Playwork Reflection Diary by https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q en-us 2023-08-22 10:28:38 UTC 2023-08-22 12:45:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction to place thought and Aboriginal country as well as welcome/acknowledgement to country. kyeishajanecollistershaw1 https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668661051
during this session we learnt that an acknowledgment of country is acknowledging the traditional owners of the land we are on and a way to show our respect for our elder’s past, present and future. Whereas a welcome to country is performed by a local aboriginal person of significance (usually an elder) a traditional owner to acknowledge and consent to the events taking place on their traditional lands.

During this session we read an article called ‘Australian rivers as ancestral beings, it covered how rivers are being recognized as legal and living beings the concept of a river as a living entity in its own right made its first appearance in Victoria in 2017. (pelizzon, O’donnell & Poelina 2021)
]]> 2023-08-22 11:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668661051 Introduction to Play work kyeishajanecollistershaw1 https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668662810 Play work principles is the ethical and professional framework that underpins play work. It is based on the recognition that children and young people’s capacity for positive development will be enhanced if given access to the broadest range of environments 

What are loose parts? Loose parts are recycled materials often free or really cheap the types of loose parts we can collect, and gather are only limited by our imagination. Loose parts can be sorted into natural, recycled, or large loose parts.

Benefits of loose parts are they have no pre prescribed outcomes there are no expectation of what children will do with them, loose parts can be moved or manipulated, they enable children to explore and have you imagination become enabled and finally loose parts can be interpreted in their own way and do whatever a child wants them to do 

A play work space differs from ECE as it has no expectations of certain outcomes to be achieved, set activities are not provided but rather opportunities for children to create their own spaces are 
When you are a play worker you use a field diary this is used when in the field, or as we call it, onsite with children. When you go onsite and you record all your observations, thoughts, and questions in it.
]]> 2023-08-22 11:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668662810 What makes a good teacher? anti Bias and Disrupting deficit thinking kyeishajanecollistershaw1 https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668706583 What do you think makes a good teacher: I think a good teacher is someone that supports and encourages you to be the best you can be and do the best you can do.
How do you see yourself as a teacher and how do you want others to see you?: as a teacher i am hoping i act as a kind, caring and encouraging teacher and i hope that families see me as a role model for their child and i hope a child see's me as a support system they can always come to when they need someone.
During this session we learnt about what it means to be present as a teacher "Through 'being present' teachers can understand children on a personal level. We can take note of a child's likes and dislikes, interests and strengths, and understand their personal life out of school"
in one the articles we read it stated "In Australia, the early childhood teacher must pay attention to the country's colonial past, present and future (Hamm, 20151. For example, the 'classroom ready' teacher will purposefully engage with a postcolonial perspective by working with pre-schoolers in thinking about and making meaning from Australia's painful history of removing Aboriginal children from their families. Classroom ready teachers are present when they look beyond the discourses that position young children as being too 'innocent· to understand or unable to engage with such issues." to me i feel like this perhaps relates slightly more to primary aged kids rather then 5 and under


In this session we also covered anti bias, we read an article about Maori students going to study and how they find it studying with non Maori teachers, the students felt like the teachers practically degraded them thinking they weren't up to the same standards as other non Maori students or they were judged to quickly.
Bishop, R., & Berryman, M. (2006). Culture speaks: Cultural relationships and classroom learning. 

The thought of this actually broke my heart like how is if fair for peoples culture to be judged and someone else to have defined who they think the are?!


]]> 2023-08-22 12:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668706583 Colonial gaze in education and Playwork sites and Colonisation kyeishajanecollistershaw1 https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668737140 this session had me extremely confused and it definitely did not help that i was sick, with this session i am still left wondering what is the Colonial Gaze and how is it relevant to early childhood education and care?..

this session we were also shown a bit more into play work sites, we learnt about the mini maddern pop up play space we learnt about Mini-Maddern and how it is about children and families making connections to the community in Footscray and surrounding suburbs and that It's also about children making connection to place and coexisting in a space where everyone has access to those connections this was a really good video to watch before heading to our own pop up play space on the saturday it was really inspiring to see what has come out of other students bring loose parts to their own pop up play space!]]> 2023-08-22 12:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668737140 Documenting as an ethical and political practice Making Learning Visible Ethics of documenting young people kyeishajanecollistershaw1 https://padlet.com/kyeishajanecollistershaw1/8tl7lnbn0jpdg39q/wish/2668742562 Session 5 was by far definitely one of my favorites, we just come back online after doing our own little pop up play space in watton street Weribee and i learnt what it means to be "a ninja" - After witnessing a few of my classmates being ninjas at our pop up play space I could see that the children were to involved in what they were doing to take much notice of the tool or toy that was dropped into their play, some of them noticed the person drop it and then grabbed it straight away to use, others either didn’t take notice of it until later when they looked around there space again or didn’t notice it at all, there was one little girl who didn’t see the thing one of my classmates dropped for a good few minutes then she took a look around the space again and saw it and kind of gave a ‘where did that come from’ look and then shrugged and completely ignored it as she didn’t think she needed that for her current play. After seeing this I can see that you watch the child’s play for a bit and if You think there is something else the child could do with then you go quietly drop it near the child without saying a word because some children obviously see you drop something and then walk off without saying a word they are intrigued by what they can do using the thing you have placed other children take notice of the item you drop and shrug it off like’ nah I don’t think I need that in my play right now. 
it may be what you think the child needs however a child might not think that what you think the could use is what they need in their current play and other times yes for sure being a ninja works out great and a child does exactly what you thought the would do or even better they shock you by doing something completely different

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