The world of Early Childhood Education

Who is Jan Blake? She is an inspiring storyteller and performer. Born in Manchester, she is specialized in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia. The most stories I have seen of here are with a live lessons. She includes here audience, she sings, makes rhythms, there is repetition what makes that you can follow the stories and remember them better to retell.  Story telling in schools  Learning trough stories, Jan Blake can help you with that. She leads projects in school to assist. Read on her blog more about the Project "bedtime stories" . You can learn children many thing trough story telling it is a real asset for their learning process. It is good to learn new vocabulary through repetition and participation. Story telling also helps you as a teacher to achieve different contexts. 

Green school Bali  I have had an inspiring session of a woman called Beth, primary teacher from Barcelona and she shared her amazing experiences full of passion about Green School. She visited green school when she was in Bali for holidays. She liked it so much, she went for a second visit. There are more than one types of visits available to the school. Because of her enthusiasm I just want to see it with my own eyes.  Green School Bali opened in September 2008. It is literally a school in a three in the middle of the wilderness. No cars are seen, it seems like they access the school by food or bikes.  There are 4 school like this in the world Bali New Zealand South Africa Tulum Visit Green school   There are different types of visit possible  Guide tours   Admission interview and tour  Group tours  Private tours  TED talk John Hardy: My green school dream  This man made a school to...

Chimamada Ngozi Adichie She is women from Nigeria where she grew up. Later she moved to the United states.  She is the author of "Purple Hibiscus", "Half of a Yellow Sun", "The Thing Around Your Neck", "Americanah", and "We Should All Be Feminists". Her work has been translates in many languages.  The danger of a single story She is an inspiring women who lets you understand how important stories are, but different stories. They come in different forms films, books, music theater, ... The danger of a "single story" is that you hear over and over again the same story in a different way. In time these single stories will be seen as reality but they are only stereotypes, where there is a truth but where many information is missing.  Like she says in her Ted talk "A student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian man where physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him I just read a novel ...

Who is Tamara Chubarovsky and what is great about her story telling?  Tamara Chubarovsky offers didactic and therapeutic resources. It supports children's learning process in language, based on respect, creativity and play. Stories with rhymes and movement. Resources that allow you to improve your voice and communication skills. One video example in Spanish and two in English watch more video's on her you-tube channel . My own experience  When I was doing my trainee in "Collegio San Juan Bosco". My teacher Lollie showed me Tamara's work and I loved it. It was amazing to see see how the children were listening and repeating what she was doing. This story telling even helps them with their fine motor skills.

One of the key points is the well being of children. When they do not feel emotional well, they will not gain a high level of development. It doesn't mean that children can not feel hurt, sad, angry, .. the key point is to talk about these feelings. A lot of children can not even name what they are feeling that's why it is important to support them so they learn to express themselves. What is SEL?  Social emotional learning (SEL)   "Is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions." SEL Competencies Social awareness  Self awareness relationship skills  Self management  responsible decision making  How to support SEL education It is important to focus on the strengths and talents of your children. Make sure with misbehavior that there are fair conseq...

Why do we need 21st Century skills? Everything is changing children need more individual support every day we get more cultures in our school what is great, it makes our classrooms richer. Because of that we notice that we need skills as being more creative, problem-solving, critical thinking, flexible but that's not only in education, it is necessary in different jobs, situations. I noticed that we need these skills’ more than ever when I was a trainee in BSB. Children from everywhere in the world come to this school. What means their background is diverse e.g. Here the children come to school from a younger age than in other countries what makes that some children haven’t been in school before so they are on different level or they are not speaking the language yet. So you need to be creative to help and make the children feel comfortable. You will continuous need problem solving thinking. Every year will be different you cannot expect what you did last year with the...