A Philosophical Approach
The new form of assessment is now most widely accepted in New Zealand:
What is learning stories?
This component of a learning story contains the story and photos:
What is noticing?
This can be done to help make learning stories more accessible to families with different home languages:
What is translation?
New Zealand is this kind of nation:
What is bicultural?
New Zealanders were fearful of the implementation of this:
What is curriculum?
This component of a learning story contains the analysis of learning/assessment?
What is recognizing?
There may be implications to the availability of whom within early childhood centers:
What is home language speakers?
Writing children's stories down is seen as more valuable because you can revisit and do this:
What is re-read
The government told them that they needed to rethink this:
What is assessment?
This component of a learning story asks what we can do to support and extend learning:
What is responding?
In the farm learning story, the teacher highlights this skill of the children:
What is problem solving?
Jennie Richoe says that we cannot be an expert in another person's culture if we do not share this with them:
What is cultural background?
This is the name of the early childhood curriculum adopted in New Zealand:
What is Te Whāriki?
This method links assessment with this classroom tool:
What is planning?
One way that the teacher addressed the child's culture in the learning story was by including this:
What is his home language?
The culture that New Zealand is trying to strengthen:
What is Māori?
This person was the author and educator who spoke on learning stories as a philosophy:
Who is Wendy Lee?
A learning story does not become a learning story until this happens:
What is analysis?
A child's culture cannot enter the classroom before it enters here:
What is the teacher's consciousness?
The metaphor for Te Whatu Pōkeka is a baby wrapped in a fine woven flex encased in albatross feathers that grew with the child, relating to this educational concept:
What is the curriculum growing with and being formed by the child?