Blog 12: Discuss the importance of documentation to teaching and to a child's learning. What are the challenges of documentation to the classroom teacher? What are some strategies that would help address these challenges?
Documentation helps the kids and the parents see that you are paying attention. It reminds us as instructors to listen to the students. It puts more emphasis on the process than the product. I think to document well, you need to have a good idea of what you want to achieve.
I like the idea of keeping notes. It doesn’t take that long to scribble down a bit of information on what the kids are doing. I like the digital camera idea, but with small children, that could go wrong quickly. Particularly if the camera is on a tripod, it could get damaged quite easily. The audio idea (a tape recorder) is a good one, but it limits you to only audio information. If the camera can be kept safe, video recording would be the best way to go.
I like the idea of child artifacts; keeping their work to document from it. Especially as a teacher, this would be a good way to evaluate and mark the project, and then give it back to the child. I think getting another person to document is probably the best idea of all. If there is a teacher’s aide or parent helper, that would be the best way to document because they could take pictures or video, there would be no risk to the equipment.
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