Module 2: Rethinking Learning and Practice
Dialogue with Children
You can talk with children about the ideas and thoughts from your pedagogical narrations. By discussing and remembering the moment, children’s thinking is extended. This is what is meant by “co-constructing knowledge” with children.
Expanding an Idea
Suggest ideas so that you do not impose your ideas on the children, but truly recognize the children and their efforts. Try to see the child through new eyes. The challenge is to really listen and get to know a child, and not to maintain your current ideas of who that child is. By carefully and intentionally noticing children and what they do, you may wonder at what they believe they are seeing and hearing.
