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How Can I Continue to Grow as an Educator?
Professional learning is ongoing learning that provokes thinking, reflection, and ensures that your practice is current and innovative.
This page will support you in exploring new ideas and reflective processes as you continue to learn as a professional.
What is Reflective Practice?
Using the Thinking Lens
Thinking lens - bilingual.pdfA-Thinking-Lens-for-Reflection-and-Inquiry.pdf Thinking Lens tool for educators.pdfTool for Reflective Educators
As you reflect on your observations, having a tool to break down your thinking can be helpful. Try using these reflective questions to guide you as you plan for experiences with your children and to reflect for documentation purposes.
Supporting Educator Reflective Thinking
The Art of Observation
Learn About The Art of Observation
Welcome to this educational video about the art of observation in childcare. We'll explore the importance of observation in early childhood education, the tools you need, how to observe, and what to do with your observations.
The Flight Framework Website has a variety of tools, posters, brochures and a direct link to the document.
Dispositions mindmap with nurturing.pdfDispositions to Learn
In early childhood education, a disposition to learn refers to the inherent attitudes, habits, and tendencies that influence how a child approaches learning experiences. These dispositions include persistence, play, caring, participating, and seeking. Nurturing these positive learning dispositions helps educators support children in developing a lifelong love for learning and the resilience to navigate future educational experiences.
ImageofEducator.pdfMaryam Naddaf, the director of Frog Hollow, a Reggio-inspired Learning Centre, has embraced a Reggio Emilia approach for the past decade, focusing on key elements such as a rich image of the child and flexibility within their programming for children and families. Naddaf shares her opinions regarding the image of an educator and provides a foundation for personal reflection regarding the image of an educator.
Resources and Online Professional Learning Opportunities
Early Childhood Investigations Webinars
Free online webinars
Continuous Professional Learning for Early Childhood Educators
Diane Kashin is a leader in Emergent curriculum and inquiry based teaching. Her blog provides a variety of articles and learning opportunities to educators and leaders in Early Learning. Topics include reflection and documentation, classroom as the third teacher,
In the video here, Dr. Carol Ann Wien speaks about the habits and the steps to documentation. She speaks about the reasons to document and our role in following children's wonder to make meaning of what we see.
Listen to Dr. Carol Ann Wien give a lecture about documentation at the University of New Brunswick
The Promise of Pedagogical Documentation
Wendy was invited to Canada to be interviewed about her work on Learning Stories by Larry Prochner and Anna Kirova, both Professors of Education from the University of Alberta. Educational Leadership Project is proud to be able to share this conversation with you, as a series of seven videos.
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