The Inspired EC Blog
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AI For Documentation: concerns, questions and confusion
When it comes to documenting children's learning - is AI moving our profession forward, or creating new risks? -
4 Steps to Embracing Risky Play
Embracing risky play can be challenging for many of us. We might logically understand the importance of children having opportunities to engage in risky play, and yet we might still be apprehensive - concerned about safety, worried about incidents. -
How can we involve children in our QIP Process?
Our QIPs should be living, breathing, meaningful documents. This means that they aren't always pretty - but they are a collection of voices and insights and ideas and reflections that document our goals and direction and achievements and growth. Of course children should be a part of that! -
How to respond to an "irate" parent.
There was fire in her eyes and I swear smoke was coming out of her ears. She threw the child's wet clothes on my desk and demanded to know why they had been playing in the mud before pickup. Was I caught off guard? Yep. Did I have that sick, uneasy feeling in my stomach? Yep -
It's raining, it's pouring... but we're going outside anyway!
"I hate rainy days when we get stuck inside and the children go wild."
I have lost count of the number of times over my two decades in early childhood, that I have heard some version of this sentiment. For the first couple of years, I said it myself - many times.
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10 Essential Elements for Toddler Environments - Indoor Edition
Okay, it's been a little while since we started this series of blog posts... but we are back! And this time, it's indoor environments for toddlers. -
4 Ways to stay true to your philosophy during the festive season
What bothers me though is that in our attempts to fully embrace the festive spirit, some services and educators appear to lose sight of their philosophies and subsequently, children’s rights -
How do you know if early childhood education is the right place for you?
We all have bad days. We all have days where the idea of getting up and going to work is enough to put us in a bad mood. But these days should be the exception to the rule. -
Who is the performance for?
Every year, in around October, the requests for suggestions start: "what songs can we perform at our end of year graduation/concert?" or something along those lines. And every year I wonder - who is the performance for? -
10 Essential Elements for Infant Environments - Indoor Edition
We are often asked for our resource recommendations for various ages. So, we've decided to produce a series of blog posts doing exactly that. And we are kicking it off with infants. -
The Art of Really Seeing
Together we really looked at the flower. We spent time examining the incredible symmetry, the fuzziness of the centre.
And then she began pulling the petals out... really slowly. As she did, we noticed how they slid out of the flower.
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Is it ethical or sustainable to use food in play, and where do we draw the line?
If, like me, you are a child of the 80's, there's a very strong chance that you engaged in the fine art of potato printing and pasta necklace creation during your preschool years. Upon asking the question, though, of whether it is ethical or sustainable to use food in play, it seems that the answer isn't exactly black or white.
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