Shanghai American School (SAS) is a proud partner with Chapters International - a leading professional learning provider. This weekend workshop is presented by Anne Van Dam. This workshop invites educators and leaders to deepen their understanding of documentation as a reflective, research-driven practice that reveals the richness of children’s thinking and relationships. Moving beyond record-keeping, we will explore how documentation fosters curiosity, critical reflection, and collaborative meaning-making among educators, children, and families.
- Articulate the distinction between documentation and record-keeping, and explain how documentation enriches understanding of children’s competencies, inquiry processes, creativity, and social relationships.
- Know how to analyze traces of children’s learning to uncover deeper conceptual dimensions and plan for experiences that extend children’s inquiries.
- Identify strategies to embed documentation as a shared, dialogic practice within teams.
- Develop approaches for leaders and educators to foster a reflective culture of documentation, including systems, roles, and structures that sustain collaborative reflection and professional growth.
Child centred learning has been Anne's passion for more than 25 years. Anne has worked in schools in the Netherlands, China, Singapore and Switzerland, where she took on various positions such as team leader, PYP coordinator and director. Anne used to work at the Canadian International School (Singapore) where she was part of the team that took the school to IB authorisation Anne has been an IB workshop leader since 2005, sharing her passion for young children and play with educators in international schools.
For more information and registrating, please visit the Chapters International website here.