Documenting Children's Learning

Documenting how children are learning is an important activity for early childhood professionals to engage in on a regular basis. In e-clip #10, Judy Harris Helm of Best Practices, Inc. discusses why documentation is so critical and identifies some of the different purposes of documentation. Two preschool teachers and one toddler teacher describe the various ways they document as well as how they use documentation to help achieve different goals. When adults engage in a variety of documentation practices, it can help them to assess learning, reflect on and adjust their teaching practices, support children to revisit their own learning, communicate with families, and advocate for their program.
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Video Segments:
0:40 Documenting Children's Learning
1:14 Assessing Children's Learning
2:57 Revisiting Children's learning
4:25 Communicating with Families
5:23 Ensuring Informed and Reflective Teaching
7:45 Advocating for Developmentally Appropriate, Play Based Learning
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