Working with and creating texts in the early years: an inquiry approach

Unique Online Professional Learning Opportunity

Online workshop through Zoom

Working with and creating texts in the early years: an inquiry approach

Developing a deeper understanding of inquiry based learning 

9am - 2:30pm ACST

Saturday 11th September, 2021

Inquiry classrooms are places where teachers cultivate curiosity and nurture wonder. Inquiry educators help even our youngest learners to think critically, creatively and reflectively as they investigate and seek to understand the world. 

Texts (written, visual, oral) play a key role in that investigation process. As children inquire they both engage with texts (books, photos, objects, talk, music) AND create texts as ways to both meaning make and express their understanding. Texts can also be powerful ways to provoke and sustain a journey of inquiry. 

As children and educators move through the process there are so many, natural ways we can invite and create texts which helps both deepen conceptual understanding and strengthen literacy skills in a rich, authentic way.

In this interactive, online workshop, Kath will share a range of approaches to the authentic weaving of texts into journeys of inquiry. Drawing on over 30 years of experience of embedding inquiry practices into literacy rich classrooms, Kath will invite participants to share their own strategies and challenges which may include ways to design for such learning opportunities in a remote learning context. 

Kath will share examples and strategies, use some virtual collaborative strategies, provide resources and be available to respond to questions. The texts and techniques shared in this session will help you continue to build a culture that supports meaningful inquiry.

OUTLINE:

Session 1: 9:00am - 10:30am (with a 10 minute break)

Session 2: 11:00am - 12:30pm (with a 10 minute break)

Session 3: 1:30pm - 2:30pm

PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED TO:

• Download the (free) Zoom platform
• Be prepared to have their video function on (so everyone can be seen)
• Sign a declaration that nothing will be recorded and no screenshots taken
• Use a laptop or desktop - not a phone
• Be in their own space (not sharing a device with a colleague)
• Manage their own technology
• Be able to access a Google doc that will accompany the workshop to be used to collect and record ideas
• Commit for the day - not just a session

Participants will receive a link and a password prior to the workshop.

Participants will also receive resources as you would in a face-to-face workshop.

Please contact EChO on echosouthaustralia@gmail.com with any questions