Document A Child’s Learning Trajectory Through Either The Use Of A Learning Story Or An Eportfolio. Implications For The Child And The Family: Early Childhood Teaching & Learning Assignment, MU, Ireland

Document a child’s learning trajectory through either the use of a Learning Story or an Eportfolio.

• Implications for the child and the family
• The educator’s role in the process
• The efficacy of the means of documentation
• Implications for current practice
• Children as reflective decision-makers

Discuss the benefits and challenges of the use of Learning Stories and Eportfolios as a method of documenting children’s learning

• The advantages and disadvantages of both methods of documentation
• How children’s agency is reflected in both
• How family and community can be reflected in both
• Which, if either, would be more beneficial to your current practice? Why?