A group of enthusiastic Early Childhood Teachers travelled by bus to Matakana, one hour north of Auckland, on March 27th, to spend a day visiting and sharing with the teachers of The Crib. This is a small, ten children, Infant and Toddler centre.
Here is one teacher’s Personal Reflections on The Crib.
Early this year it became apparent that we needed to give more attention to how we managed our transitions between the three centres. Little incidents indicated that we needed to give attention to our practices between teachers and teachers, teachers and children, and teachers and parents. We had in place a meeting point – where the three supervisors and manager met weekly to plan and discuss centre issues. ‘Transitions’ became an area for reflection with the possibility of development and change.
REANZ our story, 2 Dec 09 REANZ Inspiration Centres report, Nov 09
Overhead projector The Sophia Preschool, Taranaki, NZ. Here are some images of the children in a natural environment, exploring light, colour and nature.
Landscape of Rights – Adelaide July 2009
A Journey Into the Rights of Children Bruna Elena Giacopini
Bruna Elena lives in Reggio Emilia and works as a pedagogista for the Municipal infant toddler centres and preschools. She has a PhD in pedagogy and this has given sense and meaning to her own professionalism in the continuous dialogue and exchange with different educational experiences at national and international level. Elena also coordinates the Remida Creative Recycling Centre.
Notes from a presentation by Per Bernmyr - by Chris Bayes
25 March 2009
We proposed:
“How can we support our teachers to unveil the hidden questions, interests and ideas – what are the tools that we encourage them to use to get to this next layer of thinking?”
By Chris Bayes
Fran Paniora and I visited Sophia Preschool recently. A small centre situated in the seaside village of Oakura, 20 minutes from New Plymouth. After being in contact with Adrienne, who set the centre up with her husband Ian, off and on now for over 3 years, I was unsure of what was waiting for us. Our emails had certainly tantalised my thinking about what might be… with stories of investigations, worries, questions and the never ending niggles of ‘are we on the right track?’.
