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Learning in the First 1000 Days

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 Learning in the First 1000 Days. Here are some of my favourite interactive media for infants and toddlers: Teddy Bears Picnic (Kennedy et al., 1992) –   This book facilitates shared attention by kids being able to pick out their favourite teddy bears. Adults can ask children“which teddy are you?” and kids can have fun choosing how to express themselves and eventually say “I’m that one!” I always picked the teddy with the pink ribbon. Adults may also ask creative make-believe questions like “What do you think the teddy bears names are?” Barney: I Love You song (Bernstein, 1982) – This song provides an opportunity to equate love and connection with singing. For example “we’re a happy family” lyircs. Adults can use actions to point at each other while singing “I love you, you love me” combined with wholesome affection “with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you”. This song then shows kids that it’s okay to ask for affection from parents and loved ones “wont you say you lov...
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Western Views of Learning

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 Western Views of Learning:  Interview with Desiree  left to right: 1 2 3 4   5 6 7 8 For this provocation, I chatted with my friend Desiree who works full-time teaching English as a second language to adults. I mainly asked her a couple of questions over messenger that I was really interested in. The first question I had in mind was what were her top 3 pieces of advice for a future teacher. I asked this because I want to home-school my future children and would love her advice. I also asked what practices she thought worked the best for her class so I could get some examples to go along with her advice.   In response to my first concern, Desiree emphasized the importance of maintaining a close relationship with her students so she could understand them as individuals and how their method of learning may be different to others and students might need help identifying how to learn best for them. She also talked about how we need to have high expectations for ...
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Pasifika Views of Learning

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 Pasifika Views of Learning Collage by Ximena Parsons The theme of my collage was how the pacific value of family creates a protection against harmful influences and reaches out to individuals inspiring them to push further in their goal of education. The collage is made of hundreds of hibiscus and frangipani flowers that I individually placed to form the image of a loving family. The image of the family is supposed to represent the values common to Pasifika learning, as noted in the Pasifika Education Plan (Ministry of Education, 2013). These values include, family, love, respect, belonging, inclusion and other social values associated with happiness. Hence the way the parents are tenderly embracing each other and the next generation. Also note how the border surrounding the family is the repeating symbol of the starfish or the Samoan Fa’a Aveao. This is the symbol of protection (Janet's Samoa, 2020) and represents how the family values within the border can protect the individual...
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