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COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES

I have been part of a collaborative teaching team over the past 10 years as an RECE in an Early Learning Kindergarten Program, in Wellington County. I have had the opportunity to be part of a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) with the Kindergarten teams at my site in 2015. We worked on a project that involved investigating if allowing children to document their own learning would increase the student engagement in the classroom. The group sat down to discuss possible inquiry methods and models and an evaluation and assessment criteria to determine the project's effectiviness. I have more recently been involved in the delivery of the IB World School, International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program development, through the early stages, with a school in Wellington County. This work has included collaboration of a six member kindergarten team over the development, implementation and designed plan of an early learning program that incorporates both the Ontario Kindergarten Program and the IB PYP curricula design, into engaging philosopy based programming. Over the summer months of 2019, I have completed a field placement component of the Early Learning Resource Consulting program through a Conestoga/Seneca College partnership program. I have had the priveledged experience to work with KW Habilitation Services in Kitchener-Waterloo Region. During this placement, I contributed to an Early Learning Service Plan, worked along side parents and professionals to collaboratively contribute to the inclusion of children with diverse abilities. I sat on transdiciplinary team meetings and contributed to the support plans for children. I used an Inclusion Index to observe an early learning environment to provide feedback and enhancements to support the team and inclusive practices of the centre in which it was applied. I have included some examples of my work in the RC role so far.

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Ton French
Aug 8, 2019
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Updated: Aug 9, 2019

Hello everyone!!

I came into this work to change the world and help people. I still feel like the way to change the future is by properly supporting our present (children). We can make an effective change by raising and supporting our children and families in a supportive and holistic manner. Do I know exactly what this looks like? NO. What I do know, is that if we don't build up and support our great minds, from birth until adulthood, they will not survive to thrive. We need to support our "out of the box thinkers" to be more than just really effcient factory workers and give them the tools to discover how they can be more! I want to find or create the platform to make learning and discovery accessible to all types of thinkers and at every level of thought. Only together can we create the shift to the change our world and country needs

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