Kei Tua o te Pae
Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars is a best-practice guide that will help teachers continue to improve the quality of their teaching.
The exemplars are a series of books that will help teachers to understand and strengthen children's learning. It also shows how children, parents and whānau can contribute to this assessment and ongoing learning.
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Child: Kian
Date: 5/6
Writer: Sue
A Learning Story
Taking an Interest
Kian is on a resonance board surrounded by rattly things and a blue cheerleader's pompom. The gold mobile is hanging above him within reach. Kian is enjoying touching the pompom and the strands of the gold mobile. He has his boots on but is not making any movement with his legs to make noise contact with the board.
I start to stimulate some movement by creeping my fingers down his leg from the hip and finish with l…
Teacher: Jo
We have a new primary caregiver within the centre.
Welcome to Issy. Issy’s new role is taking responsibility for our young friend Jimmy who is five months old. Sitting comfortably in his chair, he had not long had his bottle when he began growling with a windy tummy. Issy heard this and went over to see if he was okay. She lent a hand by rocking his small chair back and forth and he soon smiled at her. She’d noticed he’d had a spill. Issy moved towards the kitchen sink, grabbing a…
Child: Samuel
26 March
Daphne has been helping us at kindergarten today. We are getting much better at singing our Chinese song. Samuel has drawn a picture. Daphne tells me it is about one of his favourite Chinese stories. I wrote the story down as she told it to me and we discussed ways in which we could use the story in our programme.
What next?I think we could look for more opportunities for Samuel to represent and tell his favourite story.
24 April
Daphne told me some more details of th…
Child: Jake
Teacher: Shelley
Date: 6 June
Jake arrived, walking up the ramp, saying he would like to do a survey on bags. He came to me and we talked about how he would need to go about this. Jake thought this topic was a good idea for a survey as he didn’t have to ask anyone any questions!!
Jake had a clipboard and worked on the yellow table. He drew bags and coloured them. “Look, this one doesn’t have a handle,” he said.
I asked if he was going to include multicoloured bags. Jake explaine…
Date: 20 September
Teacher: Karla
Well, Jack, you really seemed to enjoy yourself today. It was your first painting experience here at daycare, but I’m sure there will be many more to come!! You started off a little perplexed, wondering just what to do with this strange looking stuff, but it didn’t take long before you were in there boots ’n’ all!!
Jack, you showed us today that painting is really a three step process ...
You start off looking nice and clean and tidy, with paper, a brush in…
Last week one of the children brought in this skeleton that they had found at the beach. I showed it to Leo and asked him if he had any ideas about what sort of skeleton it might be. “Maybe a flying fish?” was Leo’s initial thought, but after a closer inspection we both decided that it could not be a fish as it had what looked like nostril holes at the top of its beak. I thought it might be a penguin and the only way to find this out was to have a look in some of our books. We soon discovered it…
Sandra’s story
“Look, look, look, look!” shouted Joey, excitedly waving his hands in front of my face. “What? What? What?” I jumped up to see just what was so amazing.
“Look!” exclaimed Joey, pointing up to the sky.
Well, what a sight! The most amazing cloud formation had formed. Stripey clouds were whizzing in the opposite direction to large, white, fluffy ones. Spectacular!
“Quick, go and tell Jill – she’ll love them,” I told Joey.
I then called the children to the hill, and we all lay on…
Child's name: Campbell
Date: 28 June
Teacher: Carol
A Learning Story
Belonging
Mana whenua
Taking an Interest
Campbell delights in pulling objects out of the supervisor's bag (rolls, verification forms, and so on). He opens the books carefully for an eighteen-month-old. He scans the pages and, if he manages to find a pen (crayons are of little interest), he will hold the pen correctly and write small, precise symbols.
So as not to deter Campbell's interest in books…
Child's name: Jesse
Date: 3 September
Teacher: Wendy
Examples or cues
A Learning Story
Belonging
Mana whenua
Taking an Interest
Finding an interest here – a topic, an activity, a role. Recognising the familiar, enjoying the unfamiliar. Coping with change.
Jesse: At your centre, did you have sleep time?
Wendy: Yes, we did.
Jesse: Did you have mahi taonga time, too?
Wendy: No, we didn't have mahi taonga time. That is something special we do here.
Jesse: So the children can…
Child’s voice
“I put cheese on my pizza. I put some tomato sauce and some tomato. Me and my dad ate my pizza. It was yum.”
