Responsive planning and decision-making is an ongoing, interconnected and reciprocal process. It is based on teachers’ understandings about, and conversations with, children, educators, parents/carers, family and community members, and professional partners.
Teacher-initiated planning involves short, medium and long-term decisions that build on children’s knowledge, perspectives, capabilities and interests. Planning is flexible and responds to child-initiated, spontaneous opportunities to explore new learning with children.
Teachers and educators:
- focus on learning priorities, learning environments and contexts for individuals, small groups and the whole group
- provide children with opportunities to exercise agency and play an active role in their own learning by:
- contributing to shared thinking, planning and organising for learning
- negotiating ways to follow their interests and ideas
- participating in collaborative decision-making and reflection about routines or changes that may affect them
- engaging in conversations to reflect on what they have learnt and consider their next steps for learning
- document children’s participation in the kindergarten program and their ongoing learning progress
- use documentation to support collaborative reflection and decision-making about learning with children, parents/carers and family members.
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- Last updated:
- 31 July 2024
