So What Are Planning Stories?
Planning stories are a new way of documenting planning - a planning story is a story about all the learning stories.
A planning story is written retrospectively (All together, looking back) capturing:
- Rapid planning that happens throughout the day as teachers respond intuitively to children's thinking and ideas (often the unexpected.)
- Forward planning as teachers respond collaboratively to what they notice (the planned).
- Documentation that is indicative of the planning that happens in the setting (ie a story of many).
Planning stories:
- Tell the story of how the focus came about - start at the beginning
- Involve the learning stories and photos that tell a story - there may be a combination of teacher's, children's and parent's stories.
- Reflect on the provocation and thinking that may have taken place.
- Involve teacher's evaluations and reflections, parent's comments, children's comments, teacher's comments on pedagogy, links to Te Whariki and links to theory and research.
Below are three sample pages taken from a nursery planning story.
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