Costs:

Bookings: To enrol, please send an mail to Annika Philipp (annika.philipp@elp.co.nz)

You will find all of Alison's and Jo's workshops on this page but you can also download Jo's flyer here and Alison's flyer here.

Learning Stories revisited

All workshops of this series can be booked individually.

Kei Tua o te Pae unpacked and dusted off
Documentation is a powerful force for learning. Kei Tua o te Pae is a professional development resource that is often underused. Find the magic in your Learning Stories and use Kei Tua o te Pae to develop strong documentation practices.

Date: 26 March 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

What learning did I notice here?
Consider how dispositions drive learning and begin to deepen the learning analysis in your Learning Stories.

Date: 11 April 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Catching the threads and weaving continuity
Write Learning Stories that ‘catch’ the learning and ‘weave’ connections with prior experiences and learning, to show progress and make learning visible.

Date: 2 May 2012 - Fully Booked
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Planning for learning
We will explore how Planning Stories (Stories of Interest) can be robust documented evidence of teaching and learning that is interesting and accessible to children, teachers and families.

Date: 3 April 2012 - Fully Booked
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Date: 21 May 2012 - Fully Booked
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Exploring Social Competence

Although these workshops build on each other, you can enrol into individual workshops based on your interest in and experience with this topic.

Workshop 1: "Remember You Have to Share" - How Do Teachers Grow Children's Social Competence?
We will be considering what we mean by social competence and social literacy. What might it look like in your place?
This workshop offers an opportunity to consider recent research and the implications for our work with young children.

Date: 14 February 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore City

Workshop 2: Is this place fair? Building a culture of dignity and respect
Do we create environments where children’s rights to practice, make mistakes and express their points of view are upheld? Is making children ‘share’ helpful, ethical or useful for enabling children to succeed socially?
An opportunity to put the lens on teaching practice and teaching strategies and to think more deeply about the impact of what we say and what we do.

Date: 6 March 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Workshop 3: From problems to challenges
Participation strategies, learning language and building empathy muscles will be our main focus in this workshop.
This will be a time to discuss strategies that help children build their social competence and practice their social literacy repertoires.

Date: 27 March 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

Literacy

In this seminar, we will take a closer look at the Kei Tua o te Pae literacy books 16 & 17. We will discuss how teachers grow an environment in which literacy practices are nurtured and documented.

At the foundation of this day-seminar will be the introduction of a deeper understanding of the repertoire of literacy practices that children engage in and that support and strengthen their literacy.

We will discuss ways to shift the focus of teachers from a traditional view of literacy to one that recognises and values the literacy practices that babies and young children engage in everyday in every aspect of living. We will investigate multimodal literacy and will consider how portfolios move from being a monthly record to a living narrative.

In addition, we will develop common understandings about literacy that will enable children to move along familiar literacy pathways of shared experiences between home, the centre and eventually school.

Date: 29 March 2012
Time: 9am - 3pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore, Auckland

ECE Environments

This will be a fabulous day exploring many aspects of early childhood education settings. It will be a day about 'expanding possibilities 'transforming spaces', making connections to the wider world and getting back to nature. Please bring a photo of an indoor area and an outdoor area in your setting, as well as a natural resource.

Date: 5 April 2012 - cancelled

Catching the Threads and Weaving Continuity: Supporting Children to Grow as Powerful, Competent Learners

“In early childhood education, teachers develop pathways with reference to children’s developing identities as competent and confident learners and to curriculum strands (well-being, belonging, contribution, communication, and exploration) that are closely linked to local circumstances and communities.” (Kei Tua o te Pae, Book 7, p.3)

Are these pathways straight, narrow and rigid? Or are these pathways intriguing, complex and ever-changing? Can children choose which path they take?

This day will be interactive, fun, and challenging. We will look at aspects of assessment, planning and the learning environment.

Bring a child’s portfolio.

Date: 16 February 2012
Time: 9am - 3pm
Venue: Bays Community Centre, 2 Glen Road, Browns Bay, North Shore City

Learning Stories Series

Workshop 1: Finding the Story
How can we document children’s learning in a way that is meaningful, effective, do-able, fun, inclusive and makes a difference?
We have found Learning Stories fit the bill!!! In these workshops (Finding the Story & Recognising the Landscape) we will look at what is a Learning Story, how to find the “story” using narrative, finding your voice as a writer, including children and whānau, making your stories fun to read and write.

Date: 30 April 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: St Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby

Workshop 2: Recognising the Landscape
We will focus on the analysis of the learning as it relates to the narrative. We will discuss and develop reflective writing, shifts in children’s thinking and making the teaching and the learning visible.
We will also take a look at dispositions, what learning is going on here – the learning analysis. There will also be opportunities for people to raise questions and discuss issues.

Date: 7 May 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: St Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby

Workshop 3: Taking flight
This workshop builds on the previous two, where we explore how to respond to the learning that we have documented – there will be an opportunity to bring, share and discuss examples of recent Learning Stories you have written. We will look at the connections between stories and how the whole portfolio paints a picture of the child and their learning journey. We will look at how stories support planning for individual, as well as groups of children.

Date: 14 May 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: St Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby

Social Competence workshop

We will be considering what we mean by social competence and social literacy. What might it look like in your place? Do we create environments where children’s rights to practice, make mistakes and express their points of view are upheld? Is making children ‘share’ helpful, ethical or useful for enabling children to succeed socially? This workshop offers an opportunity to consider recent research and the implications for our work with young children and put the lens on teaching practice and teaching strategies.

Date: 22 May 2012
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: St Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby

Digital Story Telling - cancelled

When enroling into this workshop series, please make sure that for part II and part III you book into the course relating to the operating system you use (PC or Mac).

Part I: Digital Story Telling - an introduction
Digital Story Telling is a fantastic way to involve children in authentic early literacy experiences. We will work on ways to support children’s oral, visual and written literacy through story telling with a range of computer programmes.

Part II: Digital Story Telling - Mac or PC
In this workshop we will put theory into practice and learn how to use some of the software we talked about in the last workshop.
Please select either the Mac or the PC workshop.

Part III: Digital Story Telling - part III / Mac or PC
In this workshop we will put theory into practice and learn how to use some of the software we talked about in the first workshop.
Please select either the Mac or the PC workshop.

ICT Series - cancelled

All workshops of this series can be booked individually.

Comic Life - Getting the most out of your documentation
Comic Life is a fabulous programme which will free you up to spend less time on formatting your Learning Story and spend more time on what is really important, the writing of your story.

Movie Making - iMovie / for Mac users
This workshop is an introduction to making movies with iMovie and is suitable for those people who use ‘Mac’ computers. Bring along some footage you have taken ready to download and your laptop – we will share with you our vision of movie making, how we see movie making as an extension of Learning Stories and how potent a medium it is for children to use. If you have bring a movie camera (rather than a digital still with movie function) also bring along cables to connect your movie camera to download your movie.

Movie Making - MovieMaker / for PC users
This workshop is an introduction to making movies with MovieMaker and is suitable for those people who use ‘PC’ computers. Please bring along some footage you have taken ready to download, your laptop and power cables and, if you have, a movie camera (rather than a digital still with movie function) also bring USB 2 or fire-wire
cables to download your movie. Your PC will have to have either a fire-wire or USB port.