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Engaging Teachers in Planning
July 13, 2012
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.
-Roger von Oech
-Roger von Oech
"As early childhood practitioners, we understand the importance of children’s choice or self-initiated activity.... When children initiate exploration, they express more interest and increased motivation to learn through their experiences.
"Similarly, research on staff development suggests that teachers are more actively involved and committed to learning when they are engaged in the planning process. Research also suggests that aligning the program’s training objectives to learners’ needs or challenges, interests, and levels of expertise and/or knowledge is an effective strategy for developing staff training programs. Being actively involved in the planning process means that teachers are given opportunities to decide what they want to know, why it is important to them, and where and how they will acquire the knowledge."
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Staff needs to be part of some of the every day decision making as well.
The ideal is to have the entire staff (or at least a core voluntary group) come together to establish through discussion, reading, and debate, the core set of beliefs of the center. Then it needs to be documented and shared with parents. Of course it would evolve and change over time with more learning and experience.I think it is the key that is missing in so many centers and that's why they continually struggle with staff and parent issues. It's tough to go forward without knowing "who you are."
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