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

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