Engaging Early Childhood Educators in Reflective Dialouge During Online Learning
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This document discusses engaging early childhood educators in reflective dialogue during online learning. It provides resources for educators, including tip sheets, videos, and guides on topics like early intervention. The document emphasizes using structured reflection processes and meaningful feedback to promote observation, interpretation of child behaviors, and consideration of teaching practices. Educators are encouraged to problem solve, empathize, amplify positive thoughts and soften negative ones, and reframe challenges when providing feedback to students. The resources aim to support teachers and families of young children.
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- 1. Rebecca Swartz, Early Learning Specialist Early Care and Parenting Collaborative Engaging Early Childhood Educators in Reflective Dialogue During Online Learning
- 2. Who is learning with us today? What brought you to the session? What are you hoping to learn?
- 6. Use high-quality prompts Structure the reflective process Provide meaningful feedback
- 8. IEL Project • Funded by the Illinois State Board of Education • Support teachers and families of young children • Focus on Illinois, but have an international audience
- 10. Where do you begin? Resources Search Box Target Audience Popular Resources
- 13. Videos • Benchmark • Parenting • Guidelines http://illinoisearlylearning.org/videos/tower.htm
- 15. Early Intervention Resources •Resources from the Early Intervention Clearinghouse •Lending Library •EI Notes •Resource Guides
- 17. E.I. Notes – tip sheets written for parents Available in English & Spanish eiclearinghouse.org
- 18. Resource Guides • Topic-based guides to EI Clearinghouse library and the Web • Books, DVDs, articles, & Web resources • Guide to Spanish- Language materials eiclearinghouse.org
- 19. • Emphasize the process of observation • Explore biases that interfere with observation • Provide structured formats for responses • Share examples that demonstrate how to meet expectations
- 20. • Observation: “Zoom in” on one child. Tell a “story” in detail. • Interpretation: Make sense of the story…Provide an explanation of what you think the child’s behavior, communication, and actions mean. Make a connection to the IELGs. • • Reflection on Teaching Practices: What might you do as a teacher to continue to support this particular child in this developmental area? Zoom out… What have you seen in the classroom that promotes or hinders the child’s development or learning?
- 21. Problem Solve Empathize Amplify/Soften Reframe Consider what feedback would be most meaningful to student in a particular situation.
- 24. Problem Solve: Help develop concrete ways to address the situation Empathize: Show understanding of the situation and emotions around it Amplify/Soften:reinforce positive thoughts and acknowledge, validate, but redirect negative thoughts to positive messages Reframe: take a challenging situation and find a new way of looking at it
- 25. 1. Read the student work 2. Respond and Promote Reflection- Share a PEAR. Which type of feedback would be most meaningful? 3. Write ideas for sample feedback 4. We will come back together and share our thoughts.
- 26. Ideas? Plans? Questions? Wonderings? What do you need to read and learn more about?
- 27. Please explore and share our resources! • Eiclearinghouse.org • Illinoisearlylearning.org • Read our e-newsletters! • Follow us on • Contact Rebecca at rswartz@illinois.edu