Services & Training
The Cycle of Inquiry System
- Keynote: An introduction to the components of the Cycle of Inquiry System; a set of organizational tools for guiding teachers and teacher educators in the planning and implementation of emergent inquiry in early childhood classrooms
- Workshop: 1 or 2-day opportunities:
- Materials explorations are the focus of learning to implement emergent inquiry
- Use video from your classroom in your setting to learn to plan for emergent inquiry for your children
- Cohort Training: Those interested in working with us on in-depth long-term study
- 1 academic year training with online peer mediated support throughout the second year
- Trainees become pedagogical mentors for future cohorts
Workshops
Planning woven curriculum strategies
- Keynote: Learn to identify and integrate many threads of inquiry to current play into long-term investigations
Documentation Pedagogy
- The many facets of documentation: Written observation records, video records, documentation-in-progress, and documentation panels
- Learn the distinct differences and purposes of each within the context of planning and implementing emergent inquiry curriculum
- The parallel relationship of documentation to assessment
- Understanding the role of assessment as it is embedded within the process of planning for intentional inquiry curriculum
Meaningful Provocations
- Materials as provocation and documentation
- Environment as provocation and documentation
