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From this year we began using this classroom as a dedicated Play Session environment and removed all the desks and chairs. Each Friday morning children from local centres either walk with their educators or catch a bus with their educators to attend a play session which is facilitated by the Full Time face to face students.
On the days prior to the Play Session the students are responsible for planning the program of provocations that they will provide for the children who are attending, based on the children's interests and observations that they have made on the children in the previous weeks.
This does not show the classroom 'set up' - but ready to be set up later in the week. Although not a purpose built environment - the teachers and students are able to make it a warm and welcoming environment.
Thanks for reading my posts - looking forward to reading and commenting on yours. Please feel free to ask me any questions .....
Now....... how do I navigate my way out of this....... and find my way back in again :)
Cheers all- Liz Ingram Tamworth TAFE NSW AUSTRALIA
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Hallo! It was very interesting to hear that you bring the children to the school. In that way the students really get a lot of practise to lead activities with children. We usually do the opposite. Students on children and Recreation program has work experience at a nursery school and get there to practice to implement activities with preschoolers.
ReplyDeleteI think we can learn a lot from you!
Our students also go on a 2 week prac to a local service near the end of their study .
ReplyDeleteHow long are the studies?
ReplyDelete18 weeks full time
DeleteI mean- how many year´s does it take to become an childkeeper i your country?
ReplyDeleteThe minimum requirement is a 6 month full time or 12 month part time course at a VET institution to be an assistant - but to be a room leader is either 2 years full time or 4 years full time at a university to be a TEACHER .
ReplyDeleteWe have two ways to study: childkeeper= 3 years in highschool or 3 years after highscool. Then you become a preschool teacher.
ReplyDeleteDo they get some kind of vocational diploma after 6/12 months?
ReplyDeleteDo they have some design studies before they come to you?
They get a certificate III which is the minimum qualification to work with children.
DeleteThey can then go on to a further 18 months of full time study to gain their Diploma and then they can go to university to train to be a qualified teacher.
The CERT III is the entry level legal requirement .
all people who work with children under 5 in Australia MUST have a cert III qualification by 2014 .
I also like this idee that the children comes to you! Was it hard in the biginning to get the Pre schools to come? How do you invite them? Do you plan wich group and what sort of activity the students should keep?
ReplyDeleteWe have only just started this year with the children coming to us. We just rang the directors up and invited them.
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