EY Connect - May issue 2024
Morning everyone Keep your wellies and umbrella with you this week, it looks like it'll be a rainy one! ☔ 1 REFLECTION I've been thinking a lot about time. Especially nearer the end of term, a lot of conversations I've been having with educators are around time - the lack of, the slipping away of, the constraints of. It has always been a tricky layer in education. Educators make time for what they value. What you see happening in classrooms is a direct reflection of the values, beliefs, and culture that is cultivated in that space. However, teachers' autonomy over their use of time does seem to decrease as we move up year levels, as whole school timetabling trumps the individual teacher's preference for when and how long their children engage in playful learning. Recently, both Shelley Moore and Fiona Zinn have got me thinking about possibilities when we reframe time as rhythms. The topic of rhythms offers a generous and fertile space for our consideration - it n...