Observation and Documentation

Documentation is the process that allows “pedagogy of listening” to be placed and held for consideration by others; it lifts thinking out of the stream of lived experience in education and makes it visible.
(Carol Anne Wien, 2008)

Please see below to access resources and materials designed to support educators to develop an effective observation and documentation program.

Video Series

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Observation and Documentation		MP4

Introduction		MP4

What can observation and documentation look like and sound like?		MP4

How are educator teams rethinking ways of observing and documenting, and analyzing the documentation?		MP4

The power of documentation: FDELK teams reflect on how they work together to use observation and analysis of documentation to plan learning.		MP4

How do the observations inform learning?		MP4

What practices related to observing and documenting and analysing documentation are educator teams repeating? The FDELK teams are incorporating the Principles of Universal Design for Learning (EDL) and Differentiated Learning		MP4

Making thinking and learning visible: the importance of listening to children.		MP4

How does listening inform learning and make it visible? How do children co-construct the learning?		MP4

Reflections on documenting learning and making learning visible.		MP4

Listening in on children’s reflections and classroom documentation.		MP4

Reflections on a journey: documenting and making learning visible.		MP4

Engaging families in observation, documentation and making learning visible.		MP4

One parent’s reflection on how learning is made visible through documentation.		MP4

How will your educator teams make thinking and learning visible through observation and documentation?		MP4

Transcripts This document contains a transcript of all of the video segments in this series.	PDF

Viewer Guide Viewer Guide includes descriptions of the videos and reflective questions for before, during and after viewing.	PDF