Hi Kate, I'm currently working through some of your videos on the channel to gain some insight into programming. I have just recently come back to the child care industry after a 22 year break where I was burned out due to toxic environments in the workplace. Since then, there have been introductions to the EYLF of which I am working on truly understanding. I had my staff appraisal last week and the bosses (owners of the company I work for) basically told me "they like me" and that I am now possibly being earmarked to take the place of a staff member who has tendered her resignation. Last time I spent just as many hours off the floor in my own time planning and programming as I was on the floor and this time I just really cannot do that (I have my own family etc). With a child led program, can you plan day by day - meaning you have a group of children with whom you have implemented activities and to expand and extend their learning you can lead off from that day's program, the following week on that day of the week? I'm just trying to look at ways to really minimise the time spent doing the actual programming. If this is a strategy, I would rather do it this way than having to do it for a whole weekend once a fortnight.
Thank you for a wonderful comment and a question?! I will come back with a detailed answer shortly showing some ways to save time on planning and do planning on the go. I guess the most important thing is to document everything, through the app or in your floor books; in your wall placed program, have some key focused outcomes , such as children sense of belonging ; social skills ; communication - as the bones that are stable through the year; as for children goals, get them from your jottings and obs , discussions with families. What you are talking about sounds like an emerging curriculum to me. It is a valuable model and it has its place in play-based curriculum .
Hi Kate,
I'm currently working through some of your videos on the channel to gain some insight into programming. I have just recently come back to the child care industry after a 22 year break where I was burned out due to toxic environments in the workplace. Since then, there have been introductions to the EYLF of which I am working on truly understanding. I had my staff appraisal last week and the bosses (owners of the company I work for) basically told me "they like me" and that I am now possibly being earmarked to take the place of a staff member who has tendered her resignation. Last time I spent just as many hours off the floor in my own time planning and programming as I was on the floor and this time I just really cannot do that (I have my own family etc). With a child led program, can you plan day by day - meaning you have a group of children with whom you have implemented activities and to expand and extend their learning you can lead off from that day's program, the following week on that day of the week? I'm just trying to look at ways to really minimise the time spent doing the actual programming. If this is a strategy, I would rather do it this way than having to do it for a whole weekend once a fortnight.
Thank you for a wonderful comment and a question?! I will come back with a detailed answer shortly showing some ways to save time on planning and do planning on the go. I guess the most important thing is to document everything, through the app or in your floor books; in your wall placed program, have some key focused outcomes , such as children sense of belonging ; social skills ; communication - as the bones that are stable through the year; as for children goals, get them from your jottings and obs , discussions with families. What you are talking about sounds like an emerging curriculum to me. It is a valuable model and it has its place in play-based curriculum .