Concrete numeracy, spatial games, and movement-rich math that connect concepts to sensory play without repetitive table drills.
From Jakarta to Melbourne: What My 5-Year-Old’s Drawings Taught Me About Early EAL Learning | EarlyChildhoodEduNet From Jakarta to Melbourne: What My Five-Year-Old’s Kindergarten Drawings Taught Me About Early EAL Learning The rain in Melbourne hits the tin roof differently than it does in Jakarta. In Jakarta, downpours are loud, warm, and brief, a sudden…
How to Stop Writing a Separate Plan for Every Kid | EarlyChildhoodEduNet For Teachers How to Stop Writing a Separate Plan for Every Kid On the exhausting maths of writing twenty different lesson plans for one afternoon. The maths that never worked Early in my two years working across childcare centres in Melbourne’s east, I…
How to Bring Play-Based Learning In Without Losing Structure | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Story-Based Learning How to Bring Play-Based Learning In Without Losing Structure On why play and structure keep getting treated as opposites, when they’re not. Play-based learning gets misread two different ways, and both miss the point. One version pictures kids just wandering around a…
The Storytelling Wheel: A Simple Template for Narrating Stories | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Story-Based Learning The Storytelling Wheel: A Simple Template for Narrating Stories On blank-page freeze, and why a little structure helps a story come out. Ask a small child to “tell me a story” and you’ll usually get one of two things. Either dead silence,…
How to Build Literacy Skills Without the Drill-and-Kill Feeling | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Story-Based Learning How to Build Literacy Skills Without the Drill-and-Kill Feeling On repetition, why it stops working, and what to do instead. You’ve probably seen it happen. A child traces the letter A once, cheerfully. By the third time in the same sitting, the…