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This webinar will be delivered by Debi Keyte-Hartland.

This two-part course will consider three questions:

How can you develop an enabling and engaging environment in which you to build learning around children’s working theories?

Birth to 5 Matters considers how working theories are the ways in which children think about, enquire into and make meaning about their worlds as they attempt to make connections between prior and new experiences and understandings. But what are the practical ways of supporting our children to develop understanding in this way? And what does making connections look like when we are observing and interacting? To be able to support and develop children’s working theories both inside and outside, what is it that we need to be able notice and observe, to be able to assess and to plan for its development?

How can you support your children to think in creative and critical ways?

We know that creativity and the ability to think critically are important life skills for our children growing up in a uncertain and challenging future. So how do we practically support our youngest children to demonstrate their creativity and critical thinking and skills? What should we be looking for, what creative qualities and characteristics are involved in creativity and critical thinking? Knowing this enables you to be able and more effectively plan and amplify the possibilities for it to develop and grow in your children. In knowing exactly what to observe and how to interact we can better ensure that our curriculum planning promotes the development of these important characteristics of both learning and teaching.

How can you support your children’s creativity and critical thinking across the areas of learning?

When learning and development in the early years is neither developed or planned for as separate or disconnected areas, subjects or disciplines, how then, can we understand and work with children working theories, through the development of their creative and critical thinking across all areas of learning. In your learning of how your children learn in playful, exciting and engaging ways that are meaningful and rich in agency of and for the children, then we can see and be more and thus develop more strongly our articulation of your knowledge of the children, how you know the understanding of your children and what you will do next to support the growth and development of your children’s thinking and being in the world in creative ways that are underpinned with critical awareness and evaluation, where we also value others perspectives, other ways of doing things, and other ways of relating to the world that recognises diversity and inclusion as they build stronger, richer and more sustainable relations to the world, its people, and resources.

The webinar will take place on the following dates and times:

Session 1: 10th November, 4pm-5.30pm

Session 2: 17th November, 4pm-5.30pm

Please note: this course has been rescheduled from May 2022.

Webinar - Thinking creatively and critically: supporting working theories

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