1. 1. Describe the relationship between planning and documentation.
1.1. Documentation is essential for planning as the learning experiences/ activities that we will be planning are based on/ take into consideration children's interests, curiosities, strengths and weaknesses. Especially when adopting an emergent curriculum, data collected through observation is of vital importance in the development of our planner. Additionally, observations are essential to determine whether a child is achieving new developmental milestones and to evaluate whether a planned experience was successful or not.
1.2. Documentation can contribute to the extensiveness and depth of children's learning from their projects and other work. As Loris Malaguzzi points out, through documentation children "become even more curious, interested, and confident as they contemplate the meaning of what they have achieved" (Malaguzzi, 1993, p. 63). The documentation of the children's ideas, thoughts, feelings, and reports are also available to the children to record, preserve, and stimulate their memories of significant experiences, thereby further enhancing their learning related to the topics investigated. In addition, a display documenting the work of one child or of a group often encourages other children to become involved in a new topic and to adopt a representational
2. 2. Why are there different forms of documentation?.
2.1. * ANECTDOTAL * RUNNING RECORDS * LEARNING STORIES * CHECKLIST * EVENT SAMPLES * TIME SAMPLES * WORK SAMPLES * STORY DICTATION * PHOTOGRAPHS * PORTFOLIOS
3. 3. How might you document learning through an emergent curriculum? Consider the formats or types of documentation that would support this. Are there any that work against an emergent curriculum?
3.1. The most useful methods to document learning through an emergent curriculum would probably be: running records, learning stories, anecdotal, work samples, story dictation. Those are the types of observations that provide a broader view of the child in action and can be of great help in identify and analysing emerging interests in the child. AGAINST? I wouldn't say any of them work against the emergent curriculum