Fe‘ao said, “I just take the pizza home with my grandpa. My grandpa is coming over here.
I put the pizza in the box to come home.”
Parent’s voice
Learning story7 June Teacher: Karen
Today, Fe‘ao was working with his friend Sung Hyun. They have been collecting equipment from the shed. Sung Hyun called out to me to look at what they were doing. I went over to see what th…
Communication is one of Te Puawai's strongest points. Te Puawai's language skills have increased significantly since the beginning of the year.
She supports her language using non-verbal communication methods such as facial expressions and hand gestures. Her verbal communication is based on fifty words or more, using one-to-three-word utterances like "Ka haere ia'', "He inu māku", or "Pānui pukapuka".
She knows everybody's names at kōhanga and…
A learning story7 June
Today, Fred and I shared his story scrapbook together.
Fred signed “ball” when we were reading the page about him kicking the ball.
As I was reading, Fred was finishing the sentences.
There was lots of talk about what was happening in the pictures.
Ruby was standing close by, watching while I was reading. When I finished Fred's book, Ruby picked it up and started reading with him. In the picture opposite, you can see Ruby role-modelling the sign for “fish” a…
A learning storyWhenever I sit down to do work at the table Tiari always wants to be included.
She sees me and my husband working at the computer. Tiari can turn on the computer by herself and immediately moves the mouse (as she has seen us doing). Then she taps the keys on the keyboard. It’s a bit of a stretch for her, standing, but she manages and can just see the screen. Here is a sample of her work on the computer and writing with me.
Tiari also loves writing with pens. She sits beside me…
‘O le ‘āmataina lenā o le fauina o le fale ta‘avale. ‘Ua fāatutū i luga pou, ma tu‘u i ai laupapa e fola ai.
‘O lenā ‘ua o‘o i le fauina o le taualuga. Tu‘u i ai isi laupapa e ato ai.
‘Ua fa‘ai‘uina le gāluega, ‘ua tū mai le fale ta‘avale. ‘Ua fa‘asolo atu ta‘avale i totonu e fa‘amomoe.
‘O le faitoto‘a lenā e pito i luma e ō atu ai ta‘avale i totonu.
Name: Trujon‘O le tulimanu o poloka sa tā‘a‘alo ai Trujon ma tamaiti mātutua. Sā filifili mai na‘o laupapa lāpopo‘a muamua ma fa‘apito i…
Child: Tegan
Teacher: Jane
A learning story
Tegan sat down on the couch in the book area, bringing the guitar with her. She began to play the guitar and said, “It’s working, it’s working.”
I asked Tegan, “What’s working?”
“My playing – it’s working.”
“How do you know that it’s working?” I asked.
“The birds are moving. I played the guitar so they could dance.”
Short-term reviewTegan displayed a genuine interest in the new birds. She demonstrated this by wanting to play the guitar for them…
Date: 13 May
Teacher: Karla
What a fun afternoon we had today, Zach. Who would have thought that so much fun and laughter could have come from those yellow plastic reels?
It was lovely outside on the grass and you were enjoying a nice quiet cuddle when I introduced you to the reels. Together we stacked them up on top of each other, higher and higher until they wobbled. But before they could fall over on their own accord, you reached out and toppled them over yourself – then collapsed into a f…
Names: Koasigan and Cameron
18 November
Teacher: Lee
I found Koasigan and Cameron sitting on the floor together, viewing a book titled “How Your Body Works”. Cameron was turning the pages.
“Look at the funny hat,” said Cameron.
“Oh! That’s not a funny hat. It’s your brain. Your brain is for thinking,” said Koasigan in an informative manner.
“Look at this funny hat, too,” said Cameron.
“No, that’s your skull. It protects your brain. Stops it from being sandwiched,” said Koasigan.
Short-te…
JulySome round stickers were the inspiration for Grace to create a bus
Step 1
Grace stuck the circles on each side and selected a green crayon to draw windows.
“It’s the Orbiter,” she decided.
Step 2
Grace used her wonderful hand-eye co-ordination to hammer a lid on the roof.
Step 3
Grace chose red paint. “It’s the red bus,” she said. “It’s the coloured bus.” She very carefully applied the red paint all over her bus.
Step 4
There was a container of black leftover messy gloop. Grace ca…
