AISWA Leadership Breakfasts - The Power of Story 2

Description

AISWA have planned eight early childhood leaders breakfast mornings over the year, each with a focussed topic of conversation and a guest speaker. Our goal is to build awareness and facilitate discussion around key understandings relating to early childhood education.  

This session will examine the place of story in children's and young people's lives and that reading quality literature is a means of developing successful and productive futures. The presentation and discussion will focus on the notion that 'the more young people read, the more they see the world through others eyes' and that this has the greatest potential for a better world. The session will draw on the work of authors and illustrators to put the proposition that story telling is a uniquely human trait. This, alongside the OECD's research regarding the trends shaping education, places literature as essential to young people’s learning and the development of dispositions essential for productive lives. Practical examples of ways into deep questioning will be shared. The voice of students will also feature. A focus will be the co-constructed learning developed by students with teachers which has the effect of high student engagement.

Each attendee will receive a picture book.