Early childhood planning and assessment are those necessary tasks we reluctantly tackle. Yet, they are crucial for children’s learning and emotional, cognitive and social development.
Our planning and assessment blogs are written by respected educators and authors including Bridie Raban and Anne Houghton. The aim is to give educators high-quality guidance and practical strategies to use within their early childhood education (ECE) setting. Get fresh ideas for planning and assessment in ECE, which are research-based, relevant, and with any hope, enjoyable!
Discover why implementing change in your ECE doesn’t always lead to transformational practice or planned results. Leanne Gibbs and Mandy Cooke are here to help your team make room for the quality improvement you are trying to achieve.
Dr Claire Warden lifts the cover on her latest innovation. Leadership Floorbooks is a must-have resource for progressive educational leaders, making your pathway to improvement visible, understood and valued by every educator in your ECE.
Effective supervision isn’t about hovering over children – it’s about allowing risk in a safe space. Inspired EC’s Nicole Halton explores how an objective approach empowers children while ensuring service compliance.
Explore how reflective practice in ECE can enhance teaching strategies, critical reflection and help you to achieve outcomes aligned with the EYLF.
Intentional teaching for early childhood education is deliberate and dynamic. When intentional teaching practices are adopted though, they create meaningful learning experiences that extend children’s thinking and development.
Author Anne Houghton discusses how narrative approaches, such as Learning Stories, create meaningful documentation for the child, their families and educators. Meaningful enough to keep under the pillow.
Author Bridie Raban discusses how assessment as learning can help to identify where children are in their learning, development and wellbeing and how they can move forward.
We’ve just released The Essential Planner 2023, one of the most loved teaching planners for junior to senior primary school teachers. It is the perfect teacher planner to organise your teaching year.
Experienced educator and recognised author, Anne Houghton, sets intentional teaching in its big-picture context to show its potential as an effective pedagogical practice.
Creating environments that spark curiosity and wonder is not difficult and yet, at times, infant environments in early childhood settings can be sterile or uninspiring. Here I explore the notion of creating environments that spark curiosity in infants.
How can we increase the STEM skills of our young children if we have difficulty recognising STEM learning opportunities and feel unsure about scaffolding STEM concepts?
Discover how to use Floorbooks® – where thoughts, ideas and open-ended questions are recorded by children and their educators.
Dr Claire Warden shares the reason she started planning with and for children through Floorbooks® years ago. She provides a taste of what they are today by answering questions.