Linsey Hood

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Beginnings

– How I view my practice at the start of my current training –

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What I enjoy about working with young children

I love watching children's minds and imaginations come alive when they are interacting with their surrounding environments. It is especially rewarding observing them discover new learning for the first time.

How would I describe my role, in a nutshell

My role is to support practitioners in nurseries and early primary realise their full potentials by helping them to reflect, discover and improve while growing and learning myself.

When and how MY PRACTICE is most child-centred

Part of my role is to support practitioners and teachers reflect on their interactions, experiences and spaces to ensure that they are child centred. Every resource available is carefully placed and linked to observations of children's interests and development. I personally enjoy playing alongside children on their own terms and helping them to discover new learning.

The ways and extent to which my setting's ENVIRONMENT, MATERIALS and PROCEDURES are child-centred

I encourage each of my settings to reflect deeply on their environments to ensure that each resource, interaction and experience is linked back to an interaction or observation of a child. I encourage practitioners to allow children to be free to use and move materials around the environment to help them meet their goals

How children PARTICIPATE in shaping the environment, structures, rhythms and policies of my setting - or my own day-to-day role

Children should be free to explore any part of the environment as they wish. Their ideas through discussion and observation about how the environment should look and what it should have always come from the children.

How Froebel/Froebelian thinking informs or inspires my practice today (if at all)

I am a deep believer in children learning and discovering at their own pace. Practitioners should consider the holistic needs of each child when setting up interactions, experiences and spaces. Resources should be open ended to foster creativity and learning.

How an awareness of social justice impacts on my practice

All children have the right to play and all children have the right to an education. Children's rights are a fundamental aspect of my practice. The spaces and experiences which i try to create with the children and for the children help all children to discover and learn.

What I hope to learn or strengthen in my practice going forward from today

A deeper understanding of Froebelian practice and being able to transfer this knowledge and understanding to make a positive difference to the children I teach.

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Learning journal

Reflections on my developing practice over the three stages of learning: Beginnings, Becomings and Recent.

Beginnings Becomings Recent