So What Are Planning Stories?
Planning stories are a new way of documenting planning - a planning story is a story about all the learning stories.
This is a relatively new approach for us at Bethlehem College Kindergarten.
A Planning story is written retrospectively (all together, looking back) capturing:
- Rapid planning that happens throughout the day as teachers respond intuitively to children's thinking and ideas (often the unexpected).
- Forward planning as teachers respond collaboratively to what they notice (the planned).
- Documentation that is indicative of the planning that happens in the setting (ie a story of many).
Planning Stories:
- Tell the story of how the focus came about - start at the beginning.
- Involve the learning stories and photos that tell a story - there may be a combination of teacher's, children's and parent's stories.
- Reflect on the provocation and thinking that may have taken place.
- Involve teacher's evaluations and reflections, parent's comment, children's comments, teacher's comments of pedagogy, links to Te Whaariki and links to theory and research.
Below are sample pages of recent planning stories.
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