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PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
A TIME FOR THINKING: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON PRACTICE
Presented by Jan Faulkner – KU Children’s Services
Friday 20 April
9:30am – 1:00pm
KU Training Room,
129 York Street,
Sydney
$150
NQS Area 1
There is a strong emphasis on critical reflection in the National Quality Standard and Early
Years Learning Framework. This is because the process of critical reflection helps us to think
more deeply about our work and to question how our practices impact the learning and
development of children. During this workshop we will explore:
The way in which critical reflection drives educator decision making and is essential to
our practice
Strategies for engaging in processes of critical reflection that help us to have the
courage and confidence to question our own practices
Ways to integrate critical reflection into daily practice
This workshop is suitable for early childhood professionals with some experience.
Completing A Time for Thinking: Critical Reflection on Practice will contribute 3 hours of
NESA registered PD addressing 3.6.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
PLAY, FANTASY AND LEARNING
Presented by Jan Faulkner and Keran Elgie – KU Children’s Services
As a full day
workshop:
Wednesday 23 May
Newcastle
Tuesday 10 July
KU Training Room,
129 York Street,
Sydney
9:30am – 3:30pm
As a two part series:
Wednesday 16 May
(Part 1)
Wednesday 30 May
(Part 2)
4:30pm – 7:30pm
KU Training Room,
129 York Street,
Sydney
We saw that the children’s concentration was intense when they played and we filled the
other times with playful rhyming games, songs, and poetry, to which we added picture
books and fairy tales. The children’s own chants and shouts rang out as they ran, climbed,
jumped, pushed, pulled and rearranged their environment, all in the name of fantasy
play. Restlessness, impulsivity and timidness faded in the quest for a dramatic role, and
daydreams awakened into social play and big arcs of paint. (Vivien Gussin Paley, 2004)
Learning through play is an underpinning practice within the Early Years Learning Framework.
Play allows children to belong and be and gives them agency to explore, make decisions
and form relationships. This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on and re-discover the
importance of play in children’s lives. Drawing on contemporary thinking about play in early
childhood we will explore:
Children’s learning and development during play
Contemporary thinking about superhero play and fantasy play
The educator’s role in play
Environments to support play
Strategies for talking with families about play and learning
This workshop is suitable for all early childhood professionals.
$190
NQS Area
1 and 3
Completing Play Fantasy and Learning will contribute 5 hours of NESA registered PD
addressing 1.1.2 and 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards
maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
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