Week 3 Reflection

 I learned a lot during week 3 about documentation that will help me in my future classroom. Documentation is a dynamic record of child progress. There are two different formats of documentation. The first format is documentation panels. The purpose of documentation panels is to showcase how and what your classroom children are learning. The second format of documentation is portfolios. Portfolios are purposeful and systematic collections of evidence of a child's work and learning. It is collected over time. We also learned about Reggio Emilia and the project approach. 

The Reggio Emilia approach and the project approach allow for a projects over a long period of time that demonstrate the learning. The conventinal style only shows how far they have come but not their thinking behind it, The conventianal is used for the teachers and parents while the project based is used for the children. The convential documentation is more of a formative assessment while the Reggio Emilia and project approach are more summative. 

I think that as a future teacher I will want to use the project approach in my classroom. I think that it allows the children to be able to better understand what we are doing in class by actually participating in the project. I also think that I would like to make portfolios for the children in my future classroom. I think it would be fun to see how far the children come in the span of the year. I think it would be a great thing to send home at the end of the year to show parents how much their child has grown over the school year! I definetly want to include this in my future classroom. 

Example of portfolio: