Facilitating Conversations offers a wide range of professional learning opportunities for educators and teachers in early childhood education and care settings and schools.
SchemaPlay training can be offered to schools, centres or districts. Individual teachers and educators might join a series of spaced workshops. Taster sessions can also be offered.
Inquiry-led learning is a way of building children’s knowledge, concepts, skills and dispositions in a unit of inquiry that integrates the disciplinary knowledge of different fields and gives a context for literacy and numeracy.
Individuals might like to look out for our Living Projects. In conjunction with The Art Creatives, these intensive three-day experience use creative art skills and techniques to explore topics of interest, just as educators and teachers use inquiry-led processes to explore topics and issues of interest to children. By living an inquiry-led learning process, educators and teachers develop confidence and resilience as they work together through the uncertainty of staying present in the moment of theory construction and deconstruction.
Other possibilities include:
- supporting student diversity
- play
- collaborative learning (supporting children to work and learn together)
- integrating curriculum
- designing learning environments
- documenting and interpreting observations
- planning and programming
- interacting with children
- building relationships with families
- engaging the school/centre community
- working together as a team
SchemaPlay Workshops – new format
New format for SchemaPlay workshops – 2 Saturday mornings in August – to be held at Hillarys Community Kindy.
New SchemaPlay Workshop Series – Bronze Level Accreditation
Join Marie to explore schemes in the second SchemaPlay workshop series for 2025!
Schemes – Supporting children’s cognitive needs
If the child, as a little scientist, is driven to understand their world, what is our role as educators? How can we support children’s social, emotional, cognitive, creative; linguistic and physical development if they have a ‘need’ to know, understand and be able to do things, a need for safety, connection, mastery, fun and freedom…
What is an Orientation Scheme?
Schemes are repeated patterns of behaviour that help children make sense of their world. When children are exploring Orientation, they enjoy hanging upside down, climbing things, hanging from bars, looking through holes and transparent objects. They turn objects and themselves around and upside down. They may bend over and look at the world backwards through…
Questions and concerns – Making meaning together
As we continue to explore better ways for children to learning and teachers to teach, how can we think together, relaunch our thinking and search for meaning together?
SchemaPlay Workshop Series!
The first series of Bronze Level SchemaPlay workshops will be hosted by Treasured Tots Piara Waters! 9:30am to noon, 15 February, 22 February, 8 March, 15 March and 22 March. Call me to book your place! 0409 034 692
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