Documentation: Making Children's Learning Visible
Course: #32214Level: IntermediateSubject Area: Observing and recording children's behavior 1 Hour 385 Reviews
Learn how early childhood educators can use the documentation process as a means to understand and make children’s learning visible. The course focuses on the elements of the documentation process for individual children and for a whole group.
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Course Type: Video, Text
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to identify and explain the multiple purposes of documentation.
- After this course, participants will be able to summarize ways to use documentation in the classroom for both individual children and for a group of children.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe tools and ways to create documentation that makes children's learning visible.
Course created on November 30, 2021
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction and Overview |
| 5-15 Minutes | What is Documentation? |
| 15-25 Minutes | Why Should I Document? |
| 25-30 Minutes | What Should I Document? |
| 30-35 Minutes | How Should I Document Children’s Learning? |
| 35-40 Minutes | What Tools Do You Need to Document Learning? |
| 40-45 Minutes | How Should I Make Documentation Effective? |
| 45-50 Minutes | What Are the Stages of a Documentor? |
| 50-55 Minutes | Let’s Make Learning Visible! |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary |
Reviews
385 ReviewsPresented By
Hilary Seitz
PhD
Dr. Hilary Seitz is a passionate early childhood educator, an advocate for young children and their families, and an Alaskan. She has been a professor of early childhood at the University of Alaska, Anchorage since January of 2003. She came with 17 years of early childhood teaching experience from infant/toddler/preschool classrooms, public Pre-K, and primary grades. Her research foci have been in early literacy development, collaborative practices between families and schools including culturally responsive pedagogies, emergent curriculum development, documentation and authentic assessment, and social constructivist learning theories inspired by Reggio Emilia practices. She is currently working on projects related to the superpower of creativity and how to integrate culturally relevant early literacy practices into the classroom. In her free time, she loves to read (novels), hike around Alaska, crochet, play cribbage, walk her dogs and spend time with her family at her cabin.
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