Tag: Educator Professional Learning
Walking alongside a teacher’s career
Sharon Carlson has worked as a Kindergarten teacher, Head teacher and consultant. In this blog post, she talks about reporting and assessment in teaching and the launch of Storypark’s new teacher portfolios. As teachers, we have to show evidence of our own learning and progression as well as that of the children we work with. In Australia, many centres are...
Musings on teachers’ professional learning and Storypark
The following post has been written by Joce Nuttall, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University and advisor to Storypark. It offers some provocative questions, astute observations and interesting ideas for educators. I have a passionate interest in the learning and development of early childhood teachers. I know that Storypark was initially motivated by wanting to share stories...
Early childhood education through distance learning – so how does that work then?
The Early Childhood service of Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu, New Zealand’s correspondence school, was looking for a bridge between new technology and what they knew all children needed to learn, through hands-on, full sensory experiences. Storypark fitted the bill perfectly. Being an educator and a parent I was intrigued as to how Te Kura managed distance, and connected...