literacy and numeracy experiences are integrated with
their social environments.
As relating to week ten’s focus of ‘technician – how do I crack this code?’ I believe that I learn
best through hearing and discussing other people’s experience and similarly children
learn best through exploratory and social learning and shared experience.
Therefore the following videos and article have helped me think about how
families and parents, children, educators and centres can form partnerships to
support learning, providing me with realistic examples to refer back to when
unsure or in need of refreshing my memory when I do not have access to examples
from professional experience (especially since I am about to complete my degree
and enter the professional world and would like to tie my knowledge together
and reflect on my learning). Apart from helping me conceptualise my ideas and
experiences, this website also offers suggestions on how to reflect, providing
reflective questions and how to observe and practice observing when viewing the
videos.
1. https://www.facebook.com/notes/national-quality-standard-professional-learning-program-nqs-plp/families-as-first-teachers-their-way/557075214334462
These articles are great for allowing educators to share ideas, the article here for example talked about the importance of creating partnerships with families and recognising the importance of parents as being the primary ‘experts’ on their child’s learning needs and not as the educator taking that away from them, but respectfully and mutually sharing ideas and valuing the expertise and knowledge that families bring to our practice.
2. http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/e-learning-videos/have-you-thought-about/
The ‘Have you thought about vignette series’ Provides
examples of practice from actual settings and ways of constructing environments
and presenting yourself as a professional. They also discuss issues in practice and ideas or current debates.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmCaC-ADc4
This video was helpful for suggesting simple ways we can
include parents in our centres more effectively and maintain strong
communication, the example given was to create a blog or online posting where
parents can keep updated about daily routines and activities in action and see
it connected with curriculum frameworks.
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYLrDiPH9sk
The reflective questions the NQS PLP (2013) suggested to
use for this video were:
- ‘What was the thing that stood out in the vignette to you?’
- ‘What questions would you like to ask?’
- The example
here of using the outdoor environment to provide literacy experiences and
structuring the ‘community’ of the learning environment within the centre was
designing a treasure hunt as a group and using maps or directions to locate items,
using literacy skills such as:
- Identifying, locating and labelling symbols
and features of the environment
- Using directional language
- Communicating ideas
- Interpreting written and spoken communication
- Interacting in a group situation
- Spatial awareness
- Hand eye coordination skills/eye tracking
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivL7SB4cY4
This video illustrated the importance of maintaining communication with
families and discussing and sharing progress, interests and daily achievements
and actively celebrating success and showing the child that there are mutually
trusting, supportive relationships so they can feel at home in the preschool
environment, like it is an extension of their family in cultural background,
beliefs and functioning.
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