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Building a Community of Practice The Learning Caravan aims to build a community of practice among early childhood practitioners to support best practices in early childhood care & education. Join fellow early childhood practitioners in dialogue to share reflections  & insights in support of best practices in early childhood care and education! CPD Programmes in Singapore   The talks cum dialogue sessions would be facilitated by invited guests who are advocates for best practices in early childhood education. Be a part of our growing community of learners! Attend our Practitioner Talks! CPD Programmes (International) The Theme For Our Focus Study Groups in 2016 More information on the study groups Comments by Participants Subscribe  to our E-Newsletter to receive latest updates on our continuing professional development programmes and other early childhood news. Official W...

We hosted a DIY cum sharing session on block play at a local childcare centre.  The session facilitated by Alyna Chong was attended by a group of early childhood educators and parents.  Alyna started the session with a brief introduction on block play.  She asked and encouraged the attendees to share personal experiences of block play as a child. Alyna talked about provocations in the block play area.  One of the educators, Grace Victoria shared that the block play area in her room was visited by primarily boys.  She wondered if there are ways to make the block play area appealing to the children in her classroom. Alyna suggested adding soft fabric, toys such as cars & trucks, animals as well as personal photographs of people familiar to the children to the block play area. The attendees brought their own wooden blocks and used the acrylic paints provided by The Learning Caravan to decorate the blocks in bright colours.  A couple of att...

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Hello Members, We have been invited to attend an Educator Forum at Canadian International School's Lakeside campus in Singapore. The forum will be held on the 30th of November 2015 Monday at 9am .  It is planned for an hour.  There would be representatives from a variety of universities and early childhood centers attending.  The focus of the forum is on the CIS Kindergarten and their newly appointed Outdoor Discovery Center and to provide the early childhood community an opportunity to share research in best practice and enter into educational conversations regarding education for the benefit of all. Please let me know via email to thelearningcaravan@gmail.com by  30th September 2015  if you would like to attend. Please provide your name, your organization's name and the position you hold in organization. Alyna Chong Official Website www.thelearningcaravan.net Blog www.thelearningcaravan.blogspot.com Facebook www.fa...

{Throwback 2014} This was a sharing session facilitated by Shanti, an early childhood practitioner who had returned from a study group in Reggio Emilia.  Shanthi shared her reflections of the study group and facilitated discussion among the attendees about principles of the Reggio Emilia approach that could be incorporated into their practice. The session was attended by several educators in Singapore.