Del Costello also runs professional development in Storytelling through the Early Childhood Council in two-hour online sessions. If you have missed these workshops, please contact events@ecc.org.nz to purchase the recordings. ● Develop resources, provocations and artifacts that connect to the stories you know ● Notice what tamariki are interested in and research stories that connect to them ● Read the current research around the efficacy of storytelling in an Aotearoa NZ ECE context ● Work with your team to uncover and connect with local stories ● Plan for storytelling to be part of everyday in your centre ● Observe and extend the storytelling capabilities of tamariki as an explicit early literacy skill HOW CENTRE LEADERS CAN GET STARTED ● Document storytelling as an important aspect of your local curriculum ● Connect with the community to learn more about their stories and the stories that reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of your place ● Provide learning opportunities for kaiako to grow their skills ● Develop and resource kete of stories, provocations and artifacts that reflect and support the stories that are important to your community and whānau ● Support kaiako through teacher inquiry to grow and embed these practices ● Become a centre with storytelling at its heart. About Del Costello Del Costello is the director and lead facilitator of Coactive Education. Based in Tamaki Makaurau, Coactive Education provides professional development support, resource design and development, coaching, and mentoring. Coactive Education is a partnership-based collective of professionals who works alongside kaiako, leaders, and community stakeholders to build connected, real, and long-lasting local curriculum. We reach out and collaborate with important organisations like the Early Childhood Council and our work extends to multiple panels in the Ministry of Education and beyond. Our kaupapa is about working in partnership with the important people in educational settings - tamariki, whānau, mana whenua, the community, the environment, researchers and the educators. We believe that, 'everything you need is in the room,' you might just need some support to uncover it and make it accessible for all. Learn local! For more information about Coactive Education, go here, www.coactiveeducation.com Photo credits: Te Uho o te Nikau December 2023 { 24 }
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