Archive Project: Extending Language through Provocations and Artefacts

Project Description

In this WEAVE workshop practitioners and teachers are introduced to open-ended materials that can inspire children to draw on their intelligence and creativity to invent new and original ideas. The way materials are arranged can strongly affect decisions that we make about how to use them. Open-ended materials in our classrooms create a trigger for the imagination.

This way of working enables children to communicate ideas and feelings, make connections, work together, innovate and solve problems.

Through supporting the children's explorations we can learn about whom our children are their fascinations, interests and skills. Valuing children as creative innovators and independent thinkers.

Documenting the process and learning taking place by transcribing chiildren's words and conversations taking photos and video keeping journals, to be used not only as evidence of children's learning but also as a tool for relection, discussion and hypothesesing.

 

Quotes

"I would like to use this process with mums and dads to let them have fun and to further their understanding of how children Play and learn." Bell Green CC

 

"I can see the effectiveness of using objects that children would not normally play with, a range of objects that would not normally be grouped together firing the imagination and everyone was able to join in." Newbold Riverside CC