reading+club

This page is just like a book club. Share a reading. Leave your comments. Others read and leave their comments. Professional readings that is!

Hi, please find the time to read the latest research of data collected by Barbara Brann - Building Blocks to Literacy/Casey Caterpillar from schools in New Zealand. Cheers Gayle

Another great read is the following. It written for teaching an EY multi age class but has some wonderful ideas on play based and engaging learning environments, as well as ideas for open ended rich integrated tasks. Cheers Sue [I bought my copy through Amazon Bookshop online] __A Room With a Different View__ by Jill Ostrow

Here is a very interesting read from AJEC journal Vol. 34 No. 4 December 2009. A friend in Gove who is a Secondary teacher studying her Masters in EC gave me a hardcopy of this reading after some great dialogue over the EYLF and our understandings of it. She gave me some really good points to challenge us all with our thinking around it and how to unpack it. This reading gives a great insight into the inside perspectives of the development of the EYLF. It can really challenge our thinking. Also, my friend suggested from her research that it is wise to read the EYLF Educators guide first, as it challenges us to reflect on ourselves first and then read the EYLF Belonging, Being & Becoming second. A better insight apparently. I would be interested to hear from others after you have read this/these for your take on this. Cheers Gayle Chamberlain, Nhulunbuy Primary School.

HI All If you were lucky enough to go to the Early Years/ Leaders Conference in Darwin during standdown, Kathy Walker had an inspirational session/s where she was very articulate about what play should be in preschool and transition years. She provided evidence based reseach that said play without adult support is a waste of time, highly structured environments produced students that had a high drop out rate around year 8. We need to aim for the middle where teacher guides the learning with rich experimental activites. She passed on a really interesting reading that I will share here. Hope you find it interesting. I think we may use this as a pre reading for our next workshop. Cheers Debbie



Hi Ladies A very quick reading from the ECA PLP website about //**'Play' **. // I've highlighted the bits I found most relevant, but also attached a plain copy if you'd like it for your records. Even though the scenarios are child care/preschool I found while reading them I was having flashbacks to my own classroom experiences. So...it got me thinking,

//**How about we share our own situations/scenarios that we're experiencing in our __Transition__ classrooms! **// No right or wrong, no good or bad....just our thinking.



The other e-newsletters they refer to are available on the ECA website. [] If you're not already signed up for them, it's worth a thought :)

HI All All Preschools were fiven a set of books from ECPR to help teachers on their EYLF journey - sorry CTPoL doesn't have the money to do this!!! But if you talk nicely to your preschool teacher they may share the books with you. One of them was //Developmentally Approriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs// - C. Copple and S. Bredekamp. Erica found the CD in the back of the book to be full of wonderful articles. One article outlines what children are like at ages 3, 4 and 5 years old and how adults can help.

It would be great to have your view on whether this would hit the mark for the Transition Teachers Toolkit. From the last workshop people wanted something around developmental stages of children. please email your thoughtsd or respond here. Cheers Debbie