My Doctoral Action Research

In many preschool-grade 12 international schools, it is common for in-house professional learning opportunities to be geared toward k-12 educators, leaving early childhood educators to have to look outside their school for learning opportunities.

For this reason, my research aims to discover if providing online Zoom calls with early childhood experts and having an accompanying website will be an effective method of professional learning.

Three Learning Opportunities

The Role of the Educator

Breakout Session 1 Handout

Breakout Session 2 Handout

Child-led Inquiries

Inquiry Learning ~ Queensland Government

Inquiry-based Learning ~ Early Childhood Australia

Schemas

Schemas- Learning Through Play ~ Education Scotland

Loose Parts and Intelligent Playthings: Categorized By Schema

Michelle Thornhill

The Learning Environment

Conversation Starters for Your Teaching Team

The Environment as the Third Teacher

Environment as the Third Teacher ~ My Teaching Cupboard

Continuous Professional Learning for Early Childhood Educators: Creating Environments as a “Third Teacher”

~ Dr. Diane Kashin

Risky Play

Supporting Young Children’s Risky Play ~ Boston University

Why ‘Risky Play’ is Important for Children ~ dbdplay

Promising Practices in Early Childhood

Conversation Starters for Your Teaching Team

Documentation of Learning

A Powerful Way to Document Student Learning in the

Early Grades ~ Edutopia

Documenting children’s learning - slow down!

Working with Multilingual Learners

Multilingual Preschoolers ~ Harvard

Teaching Early Childhood Multilingual Learners ~ Lifting Language Podcast

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