Thinking points How would you describe your relationships with children? Think about how you go about building a genuine relationship with a child and their family - what do you do? Are there specific strategies that you use or does it “just happen”? How do you make sure that child gets to experience a positive relationship with their educators? give some definition to the kind of relationships that Team meeting notes are most effective in supporting children’s learning. Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships should Related to our tendency to take relationships for underpin everything that we do. Because relationships granted is the assumption that relationships will are so much a part of our everyday practice we simply happen naturally. In some cases this is true, but sometimes take them for granted. It can be a in others we need to put in a lot of work to make worthwhile exercise to actually discuss, the kind of relationships happen. Without careful thought and relationships that you want to have in your service. planning it is unlikely that every child will experience Everyone’s idea of a relationship will differ. It “good” the kind of relationships that we would want for is only through talking those differences that we them. This highlights the importance of thinking about can reach agreement about how we want to work how we actively plan for relationships to occur. with the children in our care. The value of words like respectful and reciprocal” is that they help to “secure,
Thinking points How would you describe your relationships with children? Think about how you go about building a genuine relationship with a child and their family - what do you do? Are there specific strategies that you use or does it “just happen”? How do you make sure that child gets to experience a positive relationship with their educators? Team meeting notes Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships should underpin everything that we do. Because relationships are so much a part of our everyday practice we sometimes take them for granted. It can be a worthwhile exercise to actually discuss, the kind of relationships that you want to have in your service. Everyone’s idea of a “good” relationship will differ. It is only through talking those differences that we can reach agreement about how we want to work with the children in our care. The value of words like “secure, respectful and reciprocal” is that they help to give some definition to the kind of relationships that are most effective in supporting children’s learning. Related to our tendency to take relationships for granted is the assumption that relationships will simply happen naturally. In some cases this is true, but in others we need to put in a lot of work to make relationships happen. Without careful thought and planning it is unlikely that every child will experience the kind of relationships that we would want for them. This highlights the importance of thinking about how we actively plan for relationships to occur.
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