\/ \/ If you would like to LISTEN to the podcast please flick to the bottom \/ \/ I am putting this up straight after the long weekend so I hope you enjoyed the little snippet of time extra yesterday. We had a great trip on a steam train and I live streamed about how … Continue reading #37 Shine as an educator – What else is MISSING?

So I am writing our new training for the “Early years programming mastermind” and it occurred I was heading down the road thats a little controversial but still very true and relevant to us as Early childhood educators. Now I am asking myself is it really controversial? Is something really controversial if it is true? … Continue reading #36 Shine as an educator – Controversial Programming!

I had a very different topic for this week but it will have to wait until next week, although it is so very important I had to share my exciting new with you. The very talented and very knowledgable Jodie from Mummy Mussings and Mayhem has been publishing a wonderful series on Exploring Home based … Continue reading #35 Shine as an educator – Special for someone!

I have been sharing my Shine as an educator podcast for 34 episodes… I didn’t know this week whether to be terribly disheartened or super excited after coming across an interesting and very active debate on one of the early childhood educator forums. Now it became quite overwhelming and I needed to take a deep … Continue reading #34 Shine as an educator – Critical Reflection…

This week I wanted to share a thought I had after a fantastic visit from my cdo… We are delving into our qip, visiting our documenting and brainstorming ways to involve families within our service more. We spent over an hour watching the children, following them around, but brainstorming, planning small subtle improvement I could … Continue reading #33 Shine as an educator – Parent Input!

Today we have a Critical Reflection Question Challenge Today & Top Tip… We’re talking about the planning cycle and as early childhood educators we can get a little fixated on the cycle and following up – Yep here comes the Myth that’s needed to be busted… We know that the planning cycle is important. We … Continue reading #32 Shine as an educator – Bust this Myth!!

Over the past few weeks we have been delving into your environment… we have spoken about less is more, leaving what’s working and swapping out what’s not, focusing on what the children are really interested in to extend the children’’s learning and a definite focus on not overwhelming our precious children. I have had questions … Continue reading #31 Shine as an educator – Do you focus on learning?

Last episode I gave you a challenge to scale back what you were offering and make sure that what you are offering is worthwhile experiences. Today I wanted to follow on from where we left off. I think it’s important that I share with you my set up this week and how I went about … Continue reading #30 Shine as an educator – What’s working and what’s not??

Ahhhhh Resources!! Oh I absolutely loved this discussion today, so much so I want to share it with you. It highlights the difference of opinions we as early childhood educators can have when it comes to play environments and what is manageable in our own homes but also positive, stimulating and worthwhile for the children … Continue reading #29 Shine as an educator – Ahhhhh Resources!!

Last week I asked How is your early childhood service unique… and this week I have been involved with several awesome discussions extending from this question. This week I want to go a little deeper, not just sharing from my own insight but sharing what other educators have been saying is their unique, special feature … Continue reading #28 Shine as an educator – 10 Unique features