Sample Lessons and Resources

Talking Floor Books

This narrated video highlights a form of documentation developed by Claire Warden of Mindstretchers ™, Perthshire, Scotland. The concept of the talking floor books was developed by Claire Warden. This video discusses how they are applicable to documentation of children’s learning and planning in collaboration with children.

Curriculum Approaches and Pedagogies

Curriculum Approaches and Pedagogies is also a narrated video and one of a series of tutorials for Introduction to Pedagogical Leadership that I developed and is taught in both the undergraduate and masters courses as part of the Early Childhood program at UWS.

Documenting Learning Programs and Environments

Documenting Learning Programs and Environments is a PDF of a Powerpoint presentation and one of series of tutorial sessions for Learning Environments – an undergraduate subject in the UWS Bachelor of Arts Pathway to Teaching Birth to 12 Years program.

Learning Environments Week 6 iBook

Place-Based Pedagogies and Sustainability Learning is also part of the Learning Environments course. This is a PDF version of the iBook. A live link to the iBook is included below. The iBook contains photo galleries, pop-ups, movies and song files.

 

Click here to download a copy of the above iBook from my Google Drive. Please be patient. This file is nearly 200MB and will take a few minutes to download.

Educators in Chile creating images of the child in community and family context using

modelling wax on perspex

3D Collage Representations of Important Elements of Place for Children